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Spot Forecast for West Range...Camp Ripley
National Weather Service Twin Cities/Chanhassen MN
656 AM CDT Tue Apr 23 2024

Forecast is based on ignition time of 1100 CDT on April 23.
IF CONDITIONS BECOME UNREPRESENTATIVE...CONTACT THE NATIONAL WEATHER
SERVICE.

Please contact our office if you have questions or concerns with
this forecast.

.DISCUSSION...A few scattered showers will be possible later this
morning with increasing clouds through the remainder of the day.
Winds will be on the breezy side again today out of the northwest
around 15-20 MPH with gusts of 25-30 MPH. RH values will be in the
low 40s.

.REST OF TODAY...

Sky/weather.........Partly sunny (65-75 percent). Slight chance of
                    rain showers late in the morning.
Temperature.........50 at ignition...Max 54.
RH..................66 percent at ignition...Min 44 percent.
Wind (20 ft)........Winds northwest at 15 mph at
                    ignition...otherwise Northwest winds 15 to 16
                    mph.
Smoke dispersal.....Excellent /83000 knot-ft/ at ignition.
                    Max...excellent /99100 knot-ft/.
Mixing height.......4200 ft AGL at ignition...otherwise 4700 ft
                    AGL.
Transport winds.....North 23 to 26 mph.
Haines Index........3 or very low potential for large plume
                    dominated fire growth at ignition...max 3.

TIME (CDT)      11A 12P 1PM 2PM 3PM 4PM 5PM 6PM 7PM 8PM 9PM 10P
Sky cover.......MC  MC  MC  MC  MC  MC  MC  PC  PC  PC  PC  PC
Weather cov.....SCH
Weather type....RW
Tstm cov........
Temp............50  52  53  52  52  51  51  51  50  47  44  43
RH..............66  59  54  54  52  52  48  44  44  49  55  57
20 FT wind dir..NW  NW  NW  N   N   N   N   N   N   N   N   N
20 FT wind spd..15  16  16  16  16  16  15  14  13  9   7   6
20 FT wind gust.22  25  26  26  26  26  24  23  21  16  13  12
Mix hgt (kft)...4.2 4.7 4.7 4.3 3.8 4.0 4.2 4.0 3.6 2.6 1.0 0.9
Transp wind dir.NW  N   N   N   N   N   N   N   N   N   N   N
Transp wind spd.23  24  24  25  26  25  23  22  18  15  10  9
Haines index....3   3   3   3   3   3   3   3   3   3   3   3

.TONIGHT...

Sky/weather.........Partly cloudy (20-30 percent) then becoming
                    clear (0-10 percent). Areas of frost overnight.
                    Widespread frost after 3 am.
Temperature.........Min 30.
RH..................Max 81 percent.
Wind (20 ft)........North winds 6 to 14 mph shifting to the
                    southeast around 6 mph overnight.
Smoke dispersal.....Excellent (76600 knot-ft) early in the evening
                    decreasing to poor (2200 knot-ft) late in the
                    night.
Mixing height.......400 ft AGL.
Transport winds.....North 15 to 22 mph becoming northeast 6 to 10
                    mph late in the evening, then shifting to the
                    south 6 to 9 mph overnight.
Haines Index........3 or very low potential for large plume
                    dominated fire growth.

$$
Forecaster...Dye
Requested by...Tim Notch
Type of request...PRESCRIBED
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.DELDT 04/23/24
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.EMAIL timothy.j.notch.nfg@army.mil