Click for Day 1 FireWX Areal Outline Product
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FNUS21 KWNS 020901
DAY 1 FIRE WEATHER OUTLOOK
NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK
0401 AM CDT WED AUG 02 2006
VALID 021200Z - 031200Z
...NO CRITICAL AREAS...
...SYNOPSIS...
UPPER HIGH WILL REMAIN ACROSS THE MUCH OF THE SERN CONUS CENTERED
OVER THE TN VALLEY...BUT AFFECTING MUCH OF THE AREA FROM THE SRN
PLAINS NEWD INTO THE OH VALLEY AND SRN NEW ENGLAND WITH HOT
TEMPERATURES. CLOCKWISE FLOW AROUND THE SURFACE HIGH OVER MUCH THE
SAME AREA WILL INDUCE MDT SLY AND SWLY WINDS...WITH MARGINALLY LOW
RH VALUES ACROSS THE SRN PLAINS WHERE DROUGHT PERSISTS.
ELSEWHERE...A WEAK TO MDT ZONAL FLOW REGIME WILL PERSIST ACROSS THE
NRN STATES...WITH A PROGRESSIVE SHORTWAVE TROUGH BRINGING STORMS
ACROSS THE GREAT LAKES INTO NEW ENGLAND. THE ZONAL FLOW WILL ALLOW
FOR DRY WLY FLOW ACROSS MT INTO THE WRN DAKOTAS. ISOLATED DRY
THUNDER IS POSSIBLE OVER ERN NV...WITH OTHERWISE WARM AND DRY
CONDITIONS PERSISTING OVER THE GREAT BASIN INTO CA.
...OK INTO N TX...
NEAR CRITICAL FIRE CONDITIONS WILL EXIST TODAY SOUTH OF A WEAK
SURFACE FRONT WHICH WILL EXTEND FROM THE KS TURNPIKE SWWD INTO NWRN
OK. VERY WARM...MODERATELY DRY...AND LOCALLY BREEZY CONDITIONS WILL
CONTINUE WITH SUSTAINED WIND SPEEDS AROUND 15 MPH...WITH SOME AREAS
GUSTING TO 20 MPH AT TIMES. WINDS OF 10-15 MPH WILL EXTEND SWD INTO
CENTRAL AND NRN TX...WHERE EXTREME DROUGHT CONDITIONS PERSIST. RH
LEVELS WILL NOT BE PARTICULARLY LOW...BUT WILL LIKELY DIP INTO THE
20-30 PERCENT RANGE MAINLY ALONG AND W OF I-35.
...ERN MT INTO WRN DAKOTAS...
SURFACE PRESSURE GRADIENT WILL BE RELATIVELY WEAK TODAY BUT WLY
ZONAL FLOW ALOFT AND HEATING WILL ALLOW FOR A FEW STRONGER WIND
GUSTS TO AROUND 15 MPH BY AFTERNOON. RH WILL DIP INTO THE 15-20
PERCENT RANGE WITH MODERATELY WARM TEMPERATURES IN THE 80S F.
..JEWELL.. 08/02/2006
...PLEASE SEE WWW.SPC.NOAA.GOV/FIRE FOR GRAPHIC PRODUCT...
Click for Day 2 FireWX Areal Outline Product
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FNUS22 KWNS 021019
DAY 2 FIRE WEATHER OUTLOOK CORR 1
NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK
0519 AM CDT WED AUG 02 2006
VALID 031200Z - 041200Z
CORRECTED FOR GRAPHICAL ERROR
...NO CRITICAL AREAS...
...SYNOPSIS...
OVERALL PATTERN WILL CHANGE LITTLE FROM DAY ONE. A SLIGHT
STRENGTHENING IN THE UPPER RIDGE WILL OCCUR OVER THE WRN CONUS WITH
WARMING TEMPERATURES AND MDT TO HIGH HAINES INDEX IN MANY AREAS. AN
AREA OF MOISTURE WILL SHIFT NWD ACROSS THE GREAT BASIN INTO NRN UT
AND SRN ID WITH A CHANCE OF AN ISOLATED LIGHTNING STRIKE THERE.
TO THE EAST...A FRONTAL BOUNDARY WILL STRETCH FROM THE OH VALLEY
SWWD INTO SRN OK/NRN TX...WITH INCREASED RH LEVELS N OF THIS
BOUNDARY. S OF THE BOUNDARY INTO N TX...IT WILL REMAIN QUITE WARM
BUT WITH WEAKER WINDS AS LOWER MS VALLEY SURFACE HIGH WEAKENS A BIT.
RH LEVELS WILL DROP ACROSS SRN AR INTO NWRN MS WITH VEERING SURFACE
WINDS DUE TO PASSAGE OF WEAK UPPER TROUGH TO THE NORTH.
FARTHER N...HIGH PRESSURE WILL SHIFT EWD OUT OF THE NRN PLAINS AND
INTO THE UPPER MS VALLEY...ALLOWING A RETURN OF SELY WINDS ACROSS
WRN SD/NEB.
...NRN TX EWD INTO SRN AR AND NWRN MS...
DROUGHT CONDITIONS PERSIST OVER THE ENTIRE AREA...IN PARTICULAR OVER
NRN TX AND NWRN MS/SERN AR WHERE VERY LITTLE RAIN HAS FALLEN
RECENTLY. THE HOT AND FAIRLY DRY AIR MASS OVER THE SRN PLAINS WILL
SHIFT NEWD DUE TO VEERING LOW LEVEL WINDS...WHICH WILL INCREASE
MIXING HEIGHTS/LOWER ATMOSPHERIC INSTABILITY AND DECREASE RH LEVELS
DURING THE AFTERNOON HOURS AS STRONG HEATING AND MIXING OCCURS. RH
LEVELS ACROSS NRN MS AND SRN AR WILL LIKELY BE LOWER THAN
FORECAST...WITH VALUES DIPPING BELOW 30 PERCENT WHILE SWLY WINDS
BLOW AT AROUND 10 MPH.
...WRN OREGON...
DIURNAL INCREASE IN PRESSURE GRADIENT WILL CAUSE NLY WINDS TO
DEVELOP W OF THE CASCADES WITH SPEEDS OF 15-20 MPH. RH WILL DROP
BELOW 30 PERCENT AT PEAK HEATING. MIXING HEIGHTS WILL NOT BE
PARTICULARLY DEEP THOUGH DUE TO MODIFIED-MARINE NATURE OF AIR MASS.
..JEWELL.. 08/02/2006
...PLEASE SEE WWW.SPC.NOAA.GOV/FIRE FOR GRAPHIC PRODUCT...