FNUS73 KLBF 231646 FWSLBF Spot Forecast for Cherry County Wildfires...Cherry/Keya Paha County Emergency Management National Weather Service North Platte NE 1146 AM CDT Thu Apr 23 2026 Forecast is based on forecast start time of 1200 CDT on April 23. If conditions become unrepresentative...contact the National Weather Service. Please contact the NWS North Platte office at 308-532-0921 (or at 1-800-603-3562) if you have any questions or concerns with this forecast. ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM CDT THIS EVENING... .DISCUSSION... West-northwesterly winds, gusting as high as 40 MPH, will shift to the northwest around 1 PM MDT. Winds will remain at that speed and direction through around 7 PM MDT with a shift to the north thereafter. Wind speeds will diminish this evening to 15 to 25 MPH, diminishing to 10 to 15 MPH overnight. Winds on Friday will begin from the north at 10 to 15 MPH, shifting to the northeast decreasing further to 5 to 10 MPH by late morning. Winds will then shift to the southwest in the afternoon with wind speeds around 10 MPH. There will be a threat for isolated rain showers between 3 and 7 PM MDT this afternoon. These showers will be high based, producing little to no rainfall. However, winds in the vicinity of the showers may gusty and erratic. Minimum RH this afternoon will bottom out around 20 percent. RH recovery tonight will reach around 80 percent. Minimum RH Friday will reach around 25 percent. .REST OF TODAY... Sky/weather.........Sunny. Slight chance of showers in the afternoon. Max temperature.....Around 66. Min humidity........20 percent. Wind (20 ft)........Breezy. Northwest winds 26 to 29 mph with gusts to around 40 mph. Eye level winds.....Breezy. Northwest winds 16 to 17 mph with gusts to around 24 mph. TIME (CDT) 12P 1PM 2PM 3PM 4PM 5PM Sky (%).........12 7 15 20 31 41 Weather cov..... SCH SCH SCH SCH SCH Weather type.... RW RW RW RW RW Tstm cov........ Temp............61 64 65 65 64 63 RH..............23 20 20 22 24 24 20 FT wind dir..W W W NW NW NW 20 FT wind spd..29 28 26 26 26 26 20 FT wind gust.40 39 37 37 37 37 Eye lvl wnd dir.W W W NW NW NW Eye lvl wnd spd.17 17 16 16 16 16 Eye lvl wnd gst.24 23 22 22 22 22 .TONIGHT... Sky/weather.........Partly cloudy then becoming mostly cloudy then becoming partly cloudy. Slight chance of showers early in the evening. Min temperature.....Around 31. Max humidity........80 percent. Wind (20 ft)........Northwest winds 16 to 24 mph becoming north 7 to 13 mph in the late evening and overnight. Eye level winds.....North winds up to 12 mph decreasing to up to 6 mph in the late evening and overnight. TIME (CDT) 6PM 7PM 8PM 9PM 10P 11P MID 1AM 2AM 3AM 4AM 5AM Sky (%).........50 56 37 29 37 38 37 29 24 31 28 38 Weather cov.....SCH Weather type....RW Tstm cov........ Temp............61 57 55 50 47 45 42 41 38 37 35 33 RH..............27 30 32 41 45 49 57 59 64 70 72 77 20 FT wind dir..NW NW NW N N N N NE N N N N 20 FT wind spd..24 20 16 13 10 10 8 8 7 7 8 8 20 FT wind gust.33 30 24 20 17 16 14 13 13 13 14 14 Eye lvl wnd dir.NW NW NW N N N N NE N N N N Eye lvl wnd spd.14 12 10 8 6 6 5 5 4 4 5 5 Eye lvl wnd gst.20 18 14 12 10 10 8 8 8 8 8 8 .FRIDAY... Sky/weather.........Partly sunny. Slight chance of showers and snow showers in the morning, then chance of showers and slight chance of thunderstorms in the afternoon. Max temperature.....Around 60. Min humidity........27 percent. Wind (20 ft)........North winds around 8 mph shifting to the east 9 to 10 mph late in the morning, then shifting to the southeast around 10 mph late in the morning shifting to the southwest 10 to 14 mph in the afternoon shifting to the west. Gusty and erratic winds expected near thunderstorms late in the afternoon. Eye level winds.....North winds around 5 mph shifting to the east 5 to 6 mph late in the morning, then shifting to the southeast around 6 mph late in the morning shifting to the southwest 6 to 8 mph in the afternoon shifting to the west. TIME (CDT) 6 AM 8 AM 10 AM NOON 2 PM 4 PM Sky (%).........46 53 50 49 33 68 Weather cov..... S CHC S CHC S CHC CHANCE CHANCE Weather type....NONE SNSHWR RNSHWR RNSHWR RNSHWR RNSHWR Tstm cov........ S CHC Temp............33 32 41 49 56 58 RH..............77 79 53 39 30 27 20 ft wind......N 8 NE 8 E 10 SW 10 SW 12 SW 14 20 ft wind gust.14 14 15 16 18 23 Eye level wind..N 5 NE 5 E 6 SW 6 SW 7 SW 8 Eye lvl wnd gst.8 8 9 10 11 14 $$ Forecaster...Buttler Requested by...Jessica Coyle Type of request...WILDFIRE .TAG 2611420.1/LBF .DELDT 04/23/26 .FormatterVersion 2.0.0 .EMAIL jshaw@keithcountyne.gov,nws.northplatte@noaa.gov,cherrycoem@cherrycountyne.gov