The Salt Lake Wildfire burned between 50 and 100 acres in Aransas County, just west of Rockport. 40 homes were threatened and saved, and numerous residents had to be evacuated.
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The Salt Lake Wildfire burned between 50 and 100 acres in Aransas County, just west of Rockport. 40 homes were threatened and saved, and numerous residents had to be evacuated. Several local, state, and private resources responded. One firefighter was injured. The exact beginning time was not known.
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 Jan 21, 2:45 PM CST, 15 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 245 PM CST WED JAN 21 2009 .SHORT TERM (TONIGHT THROUGH THURSDAY NIGHT)...SFC HIGH WILL CONT TO MOVE FARTHER E OF S TX TONIGHT ALLOWING A WEAK SLY FLOW TO PREVAIL AND GRADUALLY USHER IN HIGHER DEWPOINTS. HOWEVER...AM EXPECTING TEMP/DEWPOINT SPREAD TO REMAIN LARGE ENOUGH TO PRECLUDE FOG DVLPMNT. THE MID/UPPER LEVEL RIDGE WILL BEGIN TO FLATTEN THROUGH THU AS A LOW APPROACHES THE BAJA. SFC LOW PRESSURE DVLPS/DEEPENS ALONG THE ROCKIES AND INTO THE TX PANHANDLE THRU THU IN RESPONSE TO THE APPROACHING UPPER LEVEL SYSTEM...WHICH IN TURN STRENGTHENS THE SLY FLOW ACROSS S TX. THIS WILL LEAD TO A WARMING TREND AND GRADUALLY INCREASING LOW LEVEL MOISTURE. THU WILL BE A WARM DAY WITH A FEW CLOUDS AND MX TEMPS IN THE UPPER 70S TO LOWER 80S. BY THU NIGHT THERE SHOULD BE SUFFICIENT LOW LEVEL MOISTURE FOR LIGHT PATCHY SHALLOW FOG BUT NOT SIGNIFICANT ENOUGH TO MENTION IN FCST. AM EXPECTING MORE CLOUDS INSTEAD DUE TO A WEAK TO MOD SLY FLOW. && .MARINE (TONIGHT THROUGH THURSDAY NIGHT)...LIGHT WINDS WILL BECOME MORE SOUTH TONIGHT AS THE SFC HIGH MOVES EAST OF THE AREA. ONSHORE FLOW WILL STRENGTHEN THU AND THU NIGHT IN RESPONSE TO DEEPENING LOW PRESSURE ACROSS THE TX PANHANDLE. && .AVIATION (TONIGHT THROUGH THURSDAY NIGHT)...VFR CONDITIONS WILL PREVAIL THROUGH THU. && .FIRE WEATHER (TONIGHT THROUGH THURSDAY NIGHT)...ALTHOUGH RH VALUES WILL GRADUALLY INCREASE...FIRE DANGER IS EXPECTED TO REMAIN ELEVATED ON THU AS DRY CONDITIONS CONTINUE AND WINDS BRIEFLY GUST TO 20 TO 25 MPH IN THE AFTERNOON. HOWEVER CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED TO REMAIN JUST BELOW RED FLAG CRITERIA...THEREFORE A FIRE WEATHER WATCH OR A RED FLAGE WARNING IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME. HOWEVER IF RH VALUES LOWER MORE THAN ANTICIPATED OR WINDS ARE SLIGHTLY STRONGER...THEN RED FLAG CONDITIONS MAY DVLP. && .LONG TERM (FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY)...UNCERTAINTY IS INCREASING ON WHETHER THE FRONTAL BOUNDARY WHICH WAS/IS PROGGED TO MOVE INTO THE CWFA ON SATURDAY MOVES THROUGH...AND IF IT DOES HOW MUCH IMPACT IT WILL HAVE. WEAK DISTURBANCE WHICH GOES BY ON FRIDAY (DRY FORECAST REMAINS AS LOW LEVEL MOISTURE NOT GOOD AND 850MB FIELDS WESTERLY...NOT MUCH CHANGE TO PREVIOUS FORECAST) DOES NOT BRING MUCH OF AN AMPLIFIED RIDGE SATURDAY (I.E. UPPER FETCH WEAK) SO FRONT MAY GET CLOSE OR MOVE THROUGH LATE SATURDAY...BUT RETURN NORTH BY SUNDAY EVENING AS THERMAL TROUGH DEVELOPS IN WEST TEXAS WITH PASSAGE OF SURFACE HIGH EAST. THUS...HAVE RAISED TEMPERATURES SOME FOR SUNDAY AS WELL AS MONDAY. CONCERNING