1 wildfire, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS San Angelo, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jan 18, 2:59 PM CST, 31 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 259 PM CST WED JAN 18 2006 .SHORT TERM (TONIGHT-FRIDAY)...WARM...WINDY DAY ONGOING WITH RED FLAG CONDITIONS ONGOING THIS AFTERNOON. ONLY ONE FIRE SEEN ON THE SATELLITE IN SOUTHEAST TOM GREEN COUNTY THIS AFTERNOON WITH ANOTHER ONE JUST ACROSS THE FISHER COUNTY LINE IN SOUTHEAST SCURRY COUNTY. OTHERWISE WINDS TO STAY UP MOST OF THE NIGHT AS LOW PRESSURE CONTINUES TO DEVELOP IN WESTERN KANSAS AND MOVE TO THE EAST. WITH A WELL MIXED ATMOSPHERE...TEMPERATURES SHOULD STAY WARM TONIGHT WITH THE EXCEPTION OF THE PROTECTED VALLEYS. WARM START WITH PRE-FRONTAL CONDITIONS ON THURSDAY...WILL SEE WARM TEMPERATURES TOMORROW WELL INTO THE 70S AND APPROACHING 80 IN A FEW LOCATIONS. WITH THE APPROACH OF A SURFACE TROUGH SHOULD SEE WINDS SLACKEN SOME TOMORROW MORE TOWARDS THE 15 TO 25 MPH RANGE WITH WINDS CONTINUING TO SLACKEN THROUGH THE DAY AS TROUGH APPROACHES. FRONT REMAINS ON TRACK TO MOVE THROUGH THE AREA LATE THURSDAY NIGHT/EARLY FRIDAY MORNING...RESULTING COOLER TEMPERATURES FOR FRIDAY. STILL RAIN CHANCES LOOK SLIM AS BEST MOISTURE REMAINS TO THE EAST. .LONG TERM (FRIDAY NIGHT-WEDNESDAY)...COOLER STILL ON SATURDAY AS SURFACE HIGH PASSES THROUGH THE AREA. AT THE SAME TIME...LONG WAVE TROUGH DEVELOPING IN THE WEST WILL INDUCE PRESSURE FALLS ACROSS WEST TEXAS ONCE AGAIN. AGAIN THIS TROUGH IS LOOKING TO BE FURTHER TO THE SOUTH THAN THE PAST FEW AND BETTER YET LOOKS LIKE IT WANTS TO TAKE ON A NEGATIVE TILT. THIS WILL ALLOW MORE MOISTURE TO RUN OVER THE FRONTAL SURFACE AS THE FRONT LOOKS TO BE JUST STATIONARY TO THE SOUTH OF THE AREA. WITH SUPPORT FROM THE ECMWF AND FOUR OR FIVE RUNS IN A ROW FROM THE GFS INDICATING THIS TREND...RAIN CHANCES WILL BE RAISED SLIGHTLY FROM PREVIOUS FORECAST. STILL RAIN AMOUNTS LOOK TO BE LIMITED AT THIS POINT AND LITTLE TO NO RELIEF FROM THE DRY WEATHER IS EXPECTED. WITH THE CLOUDS...AND POSSIBLE RAINFALL...WILL BE GOING RATHER COOL SUNDAY. RAIN CHANCES TAPER OFF INTO EARLY MONDAY...HOWEVER GFS WANTS TO HANG MAJORITY OF THE THROUGH BACK TO THE WEST AND THUS KEEP CLOUDS AND PRECIPITATION CHANCES GOING IN THE SOUTHEASTERN PORTION OF THE FORECAST AREA. THIS NOT AS WELL SUPPORTED BY THE ECMWF...AND WILL SPLIT THE DIFFERENCE THROUGH NEXT WEDNESDAY. BRAZZELL && .FIRE WEATHER...RED FLAG CONDITIONS CURRENTLY ONGOING AND WILL CONTINUE THE CURRENT WARNING THROUGH 7 PM. AM CONCERNED THAT RH RECOVERY WILL BE POOR THIS EVENING DUE TO CONTINUED MIXING. WILL KEEP THE CURRENT FIRE WEATHER WATCH UP FOR TOMORROW AFTERNOON AS WINDS LOOK LIKE THEY MAY NOT GET TO CRITERIA AS GRADIENT DECREASES. NEVER THE LESS WILL BE CLOSE AND WILL MAINTAIN THE WATCH. