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 >

Bufkit Information

The BUFKIT program is a free computer program developed by the National Weather Service office in Buffalo, NY and the Warning Decision Training Branch in Norman, OK.

The program is an excellent tool for analysing model based atmosperic sounding data. If you have a need or interest in graphically viewing and analyzing this type of sounding data then this program is for you. Here is a screen snapshot of the 'main interface'. There is also a 'time-height' view if you want to view all of the sounding's hourly forecasts at once.

You can download the program from https://training.weather.gov/wdtd/tools/BUFKIT/ There is also additional information about the program at this web site.

Some data files for these soundings are available below but other sites are available in many locations on the internet.

State	NAM Model	NAM Nest	HRRR Model	RAP Model	GFS Model	SREF Model
Washington	Spokane Pullman Colville Republic Moses Lake Ephrata Wenatchee Omak Winthrop Plain Stampede Pass Yakima Pasco Walla Walla Seattle Ellensburg Mt Adams West	Spokane Pullman Colville Republic Moses Lake Ephrata Wenatchee Omak Winthrop Plain Stampede Pass Yakima Pasco Walla Walla Seattle Ellensburg Mt Adams West	Spokane Pullman Colville Republic Moses Lake Ephrata Wenatchee Omak Winthrop Plain Stampede Pass Yakima Pasco Walla Walla Ellensburg Mt Adams West	Spokane Pullman Colville Republic Moses Lake Ephrata Wenatchee Omak Winthrop Plain Stampede Pass Yakima Pasco Walla Walla Seattle Ellensburg Mt Adams West	Spokane Pullman Colville Moses Lake Ephrata Wenatchee Omak Winthrop Stampede Pass Yakima Pasco Walla Walla Seattle	Spokane Colville Wenatchee Omak Stampede Pass Yakima
Idaho	Coeur d 'Alene Bonners Ferry Kellogg Lewiston McCall Grangeville Boise	Coeur d 'Alene Bonners Ferry Kellogg Lewiston McCall Grangeville Boise	Coeur d 'Alene Bonners Ferry Kellogg Lewiston McCall Grangeville	Coeur d 'Alene Kellogg Lewiston McCall Grangeville Boise	Coeur d 'Alene Lewiston McCall Grangeville Boise	Coeur d 'Alene Lewiston
Montana	Missoula Libby Great Falls	Missoula Libby Great Falls	Missoula Libby	Missoula Libby Great Falls	Missoula Libby Great Falls
Oregon	Pendleton The Dalles Redmond Salem Portland	Pendleton The Dalles Redmond Salem Portland	Pendleton The Dalles Redmond Salem Portland	Pendleton The Dalles Redmond Salem Portland	Pendleton The Dalles Redmond Salem Portland

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

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