Spot Forecast
Issued by NWS Paducah, KY
Issued by NWS Paducah, KY
643
FNUS73 KPAH 282020
FWSPAH
Spot Forecast for Inagheh 2 C/A...USFS Shawnee
National Weather Service Paducah KY
320 PM CDT Wed Oct 28 2026
Forecast is based on ignition time of 1000 CDT on October 29.
If conditions become unrepresentative...contact the National Weather
Service.
.DISCUSSION...
Forecast conditions tomorrow will be almost a carbon copy of today.
That means an ignition time temperature in the mid 60s with mostly
clear skies and light south winds. It will take awhile for mixing
heights to respond to the warming autumn sun, not reaching the
critical 1700 FT AGL height until closer to midday, topping out
around 3800 FT AGL by mid afternoon.
.THURSDAY...
Sky/weather.........Sunny (5-15 percent).
CWR.................0 percent.
Temperature.........65 at ignition...Max 81.
RH..................65 percent at ignition...Min 43 percent.
Wind (20 ft)........
Slope/valley.......Winds south at 6 mph at ignition...otherwise
Southwest winds 5 to 6 mph in the late morning
and afternoon becoming light.
Mixing height.......900 ft AGL at ignition...otherwise 3800 ft AGL.
Transport winds.....Southwest 8 to 12 mph.
Smoke dispersal.....Poor /8500 knot-ft/ at ignition. Max...poor
/28600 knot-ft/.
TIME (CDT) 10A 11A 12P 1PM 2PM 3PM 4PM 5PM
Sky cover.......CLR CLR MCR MCR MCR MCR MCR MCR
Weather cov.....
Weather type....
Tstm cov........
CWR.............0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Temp............65 71 75 78 79 80 81 79
RH..............65 53 46 43 44 44 44 47
20 FT wind dir..S S SW SW SW SW SW S
20 FT wind spd..5 6 6 6 6 5 5 3
20 FT wind gust.10 12 12 12 12 10 9 7
Mix hgt (kft)...0.9 1.3 2.1 3.1 3.6 3.8 3.4 1.7
Transp wind dir.S SW SW SW SW SW SW SW
Transp wind spd.12 12 10 10 9 8 8 8
Vrate kt-ft/1K..9 13 19 28 29 26 24 12
Ventrate Cat....PR PR PR PR PR PR PR PR
.THURSDAY NIGHT...
Sky/weather.........Partly cloudy (25-35 percent) then becoming
mostly cloudy (50-60 percent) then becoming
partly cloudy (40-50 percent) then becoming
mostly cloudy (50-60 percent).
CWR.................0 percent.
Temperature.........Min 54.
RH..................Max 100 percent.
Wind (20 ft)........
Slope/valley.......Light winds.
Mixing height.......400 ft AGL.
Transport winds.....South 5 to 7 mph shifting to the east 3 to 5
mph after 3 am.
Smoke dispersal.....Poor (1100 knot-ft).
TIME (CDT) 6PM 7PM 8PM 9PM 10P 11P MID 1AM 2AM 3AM 4AM 5AM
Sky cover.......PC PC MCR PC PC PC PC MC MC MC PC MC
Weather cov.....
Weather type....
Tstm cov........
CWR.............0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Temp............76 73 68 65 64 62 61 60 58 58 57 56
RH..............50 57 68 75 78 84 84 87 90 86 90 90
20 FT wind dir..S S S S S S N N N N N N
20 FT wind spd..2 2 2 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
20 FT wind gust.6 5 3 3 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 1
Mix hgt (kft)...0.7 0.4 0.4 0.4 0.4 0.4 0.4 0.4 0.4 0.4 0.4 0.4
Transp wind dir.S S S S S S S S SE SE E E
Transp wind spd.7 7 7 7 7 7 6 5 5 5 3 3
Vrate kt-ft/1K..4 2 3 2 2 2 2 2 2 1 1 1
Ventrate Cat....PR PR PR PR PR PR PR PR PR PR PR PR
.FRIDAY...
Sky/weather.........Mostly sunny (40-50 percent).
CWR.................0 percent.
Temperature.........Max 80.
RH..................Min 44 percent.
Wind (20 ft)........
Slope/valley.......Light winds.
Mixing height.......4800 ft AGL.
Transport winds.....Southeast 3 to 8 mph.
Smoke dispersal.....Poor (1100 knot-ft).
TIME (CDT) 6 AM 8 AM 10 AM NOON 2 PM 4 PM
Sky cover.......MCLDY PCLDY PCLDY PCLDY PCLDY PCLDY
Weather cov.....
Weather type....NONE NONE NONE NONE NONE NONE
Tstm cov........
CWR.............0 0 0 0 0 0
Temp............55 54 67 76 80 80
RH..............93 100 70 52 44 45
20 FT wind dir..N E E SE SE SE
20 FT wind spd..0 1 1 2 2 2
20 FT wind gust.1 2 5 7 7 7
Mix hgt (kft)...0.4 0.4 0.8 2.9 4.6 4.5
Transp wind dir.E SE E SE SE SE
Transp wind spd.3 5 6 7 8 8
Vrate kt-ft/1K..1 2 4 19 33 31
Ventrate Cat....POOR POOR POOR POOR POOR POOR
$$
Forecaster...WFO PADUCAH
Requested by...Matt Brickner
Type of request...PRESCRIBED
.TAG 2624793.0/PAH
.DELDT 10/28/26
.FormatterVersion 2.0.0
.EMAIL matthew.brickner@usda.gov