National Weather Service Weather Forecast Office

Fire Weather Forecast (Boone County)

LAST UPDATED: 517 AM CDT WED MAY 22 2013

.DISCUSSION... PATCHY FOG WILL BE POSSIBLE THIS MORNING...DENSE
IN SPOTS...BUT AFTER SUNRISE ANY FOG WILL DISSIPATE. A FEW LIGHT
SHOWERS WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE MAINLY THIS MORNING OVER
ARKANSAS...BUT AS THE DAY GOES ON...DRIER AIR WILL FILTER INTO
THE STATE AND LOWER AND THEN END THE CHANCE FOR ANY RAIN. ON
THURSDAY A SLIGHT CHANCE OF ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE SEEN
OVER WESTERN TO SOUTHERN ARKANSAS AS AN UPPER SYSTEM MOVES OVER
THE AREA. ON FRIDAY A WEAK COLD FRONT WILL MOVE INTO THE
STATE...BUT CHANCES FOR RAIN WILL AGAIN BE LIMITED TO THE SOUTH
AND WESTERN SECTIONS OF THE STATE. ALSO ON SATURDAY...AN UPPER
LEVEL SYSTEM WILL MOVE CLOSER TO NORTHWEST ARKANSAS...AND SOME
ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS MAY DEVELOP. OVERALL COVERAGE AND RAIN
AMOUNTS TODAY THROUGH SATURDAY WILL BE LOW.

                      TODAY        TONIGHT      THU

CLOUD COVER           MCLEAR       MCLEAR       PCLDY        
CHANCE PRECIP (%)     10           0            0            
PRECIP TYPE           TSTRMS       NONE         NONE         
TEMP (24H TREND)      80 (+10)     56 (-2)      80           
MX/MN RH% (24H TREND) 44 (-34)     86 (-13)     51           
20FTWND-AM(MPH)       W  5                      NW  3        
20FTWND-PM(MPH)       W 10         W  7         NW  6        
PRECIP AMOUNT         0.01         0.00         0.00         
PRECIP DURATION       1            0            0            
MIXING HGT(FT-MSL)    4964                      4893         
MIXING HGT(FT-AGL)    3862                      3791         
CATEGORY DAY          4                         3            
TRANSPORT WND (MPH)   NW 22                     NW 12        
VENT RATE (M/S-M)     15130                     7455         
DISPERSION INDEX      42                        22           
LVORI                              1                         
HAINES INDEX          3            4            4            
STABILITY CLASS       C            D            C            
MIX HGT 500 (F)       65                        66