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FNUS21 KWNS 090443

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Day 1 Fire Weather Outlook  

NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK

1143 PM CDT Tue Apr 08 2025



Valid 091200Z - 101200Z



...CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER AREA FOR PORTIONS OF THE CENTRAL HIGH

PLAINS...



...Synopsis...

A mid-level trough will begin to amplify over the Ohio Valley as

upper ridging builds in over the Interior West today. By afternoon,

an 80+ kt 500 mb jet streak will overspread a dry boundary layer

over the central/northern Plains. Downward momentum transport within

this dry boundary layer will support 15-20 mph sustained

northwesterly surface winds amid 20 percent RH. Given dry fuels

across the central/northern Plains, Elevated highlights have been

introduced where guidance consensus depicts the aforementioned

dry/windy conditions persisting for several hours. Guidance

consensus also depicts 20-25 mph sustained northwesterly surface

winds coinciding with 10-15 percent RH across portions of the

central High Plains, where Critical highlights are in place. 



Additionally, by afternoon, buoyancy (albeit scant) may support

isolated, fast-moving/high-based thunderstorms over the same

portions of the central Plains that will experience dry/windy

surface conditions atop dry fuels. However, thunderstorms should be

sparse at best over most areas, and it is unclear where a locally

higher density of lightning flashes may occur, hence no isolated dry

thunderstorms highlights introduced this outlook.



..Squitieri.. 04/09/2025



...Please see www.spc.noaa.gov/fire for graphic product...



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