Wildfire, Sherman
- When
- June 7, 10:41 PM CST to June 8, 12:45 AM CST
- Where
- Sherman forecast zone
- Reported by
- Fire Department/Rescue
- Coordinates
- 36.278, -101.893 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Wildfire in Texas, June 7 to 8, 2008
or about one mile south of Farm to Market Road 1573 and about three miles west of Farm to Market Road 119. There were no structural damage or injuries reported.
Where it happened
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- Tornadoes
- 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
- 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.
The wildfire began around 2241 CST about eight miles north northwest of Sunray in southern Sherman County...or about one mile south of Farm to Market Road 1573 and about three miles west of Farm to Market Road 119. There were no structural damage or injuries reported. The wildfire was caused by lightning and five hundred acres burned. A total of three fire departments responded to the wildfire which was contained between 0030 CST and 0100 CST on June 8.
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 7, 9:10 PM CST, 1 hour 31 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 7, 9:10 PM CST, 1 hour 31 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 1010 PM CDT SAT JUN 7 2008 .UPDATE... BASED ON RADAR ACTIVITY NOTED IN WRN PNHDLS ATTM...HAVE EXTENDED ISOLD POPS WWD TO BE LOCATED MORE CLOSELY WITH MSTR DISCONTINUITY. MSTR IS EXPECTED TO SPREAD NWWD AS LOW LVL JET DVLPS AND WINDS REMAIN STG TNGT. GRIDS HAVE BEEN UPDATED TO REFLECT TRENDS...AND UPDATED PRODUCTS HAVE BEEN SENT. KRAMAR && .FIRE WEATHER... WILL DISCONTINUE RED FLAG WRNG AS MSTR SPREADS NWWD OWING TO LOW LVL JET. STG WINDS TO CONT AS PRES GRAD REMAINS TIGHT IN RESPONSE TO APRCHG SHRTWV TROF DUE IN TMW AFTN. UPDATED FIRE WX PRODUCTS HAVE BEEN SENT. KRAMAR && .PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 637 PM CDT SAT JUN 7 2008/ AVIATION... BREEZY TO WINDY CONDITIONS EXPECTED AT TAF SITES THRU TONIGHT AS SFC DRYLINE REMAINS IN ERN NM AND WRN PNHDLS. COULD BE SOME LOW CLOUDS LATE TNGT AT THE SITES...BUT CONFIDENCE LOW AT THIS TIME. SITUATION WILL BE MONITORED HOWEVER. ALSO...OMITTED MENTION OF TSTMS THIS TAF ISSUANCE DUE TO VERY LOW CONFIDENCE. THIS TOO WILL BE WATCHED CLOSELY. WEAK COLD FRONT TO BEGIN AFFECTING NRN TAF SITES DURG THE DAY ON SUNDAY. ANDRADE PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 315 PM CDT SAT JUN 7 2008/ DISCUSSION... DRYLINE HAS MOVED THRU NWRN CORNER OF FCST AREA...WITH CU FIELD CONTINUING TO DEVELOP AHEAD OF THIS FEATURE. WILL CONTINUE MENTION OF ISOLATED EVE TSTMS ALONG AND AHEAD OF DRYLINE POSITION. WINDY CONDITIONS WILL DIMINISH GRADUALLY THIS EVE AS INCOMING DYNAMICS WILL SUPPORT TIGHTENING PRESSURE FIELD. COLD FRONT EXPECTED TO MOVE INTO PNHDLS SUN MRNG...BEFORE STALLING ACROSS TX PNHDL SUN AFTN. DEEP MSTR...INSTBY...SHORTWAVE TROF...AND EXPECTED LACK OF CAP SHOULD RESULT IN TSTMS SUN AFTN AND SUN NGT ALONG AND AHEAD OF COLD FRONT. HAVE INCREASED POPS SUN AFTN AND SUN EVE...AND HAVE MENTIONED SEVERE TSTMS OVER MOST SECTIONS. ON MON...HAVE INCREASED POPS AND HAVE SPREAD THEM FARTHER WWD...DUE TO SLOWER MOVEMENT OF UPPER SUPPORT WHICH WILL SPREAD ACROSS REGION OF UPSLOPE FLOW AND ISENTROPIC UPGLIDE. NO POPS IN REMAINDER OF FCST AT THIS TIME...ALTHOUGH WITH DRYLINE EXPECTED TO SET UP AGAIN TUE THRU WED...POPS MAY BE NEEDED TO BE ADDED OVER SOME PORTIONS OF THE FCST AREA. TUE AND WED EXPECTED TO BE WINDY. NEXT COLD