[EDIS]  FIRE WEATHER WATCH  [Info: Statewide] From: Office of Emergency Services

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SACRAMENTO CA
0930 AM PDT TUE AUG 07 2001 

...FIRE WEATHER WATCH OVER THE CREST AND EAST SIDE OF THE TAHOE
AND ELDORADO NATIONAL FORESTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING THROUGH
WEDNESDAY FOR POSSIBLE DRY LIGHTNING...

FIRE WEATHER ZONES INCLUDED IN THIS WARNING ARE...536...538...541.

DISCUSSION: HIGH PRESSURE RIDGE OVER GREAT BASIN BRINGING UNSTABLE
UPPER LEVEL SOUTHEAST FLOW OVER THE AREA. SIERRA CREST
THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY MAY MAKE IT THIS FAR NORTH BY THIS AFTERNOON
AND WITH THE LOWER ATMOSPHERE REMAINING VERY DRY...ANY LIGHTNING
WOULD BE DRY. IN ADDITION...HUMIDITIES ARE EXPECTED IN THE TEENS
AGAIN THIS AFTERNOON. THEREFORE A FIRE WEATHER WATCH HAS BEEN
ISSUED FOR THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH WEDNESDAY FOR MAINLY THE HIGHER
ELEVATIONS AND EAST SIDE OF SIERRA CREST.

PLEASE ADVISE THE APPROPRIATE OFFICIALS OR FIRE CREWS IN THE FIELD
OF THIS WATCH. 

SMITH


For more information contact:
OES Warning Center at 916-262-1621

EDIS-08-07-01 1057 PDT


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