Spot Forecast
Issued by NWS Spokane, WA

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Spot Forecast for Blackhawk Mountain & Crown Creek Fires...NE WA IMT #1
National Weather Service Spokane WA
841 PM PDT Sat Aug 30 2025

Forecast is based on forecast start time of 2000 PDT on August 30.
If conditions become unrepresentative...contact the National Weather
Service.

.DISCUSSION...

Breezy southwest winds that were over the fire this evening
will weaken between 2030-2200 to speeds near 5 mph.  Winds will
swing around to the south then northeast between 2300-0300 with
light speeds.  There are mid clouds streaming through the region
which at times, produced a few sprinkles upstream.  Any sprinkles
could lead to brief erratic winds from the southwest near 10-13 mph
for all elevations before 2200 then mainly on the ridgetops as inversions
strengthen.  Humidity recoveries will be poor overnight. General winds
will be out of the northeast Sunday morning then variable to terrain
driven in the afternoon.  Midlevel clouds will continue to move over
the fires Sunday into Sunday night with a 5-15% chance for sprinkles
and 5% chance for a dry thunderstorm.


.REST OF TONIGHT...

Sky/weather.........Partly cloudy. 10% chance sprinkles.
CWR.................0 percent.
Chance of lightning.0 percent.
Min temperature.....60-62.
Max humidity........40-45 percent.
Wind (20 ft)........Southwest winds 4 to 7 mph becoming south then
                    northeast overnight 2 to 6 mph.  Erratic winds
                    up to 13 mph near sprinkles.
Mixing height.......Near surface except .
Transport winds.....Southwest around 9 mph early in the evening
                    northeast around 6 mph.

.SUNDAY...

Sky/weather.........Partly cloudy. 10% chance sprinkles. Haze and smoke.
CWR.................0 percent.
Chance of lightning.5 percent.
Max temperature.....89-95.
Min humidity........18-24 percent.
Wind (20 ft)........Northeast winds 4 to 7 mph through 1200 becoming variable
                    to upslope 1 to 4 mph.
Mixing height.......10000 ft AGL in the afternoon.
Transport winds.....Northeast around 6 mph shifting to the
                    southeast around 7 mph in the afternoon.

.SUNDAY NIGHT...

Sky/weather.........Partly cloudy. 15% chance sprinkles. Haze and smoke.
CWR.................0 percent.
Chance of lightning.5 percent.
Min temperature.....60-63.
Max humidity........50-56 percent.
Wind (20 ft)........Northeast winds around 5 mph.
Mixing height.......7000 ft AGL falling to near surface.
Transport winds.....Northeast 6 to 7 mph.

$$
Forecaster...SB
Requested by...Jessica Walston
Type of request...WILDFIRE
.TAG 2521003.1/OTX
.DELDT 08/30/25
.FormatterVersion 2.0.0
.EMAIL jessica.walston@dnr.wa.gov,2025.Grande@firenet.gov,eric.krausz@dnr.wa.gov