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DAY 1 FIRE WEATHER OUTLOOK
NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK
0255 AM CDT SAT APR 09 2011
VALID 091200Z - 101200Z
...EXTREMELY CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER AREA FOR ERN/SERN CO...FAR
WRN/SWRN KS...OK PANHANDLE...FAR NERN NM...
...CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER AREA FOR ERN CO...SWRN/S-CNTRL NEB...WRN
KS...WRN TX/OK...ERN/SRN NM...
...SYNOPSIS...
AN AMPLIFIED UPPER-LEVEL TROUGH IS FORECAST TO MOVE EWD ACROSS THE
GREAT BASIN AND INTERMOUNTAIN W TODAY...FAVORING LEE SIDE
CYCLOGENESIS OVER THE CNTRL HIGH PLAINS DURING THE AFTERNOON. AS
SURFACE LOW PRESSURE DEEPENS AND EMERGES ACROSS NEB/KS...A WARM
FRONT WILL LIFT NWD ACROSS THE LWR MO VALLEY REGION...WHILE A
DRYLINE MIXES EWD INTO WRN KS/OK AND NWRN TX.
...CNTRL/SRN HIGH PLAINS...
STRONG MIDLEVEL SWLYS /60-90 KT AT 500 MB...40-50 KT AT 700 MB/ ARE
FORECAST TO SPREAD NEWD ACROSS THE CNTRL/SRN HIGH PLAINS THIS
AFTERNOON ATOP A WARM SURFACE AIRMASS /ABOVE NORMAL TEMPERATURES
RANGING FROM THE 70S NEAR THE FRONT RANGE OF CO AND CNTRL MOUNTAINS
OF NM...TO 80S/90S OVER THE ADJACENT HIGH PLAINS/. GIVEN THE
JUXTAPOSITION OF MIN RH VALUES RANGING FROM 5-15 PERCENT...SUSTAINED
SURFACE WINDS FROM 30-40 MPH /WITH GUSTS POSSIBLY EXCEEDING 50
MPH/...AND ONGOING SEVERE DROUGHT...UPGRADED PORTIONS OF ERN/SERN
CO...FAR WRN/SWRN KS...THE OK PANHANDLE...AND FAR NERN NM TO
EXTREMELY CRITICAL.
S OF THE EXTREMELY CRITICAL AREA...WIDESPREAD HIGH END CRITICAL
CONDITIONS ARE LIKELY ACROSS MUCH OF ERN/SRN NM AND W TX...WHERE
WIND SPEEDS AOA 30 MPH OVER NM...TO 20-30 MPH IN TX WILL BE
COLOCATED WITH RH VALUES FROM 10-20 PERCENT IN NM TO 5-15 PERCENT IN
W TX. FARTHER N...DRY/BREEZY CONDITIONS ARE FORECAST TO SPREAD
ACROSS NERN CO...WRN KS...AND SWRN/S-CNTRL NEB AS SURFACE LOW
PRESSURE BEGINS TO EMERGE OVER THE CNTRL HIGH PLAINS. RH VALUES IN
THE TEENS AND WIND SPEEDS IN EXCESS OF 20 MPH APPEAR PROBABLE ACROSS
THE AREA...WHICH WILL SUPPORT A CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER THREAT GIVEN
DEVELOPING LONG TERM DRYNESS/DROUGHT.
..GARNER.. 04/09/2011
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