RAIN...IF FRONT IS NOT THERE BY SUNDAY...ISENTROPIC PATTERN NOT THERE AND THUS RAIN WILL NOT BE AN ISSUE. FOR NOW...REMOVED RAIN FROM ALL BUT THE NORTHWESTERN AREAS WHERE GFS IS STILL HOLDING ONTO LIFT AND WHERE MOISTURE WILL BE BEST POSITIONED WITH GOOD 850MB AND MID LEVEL THETA-E ADVECTION. NEXT ISSUE BECOMES WHEN PACIFIC TROUGH EARLY NEXT WEEK MOVES EAST AND PROVIDES ANY CHANCE FOR RAIN AND...WITH PASSAGE...ANOTHER FRONT. ECMWF AND GFS ARE SLOWER NOW...NOT BRINGING THE TROUGH ACROSS UNTIL THURSDAY (AT LEAST ACCORDING TO 12Z RUNS). THUS...NO FRONT ANTICIPATED THROUGH NEXT WEDNESDAY...AND WILL KEEP FORECAST DRY AS UPPER TROUGH REMAINS WEST OF AREA AND MOST OF THE TIME WE ARE UNDER THE NORTHWEST PORTION OF UPPER RIDGE. THUS...GENERALLY EXPECT ABOVE NORMAL TEMPERATURES MONDAY-WEDNESDAY WITH RAIN CHANCES REMAINING DISMAL. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... CORPUS CHRISTI 45 77 60 81 62 / 0 0 10 10 10 VICTORIA 37 78 55 81 56 / 0 0 10 10 10 LAREDO 47 84 61 84 62 / 0 0 10 10 10 ALICE 39 79 58 86 61 / 0 0 10 10 10 ROCKPORT 49 74 61 77 64 / 0 0 10 10 10 COTULLA 37 82 56 82 58 / 0 0 10 10 10 KINGSVILLE 43 79 59 84 62 / 0 0 10 10 10 NAVY CORPUS 53 73 62 77 64 / 0 0 10 10 10 && .CRP WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... TX...NONE. GM...NONE. && TE/81...SHORT TERM GW/86...LONG TERM
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 433 AM CST WED JAN 21 2009 TXZ229>234-239>247-221100- LA SALLE-MCMULLEN-LIVE OAK-BEE-GOLIAD-VICTORIA-WEBB-DUVAL- JIM WELLS-KLEBERG-NUECES-SAN PATRICIO-ARANSAS-REFUGIO-CALHOUN- 433 AM CST WED JAN 21 2009 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH TEXAS AND THE MIDDLE TEXAS COASTAL WATERS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT ELEVATED FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS EXPECTED TODAY WITH VERY LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY VALUES. HOWEVER...WINDS WILL ME MUCH WEAKER TODAY FROM THE SOUTH AND SOUTHWEST. NO OTHER HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED TODAY OR TONIGHT AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY ELEVATED TO NEAR CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED THURSDAY AFTERNOON AS LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY VALUES OCCUR AND GUSTY SOUTHERLY WINDS. NO OTHER HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. GMZ230-235-250-255-270-275-221100- 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- 433 AM CST WED JAN 21 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...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY CONDITIONS MAY OCCUR OVER THE COASTAL WATERS THURSDAY NIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY NIGHT. NO OTHER HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. 76/87
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 wildfire. Local standard time, as filed.
The Salt Lake Wildfire burned between 50 and 100 acres in Aransas County, just west of Rockport. 40 homes were threatened and saved, and numerous residents had to be evacuated. Several local, state, and private resources responded. One firefighter was injured. The exact beginning time was not known.
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