230 FNUS71 KRNK 280920 FWSRNK Spot Forecast for Wallace Tract Fields RX...USFS National Weather Service Blacksburg VA 420 AM EST Sat Feb 28 2026 Forecast is based on ignition time of 0500 EST on February 28. If conditions become unrepresentative, contact the National Weather Service. .DISCUSSION... It will be dry and warmer today, with minimum RH values above 60%. Winds will be dry with light and variable this morning, remaining westerly with some light gusts to 15 knots. A storm system will bring chances of wintry precipitation along with plain rain Monday into Tuesday while temperatures drop. After mid week, we warm up through the end of next week with a few chances for showers. .REST OF TONIGHT... Sky/weather.........Mostly cloudy (60-70 percent). Patchy fog. CWR (0.01 in).......0 percent. Min temperature.....Around 38. Max humidity........100 percent. Wind (20 ft)........Light winds. Mixing height.......600 ft AGL. Mixing winds........West around 6 mph. Smoke dispersal.....Poor (3000 knot-ft). LVORI...............8. ADI.................3. TIME (EST) 5AM Sky (%).........65 Weather cov.....PTY Weather type....FOG Tstm cov........ CWR.............0 Temp............39 RH..............96 20 FT wind dir..SW 20 FT wind spd..2 20 FT wind gust.6 Mix hgt (kft)...0.6 Mixng wind dir..W Mixng wind spd..6 LVORI...........8 ADI.............3 VRate mph-ft/1K.3 .TODAY... Sky/weather.........Mostly sunny (25-35 percent). Patchy fog early in the morning. CWR (0.01 in).......0 percent. Max temperature.....Around 63. Min humidity........38 percent. Wind (20 ft)........Light winds. Mixing height.......6000 ft AGL. Mixing winds........West 5 to 13 mph increasing to 9 to 16 mph in the afternoon. Smoke dispersal.....Poor (2700 knot-ft) early in the morning increasing to excellent (73800 knot-ft) in the afternoon. LVORI...............5. ADI.................4 early in the morning increasing to 96 in the afternoon. TIME (EST) 6 AM 8 AM 10 AM NOON 2 PM 4 PM Sky (%).........61 33 11 4 3 2 Weather cov.....PATCHY PATCHY Weather type....FOG FOG NONE NONE NONE NONE Tstm cov........ CWR.............0 0 0 0 0 0 Temp............39 40 49 59 63 63 RH..............97 94 68 46 41 38 20 ft wind......SW 2 SW 2 SW 2 W 3 W 4 W 3 20 ft wind gust.6 7 8 10 10 10 Mix hgt (ft)....600 700 1300 3800 5500 6000 Mixing wind......W 6 W 6 W 6 W 13 W 16 W 13 LVORI...........7 6 3 1 1 1 ADI.............4 5 10 56 96 85 VRate mph-ft/1K.3 4 7 46 85 76 .TONIGHT... Sky/weather.........Mostly clear (10-20 percent). CWR (0.01 in).......0 percent. Min temperature.....Around 39. Max humidity........91 percent. Wind (20 ft)........Light winds. Mixing height.......400 ft AGL. Mixing winds........West 2 to 6 mph. Smoke dispersal.....Poor (800 knot-ft). LVORI...............5. ADI.................1 to 2. TIME (EST) 6 PM 8 PM 10 PM MIDNGT 2 AM 4 AM Sky (%).........3 4 8 6 24 26 Weather cov..... Weather type....NONE NONE NONE NONE NONE NONE Tstm cov........ CWR.............0 0 0 0 0 0 Temp............57 50 45 43 41 42 RH..............46 62 71 75 85 83 20 ft wind......NW 2 N 1 NW 1 W 1 S 2 SW 2 20 ft wind gust.7 6 6 6 6 7 Mix hgt (ft)....1800 500 400 400 400 400 Mixing wind......W 6 W 2 W 3 NW 3 NW 3 NW 3 LVORI...........2 3 3 3 5 5 ADI.............2 1 2 2 2 2 VRate mph-ft/1K.10 1 1 1 1 1 .SUNDAY... Sky/weather.........Mostly sunny (30-40 percent). CWR (0.01 in).......0 percent. Max temperature.....Around 58. Min humidity........45 percent. Wind (20 ft)........Light winds becoming northwest 5 to 6 mph with gusts to around 16 mph in the late morning and afternoon, then becoming around 5 mph late in the afternoon. Mixing height.......4200 ft AGL. Mixing winds........West 2 to 7 mph increasing to 15 to 23 mph late in the morning, then increasing to 21 to 29 mph early in the afternoon becoming northwest 12 to 15 mph late in the afternoon. Smoke dispersal.....Poor (900 knot-ft) early in the morning increasing to excellent (106000 knot-ft) in the afternoon. LVORI...............4. ADI.................2 early in the morning increasing to 145 in the afternoon. TIME (EST) 6AM 7AM 8AM 9AM 10A 11A 12P 1PM 2PM 3PM 4PM 5PM Sky (%).........18 41 39 41 42 40 39 37 40 43 46 52 Weather cov..... Weather type.... Tstm cov........ CWR.............0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Temp............42 42 44 48 54 57 58 57 57 55 53 49 RH..............87 88 89 80 68 61 55 50 47 45 46 48 20 FT wind dir..SW SW SW W W W W W NW NW NW NW 20 FT wind spd..2 2 3 4 5 5 6 6 6 6 5 5 20 FT wind gust.8 10 11 12 13 14 14 16 14 14 14 14 Mix hgt (kft)...0.4 0.5 0.9 1.6 2.5 3.1 3.7 4.2 4.1 4.0 3.9 3.0 Mixng wind dir..W W W SW SW SW W W W NW NW NW Mixng wind spd..2 2 2 3 7 15 23 29 26 21 15 12 LVORI...........6 6 6 4 3 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 ADI.............2 2 3 8 22 57 105 145 131 100 70 29 VRate mph-ft/1K.1 1 2 6 17 46 86 122 110 84 58 36 $$ Forecaster...Hanes Requested by...Aaron Strobel Type of request...PRESCRIBED .TAG 2604122.4/RNK .DELDT 02/28/26 .FormatterVersion 2.0.0 .EMAIL aaron.p.strobel@usda.gov,james.collett@usda.gov