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Spot Forecast for JCPRD Racetrack Field...Johnson County Park and Recreation District
National Weather Service Kansas City/Pleasant Hill MO
724 AM CDT Wed Mar 27 2024

Forecast is based on ignition time of 1000 CDT on March 27.
If conditions become unrepresentative...contact the National Weather
Service.

Please contact our office at 1-800-438-0596, if you have questions
or concerns with this forecast.

.DISCUSSION...

Current conditions near the burn site are a temperature of 20 degrees, a RH
of 80 percent, and 5 mph winds out of the NNW. By 10 am, the temperature should be
around 34 degrees with a RH around 50 percent with light northwesterly winds. RH will
continue to drop through the late morning hours and into the afternoon, with RH
bottoming out around 30 to 35 percent by mid to late afternoon. Winds should become
more westerly by late morning, remaining light (below 10 mph).

.REST OF TODAY...

Sky/weather.........Mostly sunny (20-30 percent).
CWR.................0 percent.
Max temperature.....Around 50.
Min humidity........33 percent.
Wind (20 ft)........
 Slope/valley.......Northwest winds 5 to 7 mph late in the morning
                    becoming light, then becoming west 5 to 6 mph
                    late in the afternoon.
Mixing height.......3800 ft AGL.
Transport winds.....Northwest 5 to 7 mph shifting to the southwest
                    6 to 7 mph late in the afternoon.
Haines Index........4 to 6 or low to high potential for large plume
                    dominated fire growth.

TIME (CDT)      10A 11A 12P 1PM 2PM 3PM 4PM 5PM
Sky (%).........16  21  31  36  34  30  29  27
Weather cov.....
Weather type....
Tstm cov........
CWR.............0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0
Temp............34  37  40  44  45  47  49  49
RH..............51  46  41  35  36  34  33  33
20 FT wind dir..NW  NW  NW  NW  W   W   W   SW
20 FT wind spd..7   6   5   3   5   6   6   6
20 FT wind gust.10  9   7   6   6   7   8   8
Mix hgt (kft)...1.9 2.3 2.7 3.0 3.3 3.6 3.8 3.6
Transp wind dir.NW  NW  NW  W   W   SW  SW  SW
Transp wind spd.7   7   6   5   6   6   7   6
Haines index....4   4   5   5   5   6   6   6

$$
Forecaster...Williams
Requested by...Coltin Ridenour
Type of request...PRESCRIBED
.TAG 2408548.0/EAX
.DELDT 03/27/24
.FormatterVersion 2.0.0
.EMAIL Coltin.Ridenour@jocogov.org


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