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As of March 30th, pending any significant changes in the activity of the fire, Texas A&M Forest Service will no longer be updating information on this incident. The Bosque Fire has been turned over to local fire resources.    Texas A&M Forest Service received a request for assistance in Bosque County on the Bosque River Fire, approximately 3 miles east of Iredel, Texas, on the evening on March 27, 2022. The fire was burning actively in grass and shrub fuels. During initial attack, ground resources engaged in constructing containment lines to stop forward progression. State resources are working in cooperation with local fire

This fire will no longer be updated. Firefighters are currently engaged in wildfire suppression in Jeff Davis County, located approximately 8.5 miles south of Kent. The Nunn Fire started on March 28, 2022 at approximately 3:00 pm in mountainous terrain. Texas A&M Forest Service (TAMFS) is in unified command with Fort Davis, Cherry Creek, and DMR volunteer fire departments. The fire is burning in grass and brushy fuels with high potential for growth. In addition to TAMFS and local resources, a strike team of Texas Intrastate Fire Mutual Aid System (TIFMAS) engines is present to assist. Aviation resources have been requested for

The City of Nampa is establishing a task force to plan and educate residents on best practices for water conservation since the water supply is expected to be below normal and drought is expected to persist. The current snowpack in the Boise River basin is 64% of normal. Boise State Public Radio (Idaho), March 31, 2022

Sanibel Fire & Rescue District banned all open burning on the island effective immediately due to the extremely dry conditions. The drought index in Lee County was above 650. Santiva Chronicle (Fla.), March 31, 2022

Water restrictions have affected some landscaping businesses in the Salt Lake City area as some customers reduced or stopped using lawn care services. People have also begun using soil moisture manager products to keep water in the soil longer. KSL Newsradio 102.7FM 1160AM (Salt Lake City, Utah), March 28, 2022

No Mesoscale Discussions are in effect as of Thu Mar 31 14:34:02 UTC 2022.

WW 0085 Status Updates
STATUS REPORT ON WW 85 SEVERE WEATHER THREAT CONTINUES RIGHT OF A LINE FROM AAF TO 5 E TLH TO 15 NE MGR TO 35 W VDI TO 40 NNW VDI. ..KERR..03/31/22 ATTN...WFO...TAE...JAX...FFC... STATUS REPORT FOR WT 85 SEVERE WEATHER THREAT CONTINUES FOR THE FOLLOWING AREAS FLC037-047-065-067-079-121-123-129-311540- FL . FLORIDA COUNTIES INCLUDED ARE FRANKLIN HAMILTON JEFFERSON LAFAYETTE MADISON SUWANNEE TAYLOR WAKULLA GAC001-003-005-019-027-065-069-075-101-107-161-173-185-209-271- 279-283-299-309-311540- GA . GEORGIA COUNTIES INCLUDED ARE APPLING ATKINSON BACON BERRIEN BROOKS CLINCH COFFEE COOK ECHOLS EMANUEL JEFF DAVIS LANIER LOWNDES MONTGOMERY TELFAIR TOOMBS TREUTLEN WARE WHEELER Read more

WW 85 TORNADO FL GA CW 311035Z - 311800Z
URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED Tornado Watch Number 85 NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK 635 AM EDT Thu Mar 31 2022 The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a * Tornado Watch for portions of Eastern Florida Panhandle, Florida Big Bend area and northwestern Florida Southern Georgia Coastal Waters * Effective this Thursday morning and afternoon from 635 AM until 200 PM EDT. * Primary threats include... A few tornadoes possible Scattered damaging wind gusts to 65 mph possible SUMMARY...A band of strong-severe thunderstorms, with occasional, embedded supercells, bows and mesovortices, will continue to pose a threat of tornadoes and damaging winds this morning. Activity should move into a destabilizing air mass later this morning across southern Georgia and the coastal bend. The tornado watch area is approximately along and 85 statute miles north and south of a line from 30 miles north of Apalachicola FL to 80 miles northeast of Valdosta GA. For a complete depiction of the watch see the associated watch outline update (WOUS64 KWNS WOU5). PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... REMEMBER...A Tornado Watch means conditions are favorable for tornadoes and severe thunderstorms in and close to the watch area. Persons in these areas should be on the lookout for threatening weather conditions and listen for later statements and possible warnings. && OTHER WATCH INFORMATION...This tornado watch replaces tornado watch number 84. Watch number 84 will not be in effect after 635 AM EDT. AVIATION...Tornadoes and a few severe thunderstorms with hail surface and aloft to 1 inch. Extreme turbulence and surface wind gusts to 55 knots. A few cumulonimbi with maximum tops to 500. Mean storm motion vector 24035. ...Edwards Read more

