Spot Forecast
Issued by NWS Columbia, SC
Issued by NWS Columbia, SC
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666 FNUS72 KCAE 201540 FWSCAE 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