Wildfire, Hutchinson
- When
- March 9, 3:42 PM CST to March 10, 3:00 PM CST
- Where
- Hutchinson forecast zone
- Reported by
- Fire Department/Rescue
- Coordinates
- 35.840, -101.355 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Wildfire in Texas, March 9 to 10, 2009
The Lazy J Wildfire began around 1542 CST approximately eleven miles east southeast of Stinnett near the Canadian River north of Farm to Market Road 280 in southeast Hutchinson County. however no structures were threatened or damaged.
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.
The Lazy J Wildfire began around 1542 CST approximately eleven miles east southeast of Stinnett near the Canadian River north of Farm to Market Road 280 in southeast Hutchinson County. The wildfire burned an estimated eighteen hundred acres...however no structures were threatened or damaged. There were no injuries reported. The wildfire was caused by transmission lines and was contained as of 1500 CST on 3/10/09. A total of six fire departments responded to the wildfire.
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 9, 2:12 PM CST, 1 hour 30 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 9, 2:12 PM CST, 1 hour 30 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
312 PM CDT MON MAR 9 2009
.DISCUSSION...
LEE-SIDE SURFACE TROUGH WILL CONTINUE TO STRENGTHEN ACROSS EASTERN
NEW MEXICO THROUGH TUESDAY AS A STRONG SHORT WAVE TROUGH CROSSES THE
CENTRAL ROCKIES. BETTER LOW LEVEL MOISTURE IS LURKING JUST TO THE
EAST OF THE TEXAS PANHANDLE THIS AFTERNOON. BELIEVE SOME OF THIS
MOISTURE MAY SNEAK BACK INTO THE EASTERN PARTS OF THE TEXAS PANHANDLE
TONIGHT AS WINDS BACK SOME. THIS MOISTURE COMBINED WITH SOME ADDED
LIFT FROM THE RIGHT ENTRANCE REGION OF THE UPPER LEVEL JET MAY BE
JUST ENOUGH TO SET OFF A FEW SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS IN THE EASTERN
TEXAS PANHANDLE. THEREFORE...HAVE ADDED SOME SLIGHT CHANCE POPS TO
THESE AREAS TONIGHT. THE LEADING EDGE OF SOME MUCH COLDER CANADIAN
AIR IS SLOWLY PUSHING SOUTH THROUGH EAST CENTRAL COLORADO AND
NORTHWEST KANSAS NOW. THIS COLD FRONT MAY MAKE IT AS FAR SOUTH AS THE
OKLAHOMA PANHANDLE OR NORTHERN TEXAS PANHANDLE BY EARLY TUESDAY
MORNING. BUT FROM THERE...IT IS UNCLEAR IF THE FRONT WILL STALL
DURING THE DAY OR MOVE BACK NORTH A LITTLE. RIGHT NOW WE WILL GO WITH
THE IDEA THAT THE FRONT MAY RETREAT SOME DURING THE DAY TUESDAY. THE
WINDS WILL GET FAIRLY STRONG TO THE SOUTH OF THE FRONT FROM THE
SOUTHWEST AND WEST AS THE UPPER LEVEL GRADIENT TIGHTENS. WINDS BEHIND
THE FRONT WILL BE QUITE A BIT LIGHTER FROM THE NORTHEAST.
COLD AIR RUSHES INTO THE PANHANDLES TUESDAY NIGHT BEHIND THE SHORT
WAVE TROUGH AND THIS AIR MASS IS EXPECTED TO LINGER ACROSS THE
PANHANDLES THROUGH THE END OF THE WEEK AS UPSLOPE FLOW ENSUES. THE
AIRMASS OVER THE PANHANDLES WILL CONTINUE TO SATURATE THROUGH THE
END OF THE WEEK. AN UPPER LEVEL LOW IN THE SOUTHERN STREAM WILL
SLOWLY MOVE THIS WAY FROM THE SOUTHERN ROCKIES BY THURSDAY NIGHT.
THE LIFT FROM THIS UPPER LEVEL LOW COMBINED WITH THE INCREASING
MOISTURE IN THE UPSLOPE FLOW MAY BE ENOUGH TO PRODUCE SOME SHOWERS
AND THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE AREA ON FRIDAY. THEN THE RAIN MAY MIX
WITH SOME SNOW AS ANOTHER SURGE OF COLDER AIR MOVES SOUTH ACROSS
THE AREA FRIDAY NIGHT. THE MODELS DO NOT AGREE ON THE TIMING OF THIS
UPPER LEVEL LOW...SO HAVE CENTERED THE HIGHEST POPS AROUND A
COMPROMISE BETWEEN THE MODELS.
