Wildfire, Hartley
- When
- June 15, 8:00 PM CST to June 20, 5:00 PM CST
- Where
- Hartley forecast zone
- Crop damage
- $2.5 million
- Reported by
- FIRE DEPT/RESCUE SQUAD
- Coordinates
- 35.840, -102.603 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Wildfire in Texas, June 15 to 20, 2006
S. burned five thousand acres and caused damage to rangeland.
Where it happened
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- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- $2.5 million
- Events
- 1
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
What happened
The episode as NWS AMA wrote it up.
A wildfire two and a half miles northeast of Romero off U.S. Highway 54...which was started by lightning...burned five thousand acres and caused damage to rangeland. Firefighters reported eight to eleven foot flame lengths along with crowning...torching and spotting control problems. No structural damage and no injuries were reported.
What forecasters said that day
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 Amarillo, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 15, 7:42 PM CST, 18 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 15, 7:42 PM CST, 18 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 842 PM CDT THU JUN 15 2006 .UPDATE... ALLOWED RED FLAG WARNING TO EXPIRE AT 01Z AS WX CONDITIONS AND CRITERIA NO LONGER BEING MET. REST OF PCKG LEFT INTACT AT THIS TIME. && .PREV DISCUSSION... (ISSUED 550 PM CDT THU JUN 15 2006) UPDATE... UPDATED TO INCLUDE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 486. ALSO...STRONG LOW LEVEL FLOW WILL AGGRESSIVELY USHER IN WARMER DEWPOINTS DURING THE EVENING...SO FRESHENED UP WIND AND DEWPOINT GRIDS. FINALLY...INCREASED POPS TO PAINT ISOLATED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS AREAWIDE. PREV DISCUSSION... (ISSUED 315 PM CDT THU JUN 15 2006) DISCUSSION... TEMPS WARMED TO ABV 100 DEG F THIS AFTN ACROSS WRN ZONES. DWPTS BLO 45 DEG F CONFINED TO WRN ZONES WHERE RED FLAG WRNG WILL REMAIN IN EFFECT TIL 8 PM. SCT TSTMS DVLPG OVER WRN HALF OF PNHDLS AT THIS TIME WHERE HOT TEMPS ATTAINED AND STRONGER MID-LVL FLOW EXISTS. WNDS WILL DIMINISH A BIT OVERNIGHT...AND WILL INCREASE AGAIN ON FRI... ESPECIALLY OVER EASTERN ZONES. WESTERN ZONES WILL BE DRIER BEHIND DRYLN...BUT PRESSURE GRADIENT DOES NOT LOOK STRONG ENOUGH TO SUPPORT WINDS TO MEET RED FLAG CRITERION. POTENT VORT MAX WILL CAUSE INSTBY TO BE RELEASED ALONG/AHEAD OF DRYLN...SO HIGH CHC POPS RETAINED FOR ERN HALF OF FCST AREA FOR FRI AFTN/NGT. LINGERING MID-LVL MSTR BEHIND DEPARTING MID-LVL TROF MAY SUPPORT FEW SHRA/TSTMS...SO SGLT CHC POPS RETAINED. NO PCPN IN FCST SUN THRU THU. MODERATE SLY AND SELY SFC WNDS EXPECTED TO PREVAIL SUN THRU THU...KEEPING RH VALUES FROM CRATERING. COCKRELL FIRE WEATHER... RH VALUES EXPECTED TO DROP TO 15 PCT OR BELOW OVER WRN ZONES ON FRI...BUT WND SPEEDS EXPECTED TO DIMINISH DURING THE AFTN. WSHFT LINE ENTERING NWRN ZONES WILL BRING COOLER AIR AND HIGHER DWPTS BEHIND IT. EASTERN ZONES WILL BLOW HARDER...BUT RH VALUES WILL REMAIN WELL ABOVE RED FLAG CRITERION. JRC && .AMA WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... OK...NONE. TX...NONE. && ANDRADE
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 15, 4:10 PM CST, 3 hours 50 minutes before
TEXAS/OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 510 PM CDT THU JUN 15 2006 OKZ001>003-TXZ001>020-161100- ARMSTRONG-BEAVER-CARSON-CIMARRON-COLLINGSWORTH-DALLAM-DEAF SMITH- DONLEY-GRAY-HANSFORD-HARTLEY-HEMPHILL-HUTCHINSON-LIPSCOMB-MOORE- OCHILTREE-OLDHAM-POTTER-RANDALL-ROBERTS-SHERMAN-TEXAS-WHEELER- 510 PM CDT THU JUN 15 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE TEXAS AND OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES. .DAY ONE... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ISSUED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 486 UNTIL 11 PM CDT. THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE ACROSS MUCH OF THE PANHANDLES THROUGH TONIGHT. SOME STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE WITH THE MAIN THREATS BEING DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. CAUTION IS ADVISED ON AREA LAKES THROUGH TONIGHT DUE TO THE STRONGER WINDS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE FRIDAY THROUGH SUNDAY NIGHT. THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FRIDAY GENERALLY EAST OF A GUYMON OKLAHOMA TO AMARILLO TEXAS LINE. LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS AND BRIEF HEAVY RAIN WILL BE POSSIBLE. THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE WEEKEND ARE EXPECTED TO REMAIN BELOW SEVERE LEVELS AT THIS TIME. WEATHER CONDITIONS WILL CAUSE THE FIRE DANGER TO REMAIN HIGH ON FRIDAY...ESPECIALLY ACROSS THE WESTERN PANHANDLES. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME. NUNEZ