 Texas A&M Forest Service (TAMFS) received a request for assistance on a large wildfire in Throckmorton County close the the Haskell County line. The Doe fire is showing a moderate rate of spread being wind driven with an initial size up estimating 200 acres. TAMFS is working in unified command with local responders on suppression efforts and constructing line around the fire, additionally air attack was requested for air support and large air tankers (LAT) have been used to make retardant drops along active head of the fire slowing the rate of spread. Dry conditions and high winds are contributing to the fire

SPC 1300Z Day 1 Outlook
Day 1 Convective Outlook NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK 0753 AM CDT Thu Mar 31 2022 Valid 311300Z - 011200Z ...THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS PARTS OF THE SOUTHEAST INTO THE HUDSON VALLEY... ...SUMMARY... Damaging thunderstorm gusts and a few tornadoes are possible today across parts of the Southeast into the Hudson Valley. ...Synopsis... A progressive mid/upper-level pattern features broadly cyclonic flow over most of the CONUS, except for a narrow zone of ridging now located from the Four Corners region to central Canada. An upstream trough will move across the northern High Plains and central/ southern Rockies. Its field of UVV/cooling aloft will support isolated thunder potential in the four Corners region, in concert with marginal low/middle-level moisture. Downstream, a complex synoptic trough extends from northern ON across the lower Missouri Valley and southern Plains States. One previously intense shortwave trough is located over portions of the Lake Michigan region, and will continue to weaken as it ejects northeastward today. Another perturbation is evident in moisture- channel imagery over eastern KS, western OK and the TX Panhandle. This feature will pivot eastward across the Mid-South by 00Z, then weaken and eject to the inland Mid-Atlantic by 12Z tomorrow. Strong southwest flow aloft (e.g., a 120-140-kt 250-mb jet, and 90-105 kt at 500 mb) will extend from the Gulf Coast States to the Carolinas today, ahead of the second shortwave trough. At the surface, 11Z analysis showed a deep (978 mb), occluded surface low near HTL, which will eject northeastward across ON and northern QC through the period. The associated surface cold front was drawn across western OH, eastern parts of KY/TN, northern AL, and extreme southeastern LA. This front should sweep eastward/ southeastward to central portions of NY/PA/VA by 00Z, extending southwestward across the FL Panhandle to the central Gulf. By 12Z, the front should extend from portions of ME, near Cape Cod, to near the NC Outer Banks, and across northern FL. ...Southeastern CONUS to Hudson Valley region... The earliest threat area is ongoing -- across portions of the FL Panhandle, southern GA and northwestern FL. See SPC tornado watch 85 and related mesoscale discussions for details on the near-term threats with this activity. A broad plume of low-level theta-e advection will combine with muted diurnal heating to at least marginally destabilize the boundary layer today, in a broad swath from the Carolinas into the northern Mid-Atlantic. This will support additional bands of scattered to numerous showers, and widely scattered to scattered thunderstorms, expected to develop from the southern Piedmont to the central Appalachians and move quickly northeastward across the outlook area today. A mixed mode of QLCS (bows, LEWPs and embedded mesovortices) and a few supercells are possible, supporting a threat for damaging gusts (a few severe at 50+ kt intensity) and a few tornadoes. With weakly unstable lapse rates, preconvective dewpoints reaching the mid 50s north to mid 50s south will be counterbalanced by somewhat colder air aloft in the mid-Atlantic, warmer over the Carolinas to Delmarva. The 12Z IAD sounding sampled a likely narrow ribbon of a remnant of the southern Plains EML, within a broader area of weak 600-800-mb lapse rates. Peak warm-sector MLCAPE should reach the 100-500 J/kg range over the Mid-Atlantic and 500-1000 J/kg over the Carolinas, and 1000-1500 J/kg in southeastern GA and northern FL. As noted above, the strongest mid/upper winds will be over the middle parts of the outlook area today, while a 60-75-kt LLJ takes shape from the Carolinas into the eastern Mid-Atlantic. This will foster effective-shear magnitudes peaking around 60-75 kt in the NC/VA/MD region, decreasing but still strong northward and southward. Meanwhile, lengthy hodographs will support effective SRH in the 200-400 J/kg range over much of the corridor. Strongest forcing for ascent should be ahead of the front in the northern parts of the area where buoyancy is weakest, in a strong-shear/ low-CAPE scenario. Uncertainty remains as to coverage of severe gusts reaching the surface given some constraints on low-level lapse rates, but even subsevere winds will be capable of minor structural damage and trees down. ..Edwards/Broyles.. 03/31/2022 Read more