UPPER LOW THEN MOVES AWAY FROM THE PANHANDLES SATURDAY AND
UPPER HEIGHTS BEGIN TO RISE INTO EARLY NEXT WEEK...SO A WARMING TREND
WILL BE THE STORY.
&&
.FIRE WEATHER...
STRONG SOUTHWEST WINDS WILL CONTINUE ACROSS MUCH OF THE AREA FOR
TUESDAY. THEREFORE...WILL CONTINUE WITH THE FIRE WEATHER WATCH. A
COLD FRONT MOVING SOUTHWARD COULD CAUSE SOME WINDSHIFT ISSUES WITH
ANY ONGOING FIRES ACROSS THE OKLAHOMA PANHANDLE OR NORTHERN TEXAS
PANHANDLE ON TUESDAY. THE COLD FRONT THEN SURGES SOUTH ACROSS THE
ENTIRE AREA TUESDAY NIGHT.
&&
.PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS...
AMARILLO TX 49 69 28 47 26 / 0 0 0 5 5
BEAVER OK 44 67 25 47 21 / 5 5 0 0 5
BOISE CITY OK 40 61 22 43 23 / 0 0 0 0 5
BORGER TX 53 67 31 52 27 / 5 0 0 0 5
BOYS RANCH TX 47 72 29 50 27 / 0 0 0 5 5
CANYON TX 48 70 29 48 27 / 0 0 0 5 5
CLARENDON TX 55 72 32 48 30 / 10 0 0 5 10
DALHART TX 41 69 25 47 23 / 0 0 0 0 5
GUYMON OK 44 63 24 48 23 / 5 0 0 0 5
HEREFORD TX 45 70 28 47 27 / 0 0 0 5 5
LIPSCOMB TX 49 70 29 45 27 / 10 5 0 0 10
PAMPA TX 53 66 30 47 28 / 5 0 0 0 5
SHAMROCK TX 57 73 34 49 32 / 10 5 0 5 10
WELLINGTON TX 56 76 35 49 32 / 10 5 0 5 10
&&
.AMA WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
TX...FIRE WEATHER WATCH FROM TUESDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH TUESDAY
EVENING FOR THE FOLLOWING ZONES: ARMSTRONG...CARSON...
DALLAM...DEAF SMITH...DONLEY...GRAY...HANSFORD...HARTLEY...
HUTCHINSON...MOORE...OCHILTREE...OLDHAM...POTTER...
RANDALL...ROBERTS...SHERMAN.
OK...FIRE WEATHER WATCH FROM TUESDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH TUESDAY
EVENING FOR THE FOLLOWING ZONES: CIMARRON...TEXAS.
&&
16/15Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 9, 2:46 PM CST, 56 minutes before
TEXAS/OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 346 PM CDT MON MAR 9 2009 OKZ001>003-TXZ001>020-101100- ARMSTRONG-BEAVER-CARSON-CIMARRON-COLLINGSWORTH-DALLAM-DEAF SMITH- DONLEY-GRAY-HANSFORD-HARTLEY-HEMPHILL-HUTCHINSON-LIPSCOMB-MOORE- OCHILTREE-OLDHAM-POTTER-RANDALL-ROBERTS-SHERMAN-TEXAS-WHEELER- 346 PM CDT MON MAR 9 2009 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE TEXAS AND OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES. .DAY ONE... SOUTHWESTERLY WINDS OF 20 TO 30 MPH WITH HIGHER GUSTS. THEREFORE... BOATERS ARE URGED TO EXERCISE CAUTION ON AREA LAKES TODAY AND TONIGHT. IN ADDITION TO THE WINDS...RELATIVE HUMIDITY VALUES WILL DROP TO NEAR OR BELOW 20 PERCENT...CREATING ELEVATED FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS THROUGH THIS EVENING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... A FIRE WEATHER WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR TUESDAY FOR THE WESTERN AND CENTRAL PARTS OF THE TEXAS AND OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES DUE TO THE COMBINATION OF STRONG WINDS AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITIES. THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE REGION ON FRIDAY AS AN UPPER LEVEL LOW LIFTS ACROSS THE PANHANDLES. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME. SJOHNSON
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
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- Blizzard in Minnesota, March 9 to 11, 2009
- Winter Storm in Minnesota, March 9 to 11, 2009
- Winter Storm and Winter Weather in Colorado, March 9 to 10, 2009
- Blizzard in North Dakota, March 9 to 11, 2009
- High Surf in Hawaii, March 9 to 10, 2009
- Blizzard and Heavy Snow in North Dakota, March 9 to 10, 2009
- Heavy Snow in Utah, March 9 to 10, 2009
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Oklahoma, March 9, 2009
- Winter Storm in Minnesota, March 9 to 11, 2009
- Winter Weather in Vermont, March 9, 2009
More
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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: 155401.