NOAA

National Weather Service Weather Forecast Office

Springfield, MO

• Home
• Site Map
• News
• Organization
• Search for: NWS All NOAA 

Spot Forecast
Issued by NWS Aberdeen, SD

000
FNUS73 KABR 232013
FWSABR

Spot Forecast for Wigdale RX...State of South Dakota
National Weather Service Aberdeen SD
313 PM CDT Tue Apr 23 2024

Forecast is based on ignition time of 1600 CDT on April 23.
If conditions become unrepresentative...contact the National Weather
Service.

.DISCUSSION...
Note: Since the Spot Forecast this morning Mixing Height has been
added to the tabular information below, to give you a better idea
of when mixing heights will be increasing through the daytime
hours. Few changes were made to the forecast, with temperatures up
about a degree during the daytime hours. As a result, relative
humidity values are expected to be just under 35 percent for a
minimum Wednesday afternoon. A slight (20 percent) chance of light
rain showers has been added to the forecast for Wednesday night
between 2100 and 2300. If any rain does fall, little to no
accumulation is expected. Mainly dry weather will continue
through the day Thursday.

.WEDNESDAY...

Sky/weather.........Mostly sunny (20-30 percent).
CWR.................0 percent.
Chance of pcpn......0 percent.
LAL.................1.
Max temperature.....Around 61.
Min humidity........32 percent.
Wind (20 ft)........South winds 5 to 10 mph.
Mixing height.......300 ft agl increasing to 6400 ft agl.
Transport winds.....South 8 to 12 mph.
Smoke dispersal.....Poor (2200 knot-ft) early in the morning
increasing to good (64400 knot-ft) in the afternoon.
Haines Index........4 (low).

TIME (CDT)      6AM 7AM 8AM 9AM 10A 11A 12P 1PM 2PM 3PM 4PM 5PM
Sky (%).........2   3   4   9   16  18  23  23  27  26  35  46
Weather cov.....
Weather type....
Tstm cov........
Chc of pcpn (%).0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0
Temp............32  32  36  42  46  50  53  56  58  60  61  61
RH..............88  88  82  70  63  54  46  40  37  33  33  33
20 FT wind dir..S   S   S   S   S   S   S   S   S   S   S   S
20 FT wind spd..5   5   6   6   8   9   9   9   9   10  10  10
20 FT wind gust.6   7   8   9   11  12  13  13  14  14  14  15
Mix hgt (kft)...0.3 0.3 0.4 1.3 2.3 3.2 4.7 5.3 5.9 6.3 6.4 6.4
Smoke Dispersal.PR  PR  PR  PR  PR  PR  PR  PR  FR  FR  FR  GD

$$
Forecaster...KF
Requested by...Brett Blank
Type of request...PRESCRIBED
.TAG 2411951.1/ABR
.DELDT 04/23/24
.FormatterVersion 2.0.0
.EMAIL brett.blank@state.sd.us