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Spot Forecast for Shakamak Prairie...IDNR State Parks
National Weather Service Indianapolis IN
633 PM EDT Wed Oct 7 2026

Forecast is based on ignition time of 1300 EDT on October 08.
If conditions become unrepresentative...contact the National Weather
Service.

Please contact our office at 1-800-499-2133 if you have questions
or concerns with this forecast.

.DISCUSSION...

Quiet weather is expected on Thursday with mostly sunny
conditions. Northwesterly winds will remain light Thursday
afternoon, but a few sporadic gusts up to 15 mph cannot be ruled
out. Min RH values Thursday afternoon will fall to as low as 25 to
30 percent.

.THURSDAY...

Sky/weather.........Sunny (0-5 percent).
Max temperature.....Around 80.
Min humidity........28 percent.
Eye level winds.....Light winds.
Wind (20 ft)........Light winds.
Mixing height.......5300 ft AGL.
Transport winds.....Northwest 7 to 10 mph.
Smoke dispersal.....Fair (19400 knot-ft) early in the morning
                    increasing to good (48000 knot-ft) in the
                    afternoon.
ADI.................27 to 63.

TIME (EDT)      1 PM   3 PM   5 PM
Sky (%).........1      0      1
Weather cov.....
Weather type....NONE   NONE   NONE
Tstm cov........
Temp............75     79     78
RH..............34     29     30
20 ft wind......NW 3   NW 3   N 3
20 ft wind gust.6      8      8
Eye level wind..NW 2   NW 2   N 2
Eye lvl wnd gst.4      5      5
Mix hgt (ft)....3200   5100   4800
Transport wind..NW 7   NW 9   NW 9
ADI.............27     54     52
SDspl kt-ft/100019     40     39

.THURSDAY NIGHT...

Sky/weather.........Clear (0-5 percent).
Min temperature.....Around 51.
Max humidity........77 percent.
Eye level winds.....Light winds.
Wind (20 ft)........Light winds.
Mixing height.......400 ft AGL.
Transport winds.....North 5 to 7 mph shifting to the east 8 to 10
                    mph overnight.
Smoke dispersal.....Fair (19700 knot-ft) early in the evening
                    decreasing to poor (1600 knot-ft) late in the
                    night.
ADI.................2 to 28.

TIME (EDT)      6 PM   8 PM   10 PM  MIDNGT 2 AM   4 AM
Sky (%).........1      1      1      0      0      2
Weather cov.....
Weather type....NONE   NONE   NONE   NONE   NONE   NONE
Tstm cov........
Temp............77     67     60     58     54     53
RH..............31     44     58     63     73     73
20 ft wind......N 3    N 3    NE 3   E 2    E 2    E 2
20 ft wind gust.6      5      6      6      5      6
Eye level wind..N 2    N 2    NE 2   E 1    E 1    E 1
Eye lvl wnd gst.4      3      4      4      3      4
Mix hgt (ft)....3300   400    400    400    400    400
Transport wind..NW 7   N 5    NE 8   E 8    E 9    E 9
ADI.............28     2      4      4      4      4
SDspl kt-ft/100020     2      3      3      4      3

.FRIDAY...

Sky/weather.........Sunny (5-15 percent).
Max temperature.....Around 84.
Min humidity........30 percent.
Eye level winds.....Light winds becoming southeast up to 4 mph in
                    the late morning and afternoon.
Wind (20 ft)........Southeast winds 5 to 6 mph early in the morning
                    becoming light, then becoming southeast 5 to 6
                    mph in the late morning and afternoon.
Mixing height.......3600 ft AGL.
Transport winds.....Southeast 8 to 10 mph shifting to the south 9
                    to 12 mph in the afternoon.
Smoke dispersal.....Poor (3000 knot-ft) early in the morning
                    increasing to good (34600 knot-ft) in the
                    afternoon.
ADI.................4 early in the morning increasing to 48 in the
                    afternoon.

TIME (EDT)      6 AM   8 AM   10 AM  NOON   2 PM   4 PM
Sky (%).........4      6      8      9      11     10
Weather cov.....
Weather type....NONE   NONE   NONE   NONE   NONE   NONE
Tstm cov........
Temp............51     51     61     72     80     82
RH..............76     76     56     40     31     30
20 ft wind......E 3    SE 3   SE 5   SE 6   SE 6   SE 6
20 ft wind gust.7      7      10     12     13     13
Eye level wind..E 2    SE 2   SE 3   SE 4   SE 4   SE 4
Eye lvl wnd gst.4      4      6      7      8      8
Mix hgt (ft)....400    400    800    1800   2900   3600
Transport wind..E 8    E 10   SE 9   S 9    S 12   S 10
ADI.............4      11     10     22     41     46
SDspl kt-ft/10003      4      7      16     29     35

$$
Forecaster...NWS IND
Requested by...Anthony Sipes
Type of request...PRESCRIBED
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.DELDT 10/07/26
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