SPC 1300Z Day 1 Outlook
Day 1 Convective Outlook NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK 0753 AM CDT Thu Mar 31 2022 Valid 311300Z - 011200Z ...THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS PARTS OF THE SOUTHEAST INTO THE HUDSON VALLEY... ...SUMMARY... Damaging thunderstorm gusts and a few tornadoes are possible today across parts of the Southeast into the Hudson Valley. ...Synopsis... A progressive mid/upper-level pattern features broadly cyclonic flow over most of the CONUS, except for a narrow zone of ridging now located from the Four Corners region to central Canada. An upstream trough will move across the northern High Plains and central/ southern Rockies. Its field of UVV/cooling aloft will support isolated thunder potential in the four Corners region, in concert with marginal low/middle-level moisture. Downstream, a complex synoptic trough extends from northern ON across the lower Missouri Valley and southern Plains States. One previously intense shortwave trough is located over portions of the Lake Michigan region, and will continue to weaken as it ejects northeastward today. Another perturbation is evident in moisture- channel imagery over eastern KS, western OK and the TX Panhandle. This feature will pivot eastward across the Mid-South by 00Z, then weaken and eject to the inland Mid-Atlantic by 12Z tomorrow. Strong southwest flow aloft (e.g., a 120-140-kt 250-mb jet, and 90-105 kt at 500 mb) will extend from the Gulf Coast States to the Carolinas today, ahead of the second shortwave trough. At the surface, 11Z analysis showed a deep (978 mb), occluded surface low near HTL, which will eject northeastward across ON and northern QC through the period. The associated surface cold front was drawn across western OH, eastern parts of KY/TN, northern AL, and extreme southeastern LA. This front should sweep eastward/ southeastward to central portions of NY/PA/VA by 00Z, extending southwestward across the FL Panhandle to the central Gulf. By 12Z, the front should extend from portions of ME, near Cape Cod, to near the NC Outer Banks, and across northern FL. ...Southeastern CONUS to Hudson Valley region... The earliest threat area is ongoing -- across portions of the FL Panhandle, southern GA and northwestern FL. See SPC tornado watch 85 and related mesoscale discussions for details on the near-term threats with this activity. A broad plume of low-level theta-e advection will combine with muted diurnal heating to at least marginally destabilize the boundary layer today, in a broad swath from the Carolinas into the northern Mid-Atlantic. This will support additional bands of scattered to numerous showers, and widely scattered to scattered thunderstorms, expected to develop from the southern Piedmont to the central Appalachians and move quickly northeastward across the outlook area today. A mixed mode of QLCS (bows, LEWPs and embedded mesovortices) and a few supercells are possible, supporting a threat for damaging gusts (a few severe at 50+ kt intensity) and a few tornadoes. With weakly unstable lapse rates, preconvective dewpoints reaching the mid 50s north to mid 50s south will be counterbalanced by somewhat colder air aloft in the mid-Atlantic, warmer over the Carolinas to Delmarva. The 12Z IAD sounding sampled a likely narrow ribbon of a remnant of the southern Plains EML, within a broader area of weak 600-800-mb lapse rates. Peak warm-sector MLCAPE should reach the 100-500 J/kg range over the Mid-Atlantic and 500-1000 J/kg over the Carolinas, and 1000-1500 J/kg in southeastern GA and northern FL. As noted above, the strongest mid/upper winds will be over the middle parts of the outlook area today, while a 60-75-kt LLJ takes shape from the Carolinas into the eastern Mid-Atlantic. This will foster effective-shear magnitudes peaking around 60-75 kt in the NC/VA/MD region, decreasing but still strong northward and southward. Meanwhile, lengthy hodographs will support effective SRH in the 200-400 J/kg range over much of the corridor. Strongest forcing for ascent should be ahead of the front in the northern parts of the area where buoyancy is weakest, in a strong-shear/ low-CAPE scenario. Uncertainty remains as to coverage of severe gusts reaching the surface given some constraints on low-level lapse rates, but even subsevere winds will be capable of minor structural damage and trees down. ..Edwards/Broyles.. 03/31/2022 Read more

