Spot Forecast
Issued by NWS Charleston, WV
Issued by NWS Charleston, WV
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Spot Forecast for Highland Fire...WV-NRP
National Weather Service Charleston WV
659 PM EST Wed Nov 6 2024
Forecast is based on forecast start time of 0600 EST on November 07.
If conditions become unrepresentative, contact the National Weather
Service.
.DISCUSSION...
Breezy southwesterly winds will continue to subside this evening
across the area. Winds become light tonight and on Thursday,
shifting northerly with cold frontal passage on Thursday.
Precipitation associated with this front will remain generally
light, with best chances for a wetting rain expected across
southeast Ohio and the Mid Ohio Valley region, with less of a chance
for a wetting rain expected across the southern coal fields and
southwest Virginia. The chance for a wetting rain across the southern coal
fields and southwest Virginia is around 30 percent on average.
Drier conditions take hold for Friday and Saturday, along with light
winds. Rain looks to return to the area towards the end of the week
and into the new work week.
.THURSDAY...
Sky/weather.........Mostly cloudy (70-80 percent). Chance of rain
showers in the morning and early afternoon,
then slight chance of rain showers early in the
afternoon.
CWR.................28 percent decreasing to 18 percent early in
the morning, then increasing to 36 percent late
in the morning decreasing to 22 percent early
in the afternoon decreasing to 7 percent.
Chance of pcpn......30 percent.
LAL.................1.
Max temperature.....Around 65.
Min humidity........84 percent.
Wind (20 ft)........Light winds becoming northwest around 5 mph
early in the afternoon, then becoming light
late in the afternoon.
Mixing height.......1300 ft AGL.
Transport winds.....West 1 to 3 mph shifting to the northwest 5 to
6 mph in the afternoon.
LVORI...............7.
ADI.................1 to 9.
Haines Index........3 or very low potential for large plume
dominated fire growth.
TIME (EST) 6AM 7AM 8AM 9AM 10A 11A 12P 1PM 2PM 3PM 4PM 5PM
Sky (%).........61 65 74 71 73 77 85 83 84 84 85 83
Weather cov.....CHC CHC CHC CHC CHC CHC CHC CHC SCH
Weather type....RW RW RW RW RW RW RW RW RW
Tstm cov........
CWR.............30 20 10 20 30 30 40 20 10 10 0 0
Chc of pcpn (%).30 40 30 40 40 50 50 40 20 10 10 10
LAL.............1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
Temp............59 59 60 61 62 63 64 64 65 65 64 62
RH..............95 96 96 96 96 94 92 91 87 84 84 87
20 FT wind dir..W W W W W NW NW NW NW N N N
20 FT wind spd..1 1 1 1 2 2 3 5 5 3 3 3
20 FT wind gust.4 4 4 5 6 6 7 7 7 8 7 7
Mix hgt (kft)...0.4 0.4 0.4 1.1 1.2 1.1 1.2 1.2 1.3 1.3 1.2 1.1
Transp wind dir.W W W W W W NW NW NW N N N
Transp wind spd.1 1 1 1 2 3 5 6 6 6 5 5
LVORI...........9 9 9 8 8 6 6 5 5 4 4 5
ADI.............1 1 1 2 4 5 7 8 9 9 7 6
Haines index....3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3
.THURSDAY NIGHT...
Sky/weather.........Mostly cloudy (75-85 percent). Slight chance of
rain showers overnight. Patchy fog overnight.
CWR.................5 percent.
Chance of pcpn......20 percent.
LAL.................1.
Min temperature.....Around 50.
Max humidity........100 percent.
Wind (20 ft)........Light winds.
Mixing height.......500 ft AGL.
Transport winds.....North 2 to 3 mph.
LVORI...............9.
ADI.................1 to 2.
Haines Index........4 to 6 or low to high potential for large plume
dominated fire growth.
TIME (EST) 6 PM 8 PM 10 PM MIDNGT 2 AM 4 AM
Sky (%).........84 79 85 77 77 77
Weather cov..... S CHC S CHC S CHC
Weather type....NONE NONE NONE RN/FG RN/FG RN/FG
Tstm cov........
CWR.............0 0 0 10 10 10
Chc of pcpn (%).10 10 10 20 20 20
LAL.............1 1 1 1 1 1
Temp............59 56 54 53 52 51
RH..............95 100 100 100 100 100
20 ft wind......N 2 N 2 N 1 N 1 N 1 N 1
20 ft wind gust.7 6 6 5 5 5
Mix hgt (ft)....700 1100 500 500 600 800
Transport wind..N 3 N 3 N 2 N 2 N 2 N 2
LVORI...........8 10 10 10 10 10
ADI.............2 2 1 1 1 1
Haines index....4 4 5 5 5 6
.FRIDAY...
Sky/weather.........Mostly cloudy (65-75 percent) then becoming
mostly sunny (25-35 percent).
CWR.................4 percent.
Chance of pcpn......10 percent.
LAL.................1.
Max temperature.....Around 60.
Min humidity........50 percent.
Wind (20 ft)........Light winds becoming northwest 5 to 6 mph late
in the morning.
Mixing height.......2400 ft AGL.
Transport winds.....Northwest 2 to 7 mph.
LVORI...............6.
ADI.................2 to 21.
Haines Index........4 to 6 or low to high potential for large plume
dominated fire growth.
TIME (EST) 6AM 7AM 8AM 9AM 10A 11A 12P 1PM 2PM 3PM 4PM 5PM
Sky (%).........82 85 75 64 54 44 35 26 21 17 12 11
Weather cov.....
Weather type....
Tstm cov........
CWR.............0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Chc of pcpn (%).10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10
LAL.............1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
Temp............51 51 52 54 56 57 58 59 60 60 59 56
RH..............100 99 95 90 84 75 66 59 54 50 50 54
20 FT wind dir..N NW NW NW NW NW NW NW NW NW NW NW
20 FT wind spd..2 2 2 3 3 5 5 6 6 6 6 5
20 FT wind gust.5 5 6 6 7 8 10 11 11 11 10 10
Mix hgt (kft)...0.6 0.6 0.9 1.2 1.6 1.9 2.3 2.4 2.4 2.3 2.0 1.5
Transp wind dir.N NW NW NW NW NW NW NW NW NW NW NW
Transp wind spd.2 2 3 3 5 6 6 7 7 7 7 7
LVORI...........10 10 8 6 4 4 3 2 2 2 2 2
ADI.............2 2 3 5 8 14 17 21 21 20 17 14
Haines index....6 6 6 5 5 5 5 4 5 5 5 5
$$
Forecaster...ARJ
Requested by...Tom Fielden
Type of request...WILDFIRE
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.DELDT 11/06/24
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.EMAIL Michelle_Q_Faherty@nps.gov,thomas_fielden@nps.gov