Showers around the metro area this morning since around 3:00 am MST. View from Wyant's webcam above was at 6:53 am. Composite radar below was at 7:05 am.
Plot of detected CG flashes (from Atmo and Vaisala) for 24-hours ending at 6:00 am this morning indicates no thunderstorms at all over southeastern quarter of state. No thunder with the morning showers - ALERT map below shows rainfall of 0.04" and greater during past 6-hours. Here at house we have had only about 0.02" but appears airport has had over half an inch.There were 6 reports of more than half an inch and two reports of over an inch - significant amounts considering there no reports of thunderstorms.
The 12 UTC 500 mb analysis (above from SPC) shows the cutoff low located about halfway between Phoenix and Albuquerque. The TWC morning sounding is below (also from SPC). Quite moist with some CAPE but with nasty inversion near 500 mb and light and variable winds in the saturated layer.
Probably a good day to take an 18 UTC special sounding to see what it's like, if the showers drift away to the northeast!
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