National Weather Service Weather Forecast Office

Fire Weather Forecast (Cleveland 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       MCLEAR       
CHANCE PRECIP (%)     20           0            20           
PRECIP TYPE           TSTRMS       NONE         TSTRMS       
TEMP (24H TREND)      84 (+1)      63 (+1)      87           
MX/MN RH% (24H TREND) 50 (-14)     88 (-12)     50           
20FTWND-AM(MPH)       SW  5                     SW  3        
20FTWND-PM(MPH)       W  7         SW  4        W  5         
PRECIP AMOUNT         0.02         0.00         0.01         
PRECIP DURATION       1            0            1            
MIXING HGT(FT-MSL)    4804                      4745         
MIXING HGT(FT-AGL)    4584                      4525         
CATEGORY DAY          4                         2            
TRANSPORT WND (MPH)   W 15                      SW  4        
VENT RATE (M/S-M)     10248                     2892         
DISPERSION INDEX      23                        6            
LVORI                              1                         
HAINES INDEX          4            5            4            
STABILITY CLASS       D            D            C            
MIX HGT 500 (F)       74                        80