Click for Day 1 FireWX Areal Outline Product
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FNUS21 KWNS 210618
DAY 1 FIRE WEATHER OUTLOOK
NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK
0118 AM CDT SUN MAR 21 2010
VALID 211200Z - 221200Z
...NO CRITICAL AREAS...
...SYNOPSIS...
UPPER LOW CENTERED NEAR THE ERN OK/TX BORDER AS OF 06Z WILL CONTINUE
A SLOW EWD PROGRESSION...REACHING NRN AL LATE IN THE PERIOD. THE
ASSOCIATED SURFACE COLD FRONT WILL SHIFT EWD AND MOVE
OFFSHORE...EXTENDING SWWD THROUGH SRN FL BY 12Z.
FOLLOWING THE UPPER LOW...UPPER RIDGING WILL DEAMPLIFY OVER THE
CENTRAL STATES...WHILE NLY/NWLY POST-FRONTAL FLOW CONTINUES ACROSS
THE SRN PLAINS. NEAR CRITICAL CONDITIONS WILL BE POSSIBLE ACROSS
PORTIONS OF CNTRL/SRN TX THIS AFTERNOON.
...CNTRL/SRN TX...
DRY AIR MASS REFLECTED ON UPSTREAM 00Z SOUNDINGS AT DRT/MAF/DFW WITH
PWAT GENERALLY A THIRD OF AN INCH OR LESS WILL DOMINATE THIS
AFTERNOON. TEMPERATURES WARMING INTO THE MID 50S TO MID 60S ACROSS
CNTRL/SRN TX...WITH LOWER 70S OVER FAR SRN TX...WILL ALLOW RELATIVE
HUMIDITIES TO DROP INTO THE MID TEENS TO MID 20S...EVEN TO THE
COAST. THE STRONGEST WINDS ARE ANTICIPATED ACROSS CNTRL TX...WITH
SUSTAINED SPEEDS NEAR 25 TO 30 MPH...WHILE SUSTAINED SPEEDS NEAR 15
TO 20 MPH WILL BE MORE COMMON FARTHER S. 24 HR PRECIPITATION
ANALYSIS SHOWS QUITE A BIT OF RAINFALL /NEAR .5 TO 1 INCH/ FELL
ACROSS MUCH OF TX YESTERDAY...WITH THE EXCEPTION OF FAR S...WHERE
THE LIGHTEST WIND SPEEDS ARE EXPECTED. THUS...THE FIRE THREAT WILL
LIKELY BE SOMEWHAT TEMPERED TODAY.
..HURLBUT.. 03/21/2010
...PLEASE SEE WWW.SPC.NOAA.GOV/FIRE FOR GRAPHIC PRODUCT...
Click for Day 2 FireWX Areal Outline Product
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FNUS22 KWNS 210656
DAY 2 FIRE WEATHER OUTLOOK
NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK
0156 AM CDT SUN MAR 21 2010
VALID 221200Z - 231200Z
...NO CRITICAL AREAS...
...SYNOPSIS...
AN UPPER TROUGH CENTERED ROUGHLY NEAR NRN AL WILL MOVE NEWD TOWARD
THE MID ATLANTIC. IN ITS WAKE...NEARLY ZONAL FLOW WILL AFFECT THE
CENTRAL STATES...WHILE A PACIFIC UPPER TROUGH MOVES EWD INTO THE
INTERMOUNTAIN WEST.
AT THE SURFACE...DRY CONDITIONS WILL PERSIST OVER THE SOUTHWESTERN
STATES AND INTO MUCH OF TX. ALTHOUGH WEAK LEE TROUGHING WILL DEVELOP
NEAR SERN CO/ERN NM IN RESPONSE TO WLY FLOW ALOFT...SURFACE WINDS
ARE ANTICIPATED TO REMAIN BELOW 20 MPH...TEMPERING THE FIRE THREAT.
..HURLBUT.. 03/21/2010
...PLEASE SEE WWW.SPC.NOAA.GOV/FIRE FOR GRAPHIC PRODUCT...