Dry conditions combined with winds gusting to 30mph and low relative humidity to allow a wild fire near Galena, Kansas to burn out of control for several hours. The fire burned around 100 acres of off Schermerhorn Road and destroyed a couple of mobile homes.
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Dry conditions combined with winds gusting to 30mph and low relative humidity to allow a wild fire near Galena, Kansas to burn out of control for several hours. The fire burned around 100 acres of off Schermerhorn Road and destroyed a couple of mobile homes. One resident was injured and taken to the hospital for smoke inhalation.
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 Springfield, MO wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Nov 9, 10:55 AM CST, 5 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 1055 AM CST TUE NOV 9 2010 ...UPDATE TO AVIATION... .DISCUSSION... MAIN FOCUS TODAY WILL AGAIN BE WITH FIRE WEATHER CONCERNS THEN SHIFTING TO PRECIPITATION CHANCES FOR THE LATTER PORTION OF THE WEEK. STILL FAIRLY DRY ACROSS THE CWA TONIGHT...HOWEVER SURFACE DEWPOINTS HAVE JUMPED SOME 10 TO 13 DEGREES FROM 24 HOURS AGO ACROSS THE FORECAST AREA. SURFACE WINDS HAVE REMAINED UP OVER THE WESTERN CWA AND WAS KEEPING A WIDE TEMPERATURE DIFFERENCE FROM AROUND 50 IN THE EAST TO THE UPPER 50S IN PORTIONS OF SOUTHWEST MISSOURI. WATER VAPOR SHOWS DEEPENING TROUGH ACROSS THE ROCKIES WITH UPPER LEVEL RIDGE OVER THE CENTRAL U.S. UPPER TROUGH IS EXPECTED TO APPROACH THE AREA FROM THE WEST TODAY WITH MOISTURE INCREASING FROM THE SOUTH AS WE WILL HAVE A MORE DIRECT FETCH OFF OF THE GULF INTO THE AREA. THE INCREASED MOISTURE WILL HELP TO LESSEN THE FIRE WEATHER RISK TODAY...ALTHOUGH WINDS WILL REMAIN GUSTY AT 20 TO 30 KTS AND FUEL MOISTURE VALUES WILL REMAIN VERY LOW. CRITERIA FOR RED FLAG WARNING WILL LIKELY NOT BE MET BUT THERE WILL STILL BE AN ELEVATED RISK OF FIRE WEATHER HAZARDOUS CONDITIONS AND WILL LIKELY ISSUE A SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT THIS MORNING. MOISTURE WILL CONTINUE TO INCREASE TONIGHT AS UPPER TROUGH BEGINS TO LIFT NORTHEAST THROUGH KANSAS INTO NORTHWEST MISSOURI. BEST DYNAMICAL FORCING WILL REMAIN NORTHWEST OF THE AREA AND DONT SEE ANY WIDESPREAD POPS WITH THIS INITIAL SHORTWAVE. BY WEDNESDAY NIGHT...SURFACE FRONT WILL BEGIN TO EDGE INTO THE SOUTHWEST CORNER OF THE CWA INTO CENTRAL MO AND WILL HAVE A SLIGHT CHANCE OF SHOWERS AS THIS BOUNDARY STALLS OUT OVER THE REGION. THE SECOND SHORTWAVE WILL EVENTUALLY SHIFT EAST AND HELP TO DRIVE THE FRONT THROUGH THE AREA AS WELL FRIDAY INTO FRIDAY NIGHT WHEN THE BEST CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDER WILL EXIST. NOT TO KEEN ON THUNDER CHANCES AT THIS POINT WITH LITTLE TO NO INSTABILITY EXPECTED. DRIER AND COOLER CONDITIONS WILL THEN MOVE IN BEHIND THE FRONT ON SATURDAY AND SHOULD CLEAR THE CLOUDS AND PRECIPITATION FROM WEST TO EAST. LINDENBERG && .AVIATION... FOR THE 18Z TAFS... GUSTY SOUTH WINDS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH SUNDOWN TONIGHT AT ALL THREE TERMINALS. LLWS WILL THEN DEVELOP AS SURFACE GUSTS SUBSIDE...AND WILL CONTINUE THROUGH WEDNESDAY MORNING. SURFACE GUSTS WILL RESUME ON WEDNESDAY...WITH HIGH CLOUDS BEGINNING TO STREAM INTO THE AREA. BOXELL && .SGF WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... MO...NONE. KS...NONE. &&
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 406 AM CST TUE NOV 9 2010 KSZ073-097-101-MOZ055>058-066>071-077>083-088>098-101>106-101015- BOURBON-CRAWFORD-CHEROKEE-BENTON-MORGAN-MILLER-MARIES-VERNON- ST. CLAIR-HICKORY-CAMDEN-PULASKI-PHELPS-BARTON-CEDAR-POLK-DALLAS- LACLEDE-TEXAS-DENT-JASPER-DADE-GREENE-WEBSTER-WRIGHT-NEWTON- LAWRENCE-CHRISTIAN-DOUGLAS-HOWELL-SHANNON-MCDONALD-BARRY-STONE- TANEY-OZARK-OREGON- 406 AM CST TUE NOV 9 2010 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF THE MISSOURI OZARKS AND EXTREME SOUTHEAST KANSAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. THE HAZARDOUS WEATHER LEVEL IS...ELEVATED. WEATHER HAZARDS EXPECTED... AN ELEVATED FIRE WEATHER RISK. A LIMITED NON THUNDERSTORM WIND RISK. DISCUSSION... WINDS WILL BECOME GUSTY AGAIN TODAY IN ADVANCE OF A STORM SYSTEM TAKING SHAPE TO THE WEST OF THE REGION. WIND GUSTS MAY APPROACH 30 MPH IN PARTS OF SOUTHEAST KANSAS INTO FAR WESTERN MISSOURI LATE THIS MORNING AND AFTERNOON. THE WINDS WILL COMBINE WITH LOW SHORT TERM FUEL MOISTURE AND DRY CONDITIONS TO PRODUCE AN ELEVATED FIRE WEATHER RISK ACROSS THE REGION TODAY. WHILE MOISTURE WILL BE INCREASING THROUGHOUT THE DAY...AFTERNOON HUMIDITY VALUES WILL DROP TO AROUND 30 PERCENT OVER THE EASTERN MISSOURI OZARKS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY. ISOLATED TO WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE ACROSS THE AREA WEDNESDAY NIGHT INTO SATURDAY MORNING ACROSS MOST OF THE AREA. DUE TO A LACK OF INSTABILITY...SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED THROUGH TONIGHT. && THIS PRODUCT IS NOW AVAILABLE IN GRAPHICAL FORMAT...ALONG WITH OTHER WEATHER...HYDROLOGICAL AND CLIMATE INFORMATION...AT HTTP://WWW.CRH.NOAA.GOV/SGF(ALL LOWERCASE) LINDENBERG
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 wildfire. Local standard time, as filed.
A 100 acre wildfire destroyed several mobile homes and injured one resident.
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