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Spot Forecast for Wateree River HP/WMA...South Carolina Department of Natural resources
National Weather Service Columbia SC
1140 AM EDT Thu Jun 20 2024

Forecast is based on ignition time of 1000 EDT on June 21.
If conditions become unrepresentative...contact the National Weather
Service.

.DISCUSSION...High pressure will remain over the area with
increasing moisture as a weak tropical wave moves toward the coast
of eastern GA and northeast FL. This will spread moisture into the
burn area with cumulus developing in the late morning and a chance
of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. Thunderstorms which
develop could produce gusty and erratic winds. Winds will be light
and variable through mid morning then as the inversion breaks
around 930 am become easterly around 5 mph with gusts to 12 mph.
Afternoon high temperatures will be around 92 with heat index
values pushing into the upper 90s during the mid afternoon to
early evening hours. An inversion will develop with sunset with
winds becoming light and variable overnight and mixing height
falling to 200 feet. Patchy fog is possible Friday night.

.FRIDAY...

Sky/weather.........Mostly sunny (20-30 percent). Chance of showers
                    and thunderstorms in the afternoon.
Chance of pcpn......30 percent.
Max temperature.....Around 92.
Min humidity........46 percent.
Wind (20 ft)........Light winds becoming east around 5 mph late in
                    the morning. Gusty and erratic winds expected
                    near thunderstorms late in the afternoon.
Mixing height.......5000 ft AGL.
Transport winds.....East 8 to 14 mph.
LVORI...............1.
ADI.................40 to 72.

TIME (EDT)      10A 11A 12P 1PM 2PM 3PM 4PM 5PM
Sky (%).........18  20  19  21  29  31  34  36
Weather cov.....        SCH CHC CHC CHC CHC CHC
Weather type....        RW  RW  RW  RW  RW  RW
Tstm cov........                SCH SCH SCH CHC
Chc of pcpn (%).10  10  20  30  30  30  30  30
Temp............81  84  86  88  90  91  92  91
RH..............67  57  53  50  47  46  46  49
Aparnt tmp (F)..84  87  89  91  93  95  96  96
20 FT wind dir..NE  NE  NE  E   E   E   E   E
20 FT wind dir..060 060 060 070 070 080 090 100
20 FT wind spd..3   5   5   5   5   5   5   5
20 FT wind gust.9   10  12  12  12  12  10  10
Mix hgt (kft)...2.7 3.5 4.0 4.5 5.0 4.7 4.3 3.9
Transp wind dir.E   E   E   E   E   E   E   E
Transp wind dir.070 070 070 070 080 080 080 080
Transp wind spd.14  14  14  13  12  10  9   8
LVORI...........1   1   1   1   1   1   1   1
ADI.............49  63  68  71  72  60  49  40

.FRIDAY NIGHT...

Sky/weather.........Mostly clear (15-25 percent). Chance of showers
                    and thunderstorms early in the evening. Patchy
                    fog overnight. Areas of fog overnight.
Chance of pcpn......30 percent.
Min temperature.....Around 70.
Max humidity........100 percent.
Wind (20 ft)........East winds around 5 mph early in the evening
                    becoming light. Gusty and erratic winds
                    expected near thunderstorms early in the
                    evening.
Mixing height.......200 ft AGL.
Transport winds.....Southeast 2 to 9 mph decreasing to around 2 mph
                    early in the morning.
LVORI...............6.
ADI.................1 to 30.

TIME (EDT)      6 PM   8 PM   10 PM  MIDNGT 2 AM   4 AM
Sky (%).........32     23     13     8      7      25
Weather cov.....CHANCE                      AREAS  AREAS
Weather type....RNSHWR NONE   NONE   NONE   FOG    FOG
Tstm cov........CHANCE
Chc of pcpn (%).30     0      0      0      0      0
Temp............90     86     80     75     73     71
RH..............52     63     79     93     100    100
20 FT wind......E 5    SE 3   SE 2   SE 1   N 0    N 0
20 FT wind gust.10     9      8      6      3      2
20 FT wind dir..110    130    140    140    000    000
Mix hgt (ft)....3000   500    300    300    300    200
Transp wind dir.090    120    130    140    140    140
Transport wind..E 8    SE 9   SE 8   SE 6   SE 3   SE 2
LVORI...........1      3      4      6      10     10
ADI.............30     4      3      3      2      1

.SATURDAY...

Sky/weather.........Sunny (20-30 percent). Areas of fog early in
                    the morning. Chance of showers and
                    thunderstorms late in the afternoon.
Chance of pcpn......40 percent.
Max temperature.....Around 96.
Min humidity........45 percent.
Wind (20 ft)........Light winds. Gusty and erratic winds expected
                    near thunderstorms late in the afternoon.
Mixing height.......6500 ft AGL.
Transport winds.....South 2 to 6 mph.
LVORI...............6.
ADI.................1 to 36.

TIME (EDT)      6 AM      9 AM      NOON      3 PM
Sky (%).........32        25        18        21
Weather cov.....AREAS                         CHANCE
Weather type....FOG       NONE      NONE      RNSHWR
Tstm cov........                              CHANCE
Chc of pcpn (%).0         10        10        40
Temp............71        78        90        94
RH..............100       89        58        46
Aparnt tmp (F)..71        78        98        102
20 FT wind......N 0G2     N 0G2     S 1G5     SE 2G7
20 FT wind dir..000       000       170       150
Mix hgt (ft)....200       1500      4700      5700
Transp wind dir.160       190       210       200
Transport wind..S 2       S 5       SW 5      S 5
LVORI...........10        5         2         1
ADI.............1         13        27        34

$$
Forecaster...Proud
Requested by...Lewis Price
Type of request...PRESCRIBED
.TAG 2416446.0/CAE
.DELDT 06/20/24
.FormatterVersion 2.0.0
.EMAIL Pricel@dnr.sc.gov