Wildfire, Dallam
- When
- March 14, 12:00 PM CST to March 15, 2:00 AM CST
- Where
- Dallam forecast zone
- Reported by
- Fire Department/Rescue
- Coordinates
- 36.278, -102.602 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Wildfire in Texas, March 14 to 15, 2007
A wildfire three miles northeast of Texline was started by a drilling crew cooking on a grill. The wildfire was mapped on a GPS unit and burned one thousand five hundred and twenty-eight point ninety acres.
Where it happened
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The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- 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 three miles northeast of Texline was started by a drilling crew cooking on a grill. The wildfire was mapped on a GPS unit and burned one thousand five hundred and twenty-eight point ninety acres.
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 Mar 14, 5:45 AM CST, 6 hours 15 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 14, 5:45 AM CST, 6 hours 15 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 645 AM CDT WED MAR 14 2007 .AVIATION... SURFACE WINDS HAVE BECOME SOUTHWESTERLY AND WILL CONTINUE TO VEER AROUND TO THE NORTH BY THIS AFTERNOON. KDHT AND KGUY COULD SEE WIND SPEEDS APPROACH 15 KTS OUT OF THE NORTH THIS AFTERNOON...BUT WINDS AT KAMA SHOULD STAY BELOW THAT. VFR CONDITIONS WILL CONTINUE. JORDAN && .PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 403 AM CDT WED MAR 14 2007/ DISCUSSION... A TROUGH WILL ENTER THE AREA THIS MORNING AND PRODUCE A WINDSHIFT JUST AFTER DAYBREAK. THE GFS BRINGS ANOTHER TROUGH INTO THE CWA THURSDAY AND BREAKS OUT PRECIPITATION MAINLY OVERNIGHT INTO EARLY FRIDAY MORNING. THE MODELS DO NOT AGREE WITH STARTING PRECIPITATION THURSDAY AFTERNOON. DID NOT MAKE ANY CHANGES THERE. A RIDGING PATTERN TAKES CONTROL FOR NEXT WEEKEND AND RESULTS IN A WARM UP. THE SURFACE PRESSURE GRADIENT TIGHTENS SOMEWHAT WITH THE PATTERN SHIFT ON SATURDAY BUT DID NOT SEE ANY NEED TO GO WINDY AT THIS TIME. AT THE SAME TIME...TROUGHING OCCURS ALONG THE WEST COAST WITH SEVERAL DISTURBANCES BEGINNING TO MOVE THROUGH THE FLOW. THE STRONGEST SYSTEM IN THE FLOW MOVES OVER THE PANHANDLES LATE MONDAY. AT THE SAME TIME...THE COLD AIR MASS SETTLING OVER THE EASTERN US BRUSHES THE PANHANDLES AND MAY SET THE STAGE FOR PRECIPITATION EARLY NEXT WEEK. FOR NOW...WILL GO WITH THE CURRENT POP STRUCTURE. && .AMA WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... TX...NONE. OK...NONE. && 17/21
Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 14, 12:00 PM CST, 0 minutes before
TEXAS/OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 100 PM CDT WED MAR 14 2007 OKZ001>003-TXZ001>020-151100- ARMSTRONG-BEAVER-CARSON-CIMARRON-COLLINGSWORTH-DALLAM-DEAF SMITH- DONLEY-GRAY-HANSFORD-HARTLEY-HEMPHILL-HUTCHINSON-LIPSCOMB-MOORE- OCHILTREE-OLDHAM-POTTER-RANDALL-ROBERTS-SHERMAN-TEXAS-WHEELER- 100 PM CDT WED MAR 14 2007 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE TEXAS AND OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES. .DAY ONE... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. GOEHRING
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
- Flash Flood in Minnesota, March 14 to 17, 2007
- Flooding in New York, March 14 to 18, 2007
- Flash Flooding in Iowa, March 14, 2007
- Tornado and Hail in Ohio, March 14, 2007
- Flooding in New York, March 14 to 18, 2007
- Flooding and Hail in Ohio, March 14, 2007
- Flooding and Damaging Wind in Pennsylvania, March 14 to 15, 2007
- Marine Thunderstorm Winds in Gulf of Mexico, March 14, 2007
- Heavy Rain in Hawaii, March 14 to 16, 2007
- Flooding and Hail in Ohio, March 14 to 15, 2007
- Hail and Damaging Wind in West Virginia, March 14, 2007
- Flooding and Hail in West Virginia, March 14 to 15, 2007
More
Every storm in Texas in 2007Every state in 2007This day in weather historyWarnings in Texas, March 2007
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: 19296.