Plenty of fuels, extremely dry and hot weather and breezy south winds produced near critical fire weather conditions in mid August. As a result of these weather conditions, a few wildfires erupted across West Central Texas.
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The episode as NWS SJT wrote it up.
Plenty of fuels, extremely dry and hot weather and breezy south winds produced near critical fire weather conditions in mid August. As a result of these weather conditions, a few wildfires erupted across West Central Texas.
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 San Angelo, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Aug 15, 2:42 PM CST, 18 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 342 PM CDT MON AUG 15 2011 .SHORT TERM... A MUCH QUIETER DAY ACROSS WEST CENTRAL TEXAS TODAY. ISOLATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOPED ACROSS THE BIG COUNTRY THIS AFTERNOON. EXPECT THIS ACTIVITY TO REMAIN ISOLATED AND BEGIN TO DISSIPATE SHORTLY AFTER SUNSET. LOW TEMPERATURES TONIGHT WILL REMAIN ABOVE NORMAL...GENERALLY IN THE MID TO UPPER 70S. HIGH PRESSURE TAKES CONTROL ON TUESDAY...WITH HIGH TEMPERATURES CLIMBING BACK TO NEAR OR ABOVE 100 DEGREES AT MOST LOCATIONS. STAYED CLOSER TO THE WARMER MET MOS GUIDANCE FOR HIGHS. PRECIPITATION CHANCES REMAIN NEAR NILL TOMORROW...WITH PARTLY CLOUDY SKIES PREVAILING. .LONG TERM... CENTER OF THE UPPER LEVEL RIDGE REMAINS OFF TO THE WEST ACROSS NEW MEXICO THROUGH THURSDAY...BEFORE SHIFTING EAST AND CENTERING CLOSER TO WEST CENTRAL TEXAS FOR NEXT WEEKEND. WILL BE INTERESTING TO WATCH TEMPERATURES THIS WEEK...WITH THE RECENT RAINFALL. SUSPECT THAT TEMPERATURES THROUGH MIDWEEK MAY BE MITIGATED AT LEAST A FEW DEGREES BY THE WET GROUND...WITH THE WARMEST AREAS LIKELY ACROSS THE SOUTHEAST AREAS THAT SAW THE LEAST AMOUNT OF RAIN. DRYING WILL TAKE PLACE BY THE END OF THE WEEK...ABOUT THE TIME THAT SOME GREENING UP OF VEGETATION MAY BE TAKING PLACE...IF THERE IS ENOUGH VEGETATION STILL ALIVE TO SHOW SOME GROWTH. WILL STILL REMAIN ABOVE THE COOL MEX GUIDANCE NUMBERS THROUGH THE PERIOD...BUT NOT THE 5 TO 7 DEGREES ABOVE THAT WE HAVE BEEN SEEING ALL SUMMER LONG SO FAR. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... ABILENE 76 100 75 100 74 / 10 0 0 10 10 SAN ANGELO 75 102 74 99 73 / 10 0 10 10 10 JUNCTION 74 100 74 99 72 / 10 0 10 10 10 && .SJT WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NONE. && DANIELS/07
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 329 PM CDT MON AUG 15 2011 TXZ049-054-064>066-071>073-076>078-098-099-113-114-127-128-139- 140-154-155-168>170-162030- FISHER-NOLAN-STERLING-COKE-RUNNELS-IRION-TOM GREEN-CONCHO- CROCKETT-SCHLEICHER-SUTTON-HASKELL-THROCKMORTON-JONES-SHACKELFORD- TAYLOR-CALLAHAN-COLEMAN-BROWN-MCCULLOCH-SAN SABA-MENARD-KIMBLE- MASON- 329 PM CDT MON AUG 15 2011 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF WEST CENTRAL TEXAS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED. DANIELS
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
3 wildfire. Local standard time, as filed.
The M and M Fire in Southwestern Nolan County near Maryneal burned about 652 acres.
The Allison 412 Fire burned about 836 acres north of Interstate 10 in Sutton County approximately 16 miles east of Sonora. A tire blowout caused the fire.
The Blockhouse Wildfire was started by a bulldozer. This fire burned approximately 386 acres about 7 miles east northeast of Hext.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Texas in 2011Every state in 2011This day in weather historyWarnings in Texas, August 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: 341929, 341930, 341931.