WW 0084 Status Updates
STATUS REPORT ON WW 84 SEVERE WEATHER THREAT CONTINUES RIGHT OF A LINE FROM 30 WSW PFN TO 15 E DHN TO 40 NNE DHN TO 10 SW AUO TO 20 NNW LGC TO 30 ESE RMG. ..BROYLES..03/31/22 ATTN...WFO...BMX...TAE...FFC... STATUS REPORT FOR WT 84 SEVERE WEATHER THREAT CONTINUES FOR THE FOLLOWING AREAS ALC067-069-081-113-311040- AL . ALABAMA COUNTIES INCLUDED ARE HENRY HOUSTON LEE RUSSELL FLC005-013-037-039-045-063-073-077-129-133-311040- FL . FLORIDA COUNTIES INCLUDED ARE BAY CALHOUN FRANKLIN GADSDEN GULF JACKSON LEON LIBERTY WAKULLA WASHINGTON GAC007-037-053-061-077-087-095-099-131-145-149-197-199-201-205- 215-239-243-253-259-263-273-285-307-311040- GA Read more

Half Moon Bay’s main water provider, the Coastside County Water District, declared a water shortage emergency on March 24, prompting a move to the second stage of the Water Shortage Contingency Plan. The aim is to reduce water sales by 17 percent, mostly through curbing outdoor irrigation by 50 percent from 2020 levels. All residential customers are asked to keep their water use to 50 gallons or less daily. Some mandatory restrictions took effect also. People are not to use water to clean pavement, except for health or safety reasons, or use a hose without a shut-off nozzle. Half Moon Bay Review (Calif.), March 30, 2022

On the Trabuco Ranger District in the Holy Jim Canyon area, the Jim Fire began March 2, 2022, at approximately 11:06 a.m. U.S. Forest Service firefighters responded with fire engines, hand crews, and air resources, assisted by the Orange County Fire Authority and Cal Fire Riverside Unit resources. The fire started in a drainage bottom and spread uphill, consuming approximately 500 acres of vegetation. The Jim Fire investigation has concluded. U.S. Forest Service investigators determined the fire was unintentionally ignited during a Forest Service-sponsored wildlife and habitat restoration maintenance project during barrier removal. No structures were destroyed. Three minor injuries to firefighters have been reported. The fire was declared out on Sunday March 27, 2022. 553 acres, 100%

