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Fire Weather Concerns for a Large Part of the Central U.S.; Severe Weather in the Central Plains

Dry and windy conditions will bring widespread fire weather concerns to the northern/central Plains and portions of the Southwest into the southern Plains. Severe thunderstorms with large hail and damaging wind gusts are possible over the central Plains today into this weekend. Rain and high elevation snow is expected over parts of the Cascades and Northern Intermountain Region through Saturday. Read More >

1200 UTC NAM 250 mb Heights, Isotachs, and Wind (kts)

Forecasts are based on the daily 1200 UTC NAM run and are updated daily by 1400 UTC.  Additional models runs can be found here