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 15, 5:49 PM CST, 2 hours 11 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 649 PM CDT THU JUN 15 2006 TXZ006-007-011-012-160030- HARTLEY TX-MOORE TX-OLDHAM TX-POTTER TX- 649 PM CDT THU JUN 15 2006 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM IN SOUTHEASTERN HARTLEY...SOUTHWESTERN MOORE...NORTHEASTERN OLDHAM AND NORTHWESTERN POTTER COUNTIES... AT 649 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 11 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MASTERSON MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. STORM INTENSITY IS INCREASING AND SEVERE WEATHER MAY DEVELOP RAPIDLY. ONE HALF INCH SIZE HAIL AND WINDS AROUND 50 MPH ARE POSSIBLE. TAKE SHELTER UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. KRAMAR
Special weather statement, Jun 15, 6:39 PM CST, 1 hour 21 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 739 PM CDT THU JUN 15 2006 TXZ002-160115- SHERMAN TX- 739 PM CDT THU JUN 15 2006 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM IN EASTERN SHERMAN COUNTY... AT 739 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 21 MILES SOUTH OF TEXHOMA MOVING NORTHEAST AT 55 MPH. ONE HALF INCH SIZE HAIL AND WINDS AROUND 50 MPH ARE POSSIBLE. KRAMAR
Special weather statement, Jun 15, 6:52 PM CST, 1 hour 8 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 752 PM CDT THU JUN 15 2006 OKZ001-160115- CIMARRON OK- 752 PM CDT THU JUN 15 2006 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM TO AFFECT NORTHWESTERN CIMARRON COUNTY... AT 752 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 12 MILES SOUTHWEST OF KENTON MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH. STRONG AND GUSTY WINDS AROUND 55 MPH ARE POSSIBLE. KRAMAR
Special weather statement, Jun 15, 6:55 PM CST, 1 hour 5 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 755 PM CDT THU JUN 15 2006 TXZ001-160130- DALLAM TX- 755 PM CDT THU JUN 15 2006 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM IN WESTERN DALLAM COUNTY... AT 755 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 12 MILES NORTHWEST OF WARE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH. STRONG AND GUSTY WINDS AROUND 55 MPH ARE POSSIBLE. KRAMAR
Special weather statement, Jun 15, 7:14 PM CST, 46 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 814 PM CDT THU JUN 15 2006 TXZ002-003-007-160145- HANSFORD TX-MOORE TX-SHERMAN TX- 814 PM CDT THU JUN 15 2006 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM IN SOUTHWESTERN HANSFORD...NORTHEASTERN MOORE AND SOUTHEASTERN SHERMAN COUNTIES... AT 814 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES EAST OF SUNRAY MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. ONE HALF INCH SIZE HAIL AND WINDS AROUND 50 MPH ARE POSSIBLE. THIS STORM COULD BECOME SEVERE VERY RAPIDLY. TAKE SHELTER NOW UNTIL THE STORM PASSES. KRAMAR
Special weather statement, Jun 15, 7:45 PM CST, 15 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 845 PM CDT THU JUN 15 2006 TXZ003-160215- HANSFORD TX- 845 PM CDT THU JUN 15 2006 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM IN HANSFORD COUNTY... AT 845 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 9 MILES SOUTHWEST OF GRUVER MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. ONE HALF INCH SIZE HAIL AND WINDS AROUND 50 MPH ARE POSSIBLE. KRAMAR
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
1 wildfire. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Wildfire
- A fire burning in wildland vegetation, with its acreage and damage where known.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Wildfire in Texas, June 15 to 22, 2006
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Nebraska, June 15, 2006
- Wildfire in Texas, June 15 to 17, 2006
- High Wind in Colorado, June 15, 2006
- Damaging Wind in Kansas, June 15, 2006
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Kansas, June 15, 2006
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Nebraska, June 15, 2006
- Tornado in Puerto Rico, June 15, 2006
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Kansas, June 15, 2006
- Wildfire in Colorado, June 15 to 16, 2006
- High Wind in New Mexico, June 15, 2006
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Texas, June 15, 2006
More
Every storm in Texas in 2006Every state in 2006This day in weather historyWarnings in Texas, June 2006
Sources
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5517169.