 The Dean Fire started on March 29, 2022 at approximately 3:00 pm. It is located in Cochran County just off of county road 1585.The Texas A&M Forest service is in unified command with the local

Some Nevada ranchers were already hauling water for livestock, per a rangeland management specialist for the Bureau of Land Management. Reno Gazette (Nev.), March 30, 2022

Seasonal creeks and ponds were going dry in many parts of California; reduced forage has many ranchers selling livestock early; and some grains in San Joaquin County are not expected to reach crop size and were instead used for grazing, according to a University of California Cooperative Extension person. Reno Gazette (Nev.), March 30, 2022

WW 0075 Status Updates
STATUS REPORT ON WW 75 SEVERE WEATHER THREAT CONTINUES RIGHT OF A LINE FROM 35 NNW LFK TO 5 E GGG TO 30 SW TXK TO 20 ESE DEQ TO 30 WNW HOT TO 20 SW RUE TO 35 NNW RUE TO 10 SSE HRO TO 10 SSW TBN. ..WENDT..03/30/22 ATTN...WFO...LZK...SHV...SGF... STATUS REPORT FOR WT 75 SEVERE WEATHER THREAT CONTINUES FOR THE FOLLOWING AREAS ARC001-005-011-013-019-023-025-027-029-039-041-043-045-049-051- 053-057-059-061-063-065-067-069-073-075-079-085-089-091-095-097- 099-103-105-109-115-117-119-121-125-129-135-137-139-141-145-147- 301540- AR . ARKANSAS COUNTIES INCLUDED ARE ARKANSAS BAXTER BRADLEY CALHOUN CLARK CLEBURNE CLEVELAND COLUMBIA CONWAY DALLAS DESHA DREW FAULKNER FULTON GARLAND GRANT HEMPSTEAD HOT SPRING HOWARD INDEPENDENCE IZARD JACKSON JEFFERSON LAFAYETTE LAWRENCE LINCOLN LONOKE MARION MILLER MONROE MONTGOMERY NEVADA OUACHITA PERRY PIKE POPE PRAIRIE PULASKI RANDOLPH SALINE SEARCY SHARP STONE UNION VAN BUREN WHITE WOODRUFF Read more

WW 75 TORNADO AR LA MO OK TX 301025Z - 301800Z
URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED Tornado Watch Number 75 NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK 525 AM CDT Wed Mar 30 2022 The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a * Tornado Watch for portions of Arkansas Northern Louisiana Southern Missouri Extreme southeastern Oklahoma Northeast and extreme east Texas * Effective this Wednesday morning and afternoon from 525 AM until 100 PM CDT. * Primary threats include... A few tornadoes likely with a couple intense tornadoes possible Scattered damaging winds likely with isolated significant gusts to 80 mph possible Isolated large hail events to 1 inch in diameter possible SUMMARY...A broken band of thunderstorms is expected to reorient more north-south and gradually intensify through the morning and into midday, as it crosses the watch area. The southern end of the activity also may expand and become severe as it crosses from Texas into Louisiana and shifts eastward. Strengthening deep-layer wind fields and increasing moisture will favor a threat for tornadoes and severe gusts from this activity. The tornado watch area is approximately along and 80 statute miles east and west of a line from 45 miles south of Shreveport LA to 25 miles northwest of West Plains MO. For a complete depiction of the watch see the associated watch outline update (WOUS64 KWNS WOU5). PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... REMEMBER...A Tornado Watch means conditions are favorable for tornadoes and severe thunderstorms in and close to the watch area. Persons in these areas should be on the lookout for threatening weather conditions and listen for later statements and possible warnings. && OTHER WATCH INFORMATION...CONTINUE...WW 74... AVIATION...Tornadoes and a few severe thunderstorms with hail surface and aloft to 1 inch. Extreme turbulence and surface wind gusts to 70 knots. A few cumulonimbi with maximum tops to 450. Mean storm motion vector 23045. ...Edwards Read more