Click for Day 1 FireWX Areal Outline Product
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FNUS21 KWNS 230616
DAY 1 FIRE WEATHER OUTLOOK
NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK
0116 AM CDT WED JUL 23 2008
VALID 231200Z - 241200Z
...NO CRITICAL AREAS...
...SYNOPSIS...
AN UPPER SHORT WAVE TROUGH WILL MOVE EWD THROUGH ERN MT AND THE
DAKOTAS...WITH MAINLY WLY FLOW ACROSS MUCH OF THE PACIFIC NW IN A
POST FRONTAL REGIME FOLLOWING THIS SYSTEM. MEANWHILE...ANOTHER SHORT
WAVE TROUGH WILL QUICKLY MOVE EWD THROUGH WA/OR INTO ID BY LATE
AFTERNOON...INDUCING AFTERNOON THUNDERSTORMS AHEAD OF THE SYSTEM
ONCE AGAIN.
THE UPPER RIDGE WILL SLOWLY REBUILD BEHIND THIS...WITH HOT AND DRY
CONDITIONS ACROSS MUCH OF THE WEST. AFTERNOON THUNDERSTORMS WILL
ONCE AGAIN DEVELOP IN THE FOUR CORNERS REGION AND THE ERN GREAT
BASIN.
ACROSS PORTIONS OF THE CNTRL/HIGH PLAINS...WINDS WILL INCREASE BY
AFTERNOON IN RESPONSE TO INCREASING CONVERGENCE NEAR THE LEE OF THE
ROCKIES...ALTHOUGH RELATIVE HUMIDITIES ARE EXPECTED TO REMAIN ABOVE
CRITICAL THRESHOLDS. HOWEVER...THE DRIEST AREA JUXTAPOSED WITH
STRONG WINDS WILL LIKELY BE NEAR SERN CO/SWRN KS.
MEANWHILE IN MUCH OF THE EAST/SERN STATES...WIDESPREAD THUNDERSTORMS
WILL DEVELOP ONCE AGAIN.
...PORTIONS OF NERN UT/SWRN WY/NWRN CO...
THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP AHEAD OF A SHORT WAVE TROUGH OF LOW
PRESSURE BY LATE AFTERNOON. MOISTURE HAS DECREASED SOMEWHAT SINCE
YESTERDAY...AND GIVEN SATELLITE TRENDS IN PWAT AND WATER
VAPOR...EXPECT THAT STORMS THAT FORM IN THESE AREAS WILL TEND TO BE
DRIER AS OPPOSED TO AREAS FARTHER N AND E. ADDITIONALLY...DRY SLOT
OBSERVED ON THE BASE OF THE TROUGH ON WATER VAPOR IMAGERY THIS
MORNING WOULD TEND TO INDICATE ISOLATED COVERAGE OF STORMS IN THESE
AREAS. HOWEVER...STORMS THAT ARE ABLE TO FORM WILL BE CAPABLE OF
GUSTY AND ERRATIC WINDS IN ADDITION TO LIGHTNING STARTS.
...SERN CO/SWRN KS...
SLY WINDS WILL INCREASE THROUGHOUT MUCH OF THE HIGH PLAINS BY
AFTERNOON...WITH SUSTAINED SPEEDS NEAR 20 TO 25 MPH. DESPITE
TEMPERATURES CLIMBING INTO THE MID 90S...SURFACE RELATIVE HUMIDITIES
WILL BE SOMEWHAT MARGINAL...ALTHOUGH SOME AREAS MAY BRIEFLY DROP
INTO THE LOWER 20S.
..HURLBUT.. 07/23/2008
...PLEASE SEE WWW.SPC.NOAA.GOV/FIRE FOR GRAPHIC PRODUCT...
Click for Day 2 FireWX Areal Outline Product
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FNUS22 KWNS 230639
DAY 2 FIRE WEATHER OUTLOOK
NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK
0139 AM CDT WED JUL 23 2008
VALID 241200Z - 251200Z
...NO CRITICAL AREAS...
...SYNOPSIS...
IN GENERAL...A FLATTENING OF THE UPPER RIDGE WILL TAKE
PLACE...ALTHOUGH EMBEDDED SHORT WAVES WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE THROUGH
THE NRN MOST STATES.
HIGH PRESSURE ALOFT WILL SLOWLY BUILD ACROSS THE SWRN STATES EWD
INTO THE CNTRL AND SRN PLAINS...WITH HOT CONDITIONS PERSISTING.
GUSTY WINDS CAN BE EXPECTED IN THE AFTERNOON ON THE LEE OF THE
ROCKIES ONCE AGAIN...ALTHOUGH RELATIVE HUMIDITIES WILL REMAIN ABOVE
CRITICAL THRESHOLDS.
WET AFTERNOON THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO AFFECT THE FOUR CORNERS
REGION AND THE ERN GREAT BASIN.
MEANWHILE IN THE EAST...AN UPPER LOW WILL REMAIN N OF THE GREAT
LAKES...WITH WIDESPREAD THUNDERSTORMS IN THE ERN AND SERN STATES.
..HURLBUT.. 07/23/2008
...PLEASE SEE WWW.SPC.NOAA.GOV/FIRE FOR GRAPHIC PRODUCT...