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Spot Forecast for Hot Canyon Fire v3...NV Team 5 IMT
National Weather Service Elko NV
108 PM PDT Wed Jul 16 2025

Forecast is based on forecast start time of 1400 PDT on July 16.
If conditions become unrepresentative, contact the National Weather
Service.

Please contact National Weather Service Elko if you have questions
or concerns with this forecast.

.DISCUSSION...Light winds and mostly sunny skies for the rest of
Wednesday. Isolated dry thunderstorms are forecast south of the
incident location though a stray thunderstorm in extreme eastern
Elko County isn`t impossible. On Thursday isolated dry
thunderstorms over eastern Elko county are forecasted between
12PM and roughly 7PM PDT tomorrow evening. While light winds are
expected on Thursday winds will become gusty and erratic in and
around thunderstorms that do develop.

.REST OF TODAY...

Sky/weather.........Sunny (15-25 percent).
Max temperature.....Around 93.
Min humidity........13 percent.
Wind (20 ft)........
 Slope/valley.......West winds 6 to 9 mph.
CWR.................0 percent.
Mixing height.......14000 ft AGL.
Transport winds.....West around 19 mph.

.TONIGHT...

Sky/weather.........Mostly clear (15-25 percent).
Min temperature.....Around 60.
Max humidity........38 percent.
Wind (20 ft)........
 Slope/valley.......North winds 5 to 8 mph.
CWR.................0 percent.
Mixing height.......12100 ft AGL decreasing to 900 ft AGL early in
                    the evening.
Transport winds.....Northeast around 8 mph.

.THURSDAY...

Sky/weather.........Mostly sunny (25-35 percent). Isolated showers
                    and thunderstorms in the afternoon.
Max temperature.....Around 95.
Min humidity........12 percent.
Wind (20 ft)........
 Slope/valley.......Northwest winds around 5 mph shifting to the
                    south 5 to 9 mph in the afternoon. Gusty and
                    erratic winds expected near thunderstorms in
                    the afternoon.
CWR.................0 percent.
Mixing height.......6100 ft AGL increasing to 13500 ft AGL late in
                    the afternoon.
Transport winds.....West around 8 mph.

$$
Forecaster...Bongard
Requested by...Shawn McEvers
Type of request...WILDFIRE
.TAG 2518017.2/LKN
.DELDT 07/16/25
.FormatterVersion 2.0.0
.EMAIL shawn_mcevers@firenet.gov,nveic@firenet.gov