As the Honey Prairie Fire reached its six month anniversary, it continued to creep and smolder burning three to four feet deep into the peat, dropping undermined trees left and right. The Honey Prairie Fire has been burning longer than the fires in 2007 which started on April 19 and were declared out on October 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.
The episode as NWS JAX wrote it up.
As the Honey Prairie Fire reached its six month anniversary, it continued to creep and smolder burning three to four feet deep into the peat, dropping undermined trees left and right. The Honey Prairie Fire has been burning longer than the fires in 2007 which started on April 19 and were declared out on October 1.
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 Jacksonville, FL wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Sep 30, 8:40 PM EST, 3 hours 21 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL
940 PM EDT FRI SEP 30 2011
...COOLER WEATHER TO ARRIVE TONIGHT...
.UPDATE...
VERY SHARPLY DEFINED COLD FRONT HAS BEEN MAKING ITS WAY ACROSS
SOUTHEAST GEORGIA THIS EVENING AND IT NEARING THE FL/GA BORDER AT
THE MOMENT AND WILL SLOWLY PUSH ACROSS NORTHEAST FLORIDA DURING
THE OVERNIGHT HOURS. MUCH DRIER AIR IS FILTERING IN BEHIND THE
FRONT WITH DEWPOINTS DROPPING ABOUT 20 DEGREES AFTER FRONTAL
PASSAGE. THIS WILL LEAD ALLOW FOR MIN TEMPS IN THE 50S OVER INLAND
AREAS AND 60S ALONG THE COAST AND ST JOHNS RIVER BASIN BY MORNING.
A FEW LIGHT SPRINKLES HAVE BEEN NOTED ALONG THE FRONTAL BOUNDARY
ACROSS COASTAL SOUTHEAST GEORGIA...BUT ANY MEASURABLE SHOWER
ACTIVITY WILL LIKELY ONLY RESIDE OVER THE SOUTHEAST GEORGIA
COASTAL WATERS JUST NORTH OF BRUNSWICK. BRIEF GUSTY WINDS OUT OF
THE NORTH IN THE 20-30 MPH RANGE HAVE BEEN NOTED IN SOME METAR
OBSERVATIONS BUT WILL LIKELY NOT BE WIDESPREAD ENOUGH TO WARRANT A
LAKE WIND ADVISORY. SUNNY SKIES AND COOLER NORTH WINDS AROUND 15
MPH ON SATURDAY WILL KEEP MAX TEMPS IN THE 70S TO NEAR 80 ACROSS
MOST OF THE FORECAST AREA.
&&
.AVIATION...COLD FRONT...JUST NW OF SSI...WILL CONTINUE TO
TRACK SE MAKING IT TO JAX...CRG...VQQ BY 03Z AND GNV BY 05Z.
WIND SHIFT TO NW AND BRIEF CIGS AT AROUND 7000FT EXPECTED
WITH THE FRONTAL PASSAGE.
&&
.MARINE...SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY (SCA) CONDS ARE EXPECTED TO BEGIN LATE
TONIGHT AS PRESSURE GRADIENT INCREASES BEHIND THE COLD FRONT.
NORTH WINDS WILL BE AROUND 20 KT.
RIP CURRENTS: A LOW RISK IS EXPECTED.
&&
.PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS...
AMG 51 76 45 75 / 0 0 10 10
SSI 61 74 54 72 / 10 0 10 10
JAX 58 78 51 75 / 10 0 10 10
SGJ 67 81 57 75 / 0 0 10 10
GNV 55 80 49 77 / 0 0 10 10
OCF 57 80 50 77 / 0 0 10 10
&&
.JAX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
FL...FIRE WEATHER WATCH SATURDAY AFTERNOON FOR ALACHUA-BAKER-BRADFORD-
CLAY-COLUMBIA-DUVAL-FLAGLER-GILCHRIST-HAMILTON-MARION-
NASSAU-PUTNAM-ST JOHNS-SUWANNEE-UNION.
GA...NONE.
AM...SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY FROM MIDNIGHT TONIGHT TO NOON EDT SATURDAY
FOR ALTAMAHA SOUND GA TO FERNANDINA BEACH FL 20 NM TO 60 NM
OFFSHORE-FERNANDINA BEACH TO ST AUGUSTINE FL 20 NM TO 60 NM
OFFSHORE-ST AUGUSTINE TO FLAGLER BEACH FL 20 NM TO 60 NM
OFFSHORE.
SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY FOR WINDS FROM MIDNIGHT TONIGHT TO 8 AM EDT
SATURDAY FOR ALTAMAHA SOUND GA TO FERNANDINA BEACH FL OUT
20 NM-FERNANDINA BEACH TO ST AUGUSTINE FL OUT 20 NM-ST
AUGUSTINE TO FLAGLER BEACH FL OUT 20 NM.
&&
HESS/PETERSON/LETROHAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL 930 PM EDT FRI SEP 30 2011 FLZ020>025-030>033-035>038-040-GAZ132>136-149>154-162>166-011000- HAMILTON-SUWANNEE-COLUMBIA-BAKER-NASSAU-DUVAL-UNION-BRADFORD-CLAY- ST JOHNS-GILCHRIST-ALACHUA-PUTNAM-FLAGLER-MARION-COFFEE- JEFF DAVIS-BACON-APPLING-WAYNE-ATKINSON-WARE-PIERCE-BRANTLEY- INLAND GLYNN-COASTAL GLYNN-ECHOLS-CLINCH-CHARLTON-INLAND CAMDEN- COASTAL CAMDEN- 930 PM EDT FRI SEP 30 2011 THIS OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST FLORIDA AND SOUTHEAST GEORGIA. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AS A DRY COLD FRONT PUSHES SOUTH THROUGH THE FORECAST AREA. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY... LOW HUMIDITY WILL ELEVATE THE FIRE DANGER FOR SATURDAY THROUGH TUESDAY OVER INLAND AREAS. THE RIP CURRENT RISK WILL REMAIN ELEVATED ALONG THE EAST COAST SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT REQUESTED AT THIS TIME. FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION...VISIT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSONVILLE WEBSITE ON THE INTERNET AT WEATHER.GOV/JAX. MZ/JCH
1 wildfire. Local standard time, as filed.
The latest fire location map issued on Oct. 19th revealed that the 309,199 acre fire has only grown 121 acres in the past month. The lightning ignited Honey Prairie Fire has been burning since April 28 and as of October 17, 2011 has burned 483 square miles.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Georgia in 2011Every state in 2011This day in weather historyWarnings in Georgia, October 2011
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: 347590.