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Spot Forecast for McDougall WMA - South...MN DNR
National Weather Service Twin Cities/Chanhassen MN
538 AM CDT Wed Apr 24 2024

Forecast is based on ignition time of 1200 CDT on April 24.
IF CONDITIONS BECOME UNREPRESENTATIVE...CONTACT THE NATIONAL WEATHER
SERVICE.

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

.DISCUSSION...For the McDougall WMA Rx Burn, skies will be mostly
sunny today with a few high clouds moving through from west to
east midday. This will allow highs today to be in the upper 50s to
low 60s. Dry conditions are expected, with relative humidity
values forecasted to be in the low 60s this morning before
dropping into the mid-low 30s by the afternoon. Winds will
generally be southeasterly at 5-10 MPH.

.REST OF TODAY...

Sky/weather.........Sunny (10-20 percent).
Temperature.........50 at ignition...Max 59.
RH..................50 percent at ignition...Min 33 percent.
Wind (20 ft)........Winds south at 8 mph at ignition...otherwise
                    South winds 7 to 8 mph.
Smoke dispersal.....Good /34700 knot-ft/ at ignition. Max...good
                    /56700 knot-ft/.
Mixing height.......3500 ft AGL at ignition...otherwise 6300 ft
                    AGL.
Transport winds.....South 10 to 12 mph.
Haines Index........4 or low potential for large plume dominated
                    fire growth at ignition...max 4.

TIME (CDT)      12P 1PM 2PM 3PM 4PM 5PM 6PM 7PM 8PM 9PM 10P 11P
Sky cover.......MCR MCR MCR MCR MCR MCR MCR PC  PC  PC  PC  MC
Weather cov.....
Weather type....
Tstm cov........
Temp............50  53  56  57  58  59  59  58  54  50  48  47
RH..............50  44  40  37  36  33  33  36  41  50  56  58
20 FT wind dir..S   S   S   S   S   S   S   S   SE  SE  SE  SE
20 FT wind spd..8   8   8   8   7   8   7   7   7   7   8   8
20 FT wind gust.13  12  12  12  12  12  12  12  13  13  15  15
Mix hgt (kft)...3.5 4.5 5.3 5.6 6.3 6.3 6.1 2.8 0.6 0.5 0.5 0.5
Transp wind dir.S   S   S   S   SW  SW  S   S   S   S   S   S
Transp wind spd.12  12  10  10  10  10  12  9   10  12  14  14
Haines index....4   4   4   4   4   4   4   4   4   4   4   4

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Forecaster...Dettmann
Requested by...Beau Liddell
Type of request...PRESCRIBED
.TAG 2412047.0/MPX
.DELDT 04/24/24
.FormatterVersion 2.0.0
.EMAIL beaulin.liddell@state.mn.us

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