


Suppression Forecast
Issued by NWS Birmingham, AL
Issued by NWS Birmingham, AL
503 FNUS74 KBMX 041107 FWSBMX Spot Forecast for Compartment 4...BLM National Weather Service Birmingham AL 607 AM CDT Fri Apr 4 2025 Forecast is based on ignition time of 0700 CDT on April 04. If conditions become unrepresentative...contact the National Weather Service. .DISCUSSION... MinRH values will continue to linger around 40% this afternoon and and Saturday, before climbing greatly with widespread rain chances into Sunday. Expect winds to remain steady from the south through Sunday, before swinging towards the NW come Monday. .REST OF TODAY... Sky/weather.........Mostly cloudy (70-80 percent). CWR.................10 percent. Max temperature.....Around 90. Min humidity........43 percent. Wind (20 ft)........Light winds becoming south 5 to 8 mph with gusts to around 16 mph in the late morning and afternoon. Mixing height.......4900 ft AGL. Transport winds.....South 9 to 18 mph increasing to 15 to 20 mph late in the morning. Dispersion index....8 increasing to 25 late in the morning, then increasing to 71 late in the morning decreasing to 52 late in the afternoon. LVORI...............4. TIME (CDT) 7AM 8AM 9AM 10A 11A 12P 1PM 2PM 3PM 4PM 5PM Sky (%).........93 89 84 80 81 78 80 69 65 62 61 Weather cov..... Weather type.... Tstm cov........ CWR.............10 10 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Temp............68 69 72 78 81 83 86 88 89 89 87 RH..............97 97 87 78 67 62 53 49 46 43 44 20 FT wind dir..SE SE S S S S S S S S S 20 FT wind dir..130 150 160 170 170 170 170 170 170 170 170 20 FT wind spd..2 3 5 7 7 7 7 8 7 7 7 20 FT wind gust.10 11 12 13 14 14 14 14 16 14 14 Mix hgt (kft)...0.5 1.3 2.0 2.8 3.5 4.1 4.8 4.8 4.8 4.9 3.4 Transp wind dir.SE S S S S S S S S S S Transp wind spd.9 13 16 18 20 20 18 18 17 16 15 Dispersion idx..4 8 11 25 68 74 75 75 70 66 52 LVORI...........6 6 6 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 .TONIGHT... Sky/weather.........Mostly cloudy (55-65 percent) then becoming partly cloudy (35-45 percent) then becoming mostly cloudy (55-65 percent). CWR.................10 percent. Min temperature.....Around 64. Max humidity........93 percent. Wind (20 ft)........South winds around 7 mph early in the evening becoming light. Mixing height.......400 ft AGL. Transport winds.....South 9 to 13 mph. Dispersion index....31 decreasing to 7. LVORI...............4. TIME (CDT) 6PM 7PM 8PM 9PM 10P 11P MID 1AM 2AM 3AM 4AM 5AM Sky (%).........60 58 48 39 36 48 46 52 46 54 62 70 Weather cov..... Weather type.... Tstm cov........ CWR.............0 10 10 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Temp............85 81 79 76 74 73 71 70 67 66 66 65 RH..............46 55 62 72 76 79 83 85 90 91 89 93 20 FT wind dir..S S S S S S S S SE SE SE SE 20 FT wind dir..160 160 160 160 170 170 170 160 150 140 140 140 20 FT wind spd..7 7 3 3 3 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 20 FT wind gust.14 13 13 13 12 10 10 8 10 10 10 10 Mix hgt (kft)...2.0 0.6 0.6 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.4 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5 Transp wind dir.S S S S S S S S S S S S Transp wind spd.13 12 12 13 13 12 10 9 9 9 9 9 Dispersion idx..31 9 8 8 7 6 5 4 4 4 4 4 LVORI...........1 3 3 3 4 4 4 6 6 6 6 6 .SATURDAY... Sky/weather.........Partly sunny (55-65 percent). CWR.................0 percent. Max temperature.....Around 89. Min humidity........40 percent. Wind (20 ft)........Light winds becoming south 5 to 10 mph with gusts to around 18 mph early in the morning. Mixing height.......5400 ft AGL. Transport winds.....South 8 to 16 mph increasing to 20 to 22 mph in the late morning and afternoon. Dispersion index....6 increasing to 24 late in the morning, then increasing to 56 late in the morning increasing to 88 early in the afternoon increasing to 93 decreasing to 74 late in the afternoon. LVORI...............4. TIME (CDT) 6AM 7AM 8AM 9AM 10A 11A 12P 1PM 2PM 3PM 4PM 5PM Sky (%).........75 74 74 72 69 62 56 49 49 48 48 44 Weather cov..... Weather type.... Tstm cov........ CWR.............0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Temp............65 65 68 72 76 79 82 85 86 87 88 87 RH..............91 92 89 83 71 61 53 48 43 40 40 42 20 FT wind dir..SE SE SE S S S S S S S S S 20 FT wind dir..140 140 150 160 170 170 170 170 170 180 180 180 20 FT wind spd..2 3 5 7 8 9 9 9 10 10 10 9 20 FT wind gust.11 12 13 14 17 18 18 18 18 18 18 18 Mix hgt (kft)...0.5 0.5 1.3 2.0 2.7 3.4 4.0 4.7 4.9 5.2 5.4 4.1 Transp wind dir.S S S S S S S S S S S S Transp wind spd.8 9 13 16 20 21 21 21 22 22 22 20 Dispersion idx..4 6 8 22 26 53 58 83 90 92 93 74 LVORI...........6 5 5 5 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 $$ Forecaster...Aaron Requested by...Ben Haney Type of request...PRESCRIBED .TAG 2508702.1/BMX .DELDT 04/04/25 .FormatterVersion 2.0.0