The Bina Wildfire burned 700 acres in rural Kleberg county, on the King Ranch. No structures were reported threatened or damaged.
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The Bina Wildfire burned 700 acres in rural Kleberg county, on the King Ranch. No structures were reported threatened or damaged.
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 Corpus Christi, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Apr 20, 5:25 PM CST, 1 hour 35 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 625 PM CDT MON APR 20 2009 .DISCUSSION...SEE AVIATION SECTION. && .AVIATION...THE SEABREEZE BOUNDARY WAS SLOWLY MOVING INLAND LATE THIS AFTERNOON. WIND SHIFT WILL POSSIBLY BRING IN AREA OF SMOKE ASSOCIATED WITH WILDFIRE OVER KING RANCH TO CORPUS CHRISTI AREA. WILL SHOW TEMPO PERIOD FROM 00Z TO 02Z FOR CORPUS CHRISTI TAF FOR POSSIBILITY OF VSBY REDUCTION IN SMOKE TO MVFR CATEGORY. FOR THE REST OF THE AREA...CLEAR SKIES AND VFR CONDITIONS WILL PREVAIL. && .PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 224 PM CDT MON APR 20 2009/ SHORT TERM (TONIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT)...QUIET WEATHER THROUGH THE SHORT TERM AS STRONG HIGH PRESSURE DRIFTS ACROSS THE STATE. DEWPOINTS AND RELATIVE HUMIDITIES ARE LOW...BUT WINDS ARE AS WELL...PRECLUDING ANY FIRE WEATHER HEADLINES. WINDS GRADUALLY SWING AROUND ONSHORE BY THE END OF THE SHORT TERM...ALLOWING FOR GRADUALLY INCREASING MINS AS DEWPOINTS RISE LITTLE BY LITTLE. LONG TERM (WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY)...THE MODELS ARE ACTUALLY IN VERY GOOD AGREEMENT WITH THE MAIN SYNOPTIC FEATURES THROUGH THE FCST PD. A MID/UPR LVL RDG AXIS ANCHORED TO OUR WEST WL BREAK DOWN THROUGH THU AS A SRN STREAM PACIFIC S/WV MOVES EWD FROM THE SRN CALIFORNIA WATERS INTO NEW MEXICO...WEST TX AND NRN MEXICO. THE SRN PORTION OF THIS S/WV IS EXPECTED TO TRACK ACROSS THE CWA ON FRI. THE MAIN QUESTION IS WHETHER WE WL GET ANY PCPN FROM THIS SYSTEM. THE 00Z GFS...ECMWF AND CANADIAN SOLNS ALL POINTED TO THE POSSIBILITY OF THIS SYSTEM GENERATING ISOLATED PCPN AS IT ENCOUNTERED A MORE FAVORABLE MOISTURE ENVIRONMENT. HOWEVER...THE LATEST GFS SOLN IS FASTER...WEAKER AND MORE NORTH WITH THE TRACK OF THIS S/WV. SO AS A RESULT...THE 12Z GFS IS KEEPING US DRY FOR FRI. FOR CONSISTENCY AND CONSENSUS REASONING...WL MAINTAIN THE CURRENT SLIGHT CHC POPS FOR FRI ACROSS INLAND LOCATIONS. SUFFICIENT RESIDUAL MOISTURE WL LKLY STILL BE IN PLACE TO MAINTAIN ISOLATED POPS FOR SATURDAY AS WELL. THE CONFIDENCE LEVEL IS LOWER FOR SATURDAYS CHANCES THAN FOR FRIDAYS CHANCES. AS THE NEXT POTENT SYSTEM DIGS ACROSS THE INTERMOUNTAIN WEST...BUILDING HEIGHTS ALOFT ARE EXPECTED ON SUN AND MON. THE MAIN FORCING FOR PCPN WL SHIFT WELL TO OUR NORTH DURING THIS TIMEFRAME. AS A RESULT...WL KEEP THINGS DRY FOR NOW. TEMPS WL GENERALLY BE AT OR SLIGHTLY ABV NORMAL THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE FCST PD GIVEN THE PERSISTENT MODERATE SOUTH/SOUTHEAST BOUNDARY FLOW. CLOUDS WL BECOME MORE PREVALENT BY THE END OF THE WEEK AS BOUNDARY LAYER MOISTURE INCREASES ENOUGH TO SUPPORT WIDESPREAD STRATUS AT NIGHT ALONG WITH SCT-BKN CUMULUS DURING THE DAY. A SUFFICIENT PRESSURE AND THERMAL GRADIENT WL EXIST FROM THU ONWARD TO WARRANT BREEZY/WINDY CONDITIONS ALONG WITH MARGINAL SMALL CRAFT ADVY CONDITIONS. AVIATION...VFR THROUGH THE PERIOD...WITH WINDS BECOMING LIGHT AFTER SUNSET AND REMAINING SO UNTIL MIDMORNING TUESDAY. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... CORPUS CHRISTI 53 87 59 87 65 / 0 0 0 0 0 VICTORIA 50 88 57 87 62 / 0 0 0 0 0 LAREDO 62 95 66 97 68 / 0 0 0 0 0 ALICE 53 91 57 93 62 / 0 0 0 0 0 ROCKPORT 57 84 64 83 70 / 0 0 0 0 0 COTULLA 52 94 59 95 63 / 0 0 0 0 0 KINGSVILLE 51 89 58 91 65 / 0 0 0 0 0 NAVY CORPUS 63 81 65 83 70 / 0 0 0 0 0 && .CRP WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... TX...NONE. GM...NONE. && TMT/89...AVIATION
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 438 AM CDT MON APR 20 2009 GMZ230-235-250-255-270-275-TXZ229>234-239>247-211000- BAYS AND WATERWAYS FROM BAFFIN BAY TO PORT ARANSAS- BAYS AND WATERWAYS FROM PORT ARANSAS TO PORT OCONNOR- COASTAL WATERS BAFFIN BAY TO PORT ARANSAS OUT 20 NM- COASTAL WATERS PORT ARANSAS TO MATAGORDA SHIP CHANNEL OUT 20 NM- WATERS BAFFIN BAY TO PORT ARANSAS 20 TO 60 NM- WATERS PORT ARANSAS TO MATAGORDA SHIP CHANNEL 20 TO 60 NM- LA SALLE-MCMULLEN-LIVE OAK-BEE-GOLIAD-VICTORIA-WEBB-DUVAL- JIM WELLS-KLEBERG-NUECES-SAN PATRICIO-ARANSAS-REFUGIO-CALHOUN- 438 AM CDT MON APR 20 2009 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH TEXAS AND THE MIDDLE TEXAS COASTAL WATERS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY ELEVATED WILD FIRE DANGER IS ANTICIPATED FOR INLAND AREAS AND ESPECIALLY THE BRUSH COUNTRY AND RIO GRANDE PLAINS WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY. SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY CONDITIONS WILL BE POSSIBLE AT TIMES FOR PORTIONS OF THE BAYS AND GULF WATERS FROM WEDNESDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. TM/MJG
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 wildfire. Local standard time, as filed.
The Bina Wildfire burned 700 acres in rural Kleberg county, on the King Ranch. No structures were reported threatened or damaged.
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