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... ABILENE 45 76 47 65 / 0 0 10 10 SAN ANGELO 44 79 47 69 / 0 0 10 10 JUNCTION 39 78 45 71 / 0 0 10 10 && .SJT WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... RED FLAG WARNING UNTIL 7 PM WEDNESDAY FOR THE FOLLOWING ZONES: BROWN...CALLAHAN...COKE...COLEMAN...CONCHO...CROCKETT...FISHER... HASKELL...IRION...JONES...KIMBLE...MASON...MCCULLOCH...MENARD... NOLAN...RUNNELS...SAN SABA...SCHLEICHER...SHACKELFORD... STERLING...SUTTON...TAYLOR...THROCKMORTON...AND TOM GREEN. LAKE WIND ADVISORY UNTIL 7 PM WEDNESDAY FOR THE FOLLOWING ZONES: BROWN...COKE...COLEMAN...CONCHO...HASKELL...JONES...MCCULLOCH... NOLAN...RUNNELS...TAYLOR...AND TOM GREEN. FIRE WEATHER WATCH FROM 11 AM THURSDAY TO 7 PM THURSDAY FOR THE FOLLOWING ZONES: BROWN...CALLAHAN...COKE...COLEMAN...CONCHO... CROCKETT...FISHER...HASKELL...IRION...JONES...KIMBLE...MASON... MCCULLOCH...MENARD...NOLAN...RUNNELS...SAN SABA...SCHLEICHER... SHACKELFORD...STERLING...SUTTON...TAYLOR...THROCKMORTON...AND TOM GREEN. &&
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 220 PM CST WED JAN 18 2006 TXZ049-054-064>066-071>073-076>078-098-099-113-114-127-128-139- 140-154-155-168>170-192030- FISHER-NOLAN-STERLING-COKE-RUNNELS-IRION-TOM GREEN-CONCHO- CROCKETT-SCHLEICHER-SUTTON-HASKELL-THROCKMORTON-JONES-SHACKELFORD- TAYLOR-CALLAHAN-COLEMAN-BROWN-MCCULLOCH-SAN SABA-MENARD-KIMBLE- MASON- 220 PM CST WED JAN 18 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF WEST CENTRAL TEXAS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT A HIGH FIRE DANGER CONTINUES THIS AFTERNOON ACROSS WEST CENTRAL TEXAS AS WINDS GUST OVER 30 MPH AND RELATIVE HUMIDITY LEVELS FALL INTO THE SINGLE DIGITS. THE HIGH WINDS AND VERY DRY AIR WILL ALLOW ANY FIRES TO SPREAD RAPIDLY. A RED FLAG WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 7 PM TONIGHT. TO STOP DISASTROUS WILD FIRES...THE TEXAS FOREST SERVICE AND THE GOVERNORS DIVISION OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT REMIND YOU TO HELP PREVENT DEADLY WILD FIRES. DO NOT THROW BURNING CIGARETTES ON THE GROUND. DO NOT BURN TRASH. REMEMBER TOO THAT ACCIDENTAL FIRES CAN START FROM MACHINERY AND MOTOR VEHICLES. IF A WILDFIRE ESCAPES AN INITIAL ATTACK...RESIDENTS ARE ADVISED TO EVACUATE IMMEDIATELY FOR A SAFE ZONE. MAYORS AND OR COUNTY JUDGES HAVE THE AUTHORITY TO DEMAND MANDATORY EVACUATIONS WITHIN TEXAS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY WINDS WILL INCREASE AGAIN LATE TONIGHT INTO THURSDAY WITH ANOTHER ELEVATED WILDFIRE RISK ON THURSDAY. ALTHOUGH WINDS WILL NOT BE QUITE AS STRONG...THE AIRMASS WILL REMAIN VERY DRY AND DEAD VEGETATION WILL AID THE SPREAD OF WILDFIRES. A FIRE WEATHER WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THURSDAY. A STORM SYSTEM MOVING ACROSS WEST CENTRAL TEXAS LATE THIS WEEKEND COULD BRING A SLIGHT CHANCE OF RAIN ON SUNDAY AND MONDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 wildfire. Local standard time, as filed.
The Old Cemetary fire just to the north of Sonora burned around 1 thousand acres.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Texas in 2006Every state in 2006This day in weather historyWarnings in Texas, January 2006
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