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Spot Forecast for Cornfield Fire...Region 51 EM
National Weather Service North Platte NE
450 PM CDT Mon Jun 17 2024

Forecast is based on forecast start time of 1600 CDT on June 17.
If conditions become unrepresentative...contact the National Weather
Service.

Please contact the NWS North Platte office at 308-532-0921 (or
at 1-800-603-3562) if you have any questions or concerns with this forecast.

.DISCUSSION...

Strong southeasterly winds gusting up to 30 mph will persist into
the evening hours. Winds will gradually veer to more southerly by
6-7pm CDT. Monitoring the potential for thunderstorms to move in
from the west-southwest around late afternoon and early evening.
Should this threat materialize, severe weather with large hail,
damaging winds, and frequent cloud to ground lightning can be
expected.

Early Tuesday morning, a wind shift is expected arrive with a
transition to more southwesterly then northwesterly winds. Gusts
through midday Tuesday will again climb to around 25 to 30 mph.
Overnight lows will fall into the middle to upper 60s with limited
humidity recovery in the 60 to 75 percent range. Cooler
temperatures are expected Tuesday afternoon with highs in the
upper 70s and afternoon humidity minimums around 35 percent.


.TONIGHT...

Sky/weather.........Partly cloudy. Chance of showers and
                    thunderstorms early in the evening, then slight
                    chance of showers and thunderstorms early in
                    the evening.
Min temperature.....Around 66.
Max humidity........73 percent.
Wind (20 ft)........Windy. South winds 25 to 32 mph with gusts to
                    around 43 mph shifting to the southwest around
                    25 mph early in the morning. Gusty and erratic
                    winds expected near thunderstorms early in the
                    evening.
Eye level winds.....Windy. South winds 15 to 19 mph with gusts to
                    around 26 mph shifting to the southwest around
                    15 mph early in the morning.
LAL.................3 decreasing to 2 early in the evening, then
                    decreasing to 1 in the late evening and
                    overnight.
Haines Index........5 moderate.

TIME (CDT)      6PM 7PM 8PM 9PM 10P 11P MID 1AM 2AM 3AM 4AM 5AM
Sky (%).........40  47  46  44  43  35  28  21  19  16  14  21
Weather cov.....CHC CHC SCH SCH
Weather type....RW  RW  RW  RW
Tstm cov........CHC CHC SCH SCH
LAL.............3   3   2   2   1   1   1   1   1   1   1   1
Temp............91  88  86  84  82  81  81  80  80  79  77  73
RH..............37  39  43  46  51  53  54  56  56  56  58  64
20 FT wind dir..S   S   S   S   S   S   S   S   S   S   S   SW
20 FT wind spd..25  26  28  29  30  31  32  32  31  30  28  25
20 FT wind gust.33  36  37  38  39  40  41  43  41  39  37  35
Eye lvl wnd dir.S   S   S   S   S   S   S   S   S   S   S   SW
Eye lvl wnd spd.15  16  17  17  18  19  19  19  19  18  17  15
Eye lvl wnd gst.20  22  22  23  23  24  25  26  25  23  22  21
Haines index....5   5   5   5   5   5   5   5   5   5   5   5

.TUESDAY...

Sky/weather.........Mostly sunny.
Max temperature.....Around 78.
Min humidity........31 percent.
Wind (20 ft)........Northwest winds 22 to 23 mph shifting to the
                    north 16 to 23 mph in the late morning and
                    afternoon.
Eye level winds.....North winds 10 to 14 mph.
LAL.................1.
Haines Index........3 to 5 or very low to moderate potential for
                    large plume dominated fire growth.

TIME (CDT)      6AM 7AM 8AM 9AM 10A 11A 12P 1PM 2PM 3PM 4PM 5PM
Sky (%).........28  35  33  30  27  24  21  19  19  20  20  25
Weather cov.....
Weather type....
Tstm cov........
LAL.............1   1   1   1   1   1   1   1   1   1   1   1
Temp............69  66  66  67  70  72  74  76  77  77  78  78
RH..............70  73  70  63  55  49  44  40  36  35  32  31
20 FT wind dir..W   NW  NW  NW  N   N   N   N   N   N   N   N
20 FT wind spd..23  22  22  22  23  22  21  20  18  17  16  16
20 FT wind gust.32  31  31  31  32  31  30  28  28  26  24  24
Eye lvl wnd dir.W   NW  NW  NW  N   N   N   N   N   N   N   N
Eye lvl wnd spd.14  13  13  13  14  13  13  12  11  10  10  10
Eye lvl wnd gst.19  19  19  19  19  19  18  17  17  16  14  14
Haines index....5   5   5   5   5   5   5   3   3   3   3   3

.TUESDAY NIGHT...

Sky/weather.........Partly cloudy then becoming mostly cloudy.
                    Chance of showers and thunderstorms in the
                    evening. Showers and thunderstorms likely
                    overnight.
Min temperature.....Around 54.
Max humidity........77 percent.
Wind (20 ft)........Northeast winds 12 to 17 mph. Gusty and erratic
                    winds expected near thunderstorms.
Eye level winds.....Northeast winds 7 to 10 mph.
LAL.................1 increasing to 3 in the evening, then
                    increasing to 4 overnight.
Haines Index........2 to 3 or very low.

TIME (CDT)      6 PM   8 PM   10 PM  MIDNGT 2 AM   4 AM
Sky (%).........31     42     54     66     71     71
Weather cov.....       CHANCE CHANCE CHANCE LIKELY LIKELY
Weather type....NONE   RNSHWR RNSHWR RNSHWR RNSHWR RNSHWR
Tstm cov........       CHANCE CHANCE CHANCE LIKELY LIKELY
LAL.............1      3      3      3      4      4
Temp............77     73     66     63     60     56
RH..............32     37     48     58     64     74
20 ft wind......N 17   NE 15  NE 12  NE 13  NE 14  NE 15
20 ft wind gust.25     22     15     17     21     22
Eye level wind..N 10   NE 9   NE 7   NE 8   NE 8   NE 9
Eye lvl wnd gst.15     13     9      10     13     13
Haines index....3      3      3      3      2      2

$$
Forecaster...Jurgensen/WFO LBF
Requested by...Joanna LeMoine
Type of request...WILDFIRE
.TAG 2416303.0/LBF
.DELDT 06/17/24
.FormatterVersion 2.0.0
.EMAIL LeMoineJL@northplattene.gov,myersbw@northplattene.gov,nws.northplatte@noaa.gov