FRONT EXPECTED ON THU...WITH NO POPS DUE TO EXPECTED LACK OF MSTR. STAYED CLOSE TO MOS TEMPS EXCEPT FOR SUN...WHERE HAVE INCREASED MAXIMA BY 2 TO 5 DEG F IN SRN ZONES AND HAVE UNDERCUT MOS BY 1 TO 6 DEG F IN NRN ZONES...AND FOR MON...WHERE HAVE INCREASED MAXIMA BY 2 TO 13 DEG F...ESPECIALLY ACROSS SRN ZONES. O3 COCKRELL FIRE WEATHER... RED FLAG CONDITIONS CURRENTLY BEING MET WEST OF DRYLINE. WILL CONTINUE RED FLAG WRNG THRU 10 PM. WINDS NOT EXPECTED TO BE AS STRONG ON SUN...AND RH VALUES EXPECTED TO STAY WELL ABOVE 15 PCT... BUT WIND SHIFT WITH COLD FRONT MAY PRESENT PROBLEMS FOR ANY FIRE FIGHTING EFFORTS. ELY WINDS ON MON WILL BE MOIST. WINDY CONDITIONS ON TUE EXPECTED TO BE ACCOMPANIED BY RH VALUES ABOVE CRITICAL THRESHOLDS. DRY AND WINDY CONDITIONS ON WED MAY RESULT IN CRITICAL FIRE WX CONDITIONS. POST-FRONTAL AMS ON THU WILL BE DRY... BUT EXCESSIVE WINDS ARE NOT EXPECTED. INCREASING SELY WINDS ON FRI SHOULD BE MOIST. 03 && .AMA WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... TX...NONE. OK...NONE. &&
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 7, 9:15 PM CST, 1 hour 26 minutes before
TEXAS/OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 1015 PM CDT SAT JUN 7 2008 OKZ001>003-TXZ001>020-081100- ARMSTRONG-BEAVER-CARSON-CIMARRON-COLLINGSWORTH-DALLAM-DEAF SMITH- DONLEY-GRAY-HANSFORD-HARTLEY-HEMPHILL-HUTCHINSON-LIPSCOMB-MOORE- OCHILTREE-OLDHAM-POTTER-RANDALL-ROBERTS-SHERMAN-TEXAS-WHEELER- 1015 PM CDT SAT JUN 7 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE TEXAS AND OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES. .DAY ONE... LOW LEVEL MOISTURE AND AN UNSTABLE ATMOSPHERE WILL COMBINE TO BRING A SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS TONIGHT ACROSS THE WESTERN HALF OF THE OKLAHOMA AND TEXAS PANHANDLES. ANY STORMS THAT FORM ARE EXPECTED TO REMAIN JUST BELOW SEVERE LEVELS AT THIS TIME. IN ADDITION...CAUTION IS ADVISED ON AREA LAKES TONIGHT DUE TO SOUTH WINDS OF 20 TO 30 MPH WITH HIGHER GUSTS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE SUNDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH MONDAY ACROSS THE OKLAHOMA AND TEXAS PANHANDLES. SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS BEING THE MAIN THREATS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER GROUPS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OFFICIALS ACROSS ALL OF THE OKLAHOMA AND TEXAS PANHANDLES SHOULD REMAIN ALERT AND BE READY FOR POSSIBLE ACTIVATION SUNDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING. ANDRADE
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
- Excessive Heat in Pennsylvania, June 7 to 10, 2008
- Flash Flooding and Damaging Winds in Michigan, June 7 to 8, 2008
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Iowa, June 7 to 11, 2008
- Excessive Heat in New Jersey, June 7 to 10, 2008
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Wisconsin, June 7 to 8, 2008
- Tornadoes in Illinois, June 7, 2008
- Flash Flooding and Flooding in Iowa, June 7 to 12, 2008
- Flash Flooding and Flooding in Wisconsin, June 7 to 17, 2008
- Flash Flooding and Flooding in Minnesota, June 7 to 10, 2008
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Nebraska, June 7 to 8, 2008
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Nebraska, June 7 to 10, 2008
- Tornadoes and Hail in Wisconsin, June 7 to 8, 2008
More
Every storm in Texas in 2008Every state in 2008This day in weather historyWarnings in Texas, June 2008
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: 107103.