The Pheasant Hunters 2 Wildfire began around 1313 CST about nine miles west of Hereford Texas in Deaf Smith county. The wildfire was reported to be under control around 1820 CST and was located near County Road 6 and County Road L.
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The Pheasant Hunters 2 Wildfire began around 1313 CST about nine miles west of Hereford Texas in Deaf Smith county. The wildfire was reported to be under control around 1820 CST and was located near County Road 6 and County Road L. The wildfire consumed an estimated four hundred and fifty acres, and no structures were threatened or damaged. However, a 2003 Ford Expedition command vehicle including equipment were destroyed in the wildfire, and there was also one reported injury.
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 Jan 2, 11:40 AM CST, 1 hour 33 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 1140 AM CST SUN JAN 2 2011 .AVIATION... VFR CONDITIONS PREVAIL THROUGH THE PERIOD. LOW PRESSURE WILL MAINTAIN SOUTHWEST WINDS WITH GUSTS MAINLY AFFECTING KAMA THROUGH EVENING. HIGH CLOUDS WILL INCREASE OVERNIGHT. A WEAK FRONTAL BOUNDARY IS EXPECTED TO DRIFT INTO THE PANHANDLES AND SHIFT WINDS TO THE NORTHWEST AT KGUY AND DHT AROUND 06Z...REACHING KAMA NEAR SUNRISE. WIND SPEEDS SHOULD NOT BE AN ISSUE. WYNNE && .PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 621 AM CST SUN JAN 2 2011/ UPDATE... UPDATED FOR THE 12Z AVIATION DISCUSSION. AVIATION.../12Z TAFS/ VFR CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED THROUGH THE NEXT 24 HOURS. SOUTHWEST WINDS WILL INCREASE 10-15 KTS BY 18Z AND TURN FROM THE NORTH AFTER 05Z MAINLY AT KDHT AND KGUY. KNS DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 435 AM CST SUN JAN 2 2011/ MAIN FORECAST CONCERNS LIE WITH TEMPERATURES AND WHETHER ANY PRECIPITATION WILL MAKE IT INTO THE AREA NEXT WEEKEND. IT/S BEEN ANOTHER COLD NIGHT ACROSS THE PANHANDLES THANKS TO THE LINGERING MODIFIED ARCTIC AIRMASS AND GOOD RADIATIONAL COOLING WITH LIGHT WINDS...CLEAR SKIES...AND A DRY AIRMASS IN PLACE. SURFACE ANALYSIS AT 09Z SHOWED THE PANHANDLES SANDWICHED BETWEEN HIGH PRESSURE CENTERED OVER EASTERN OK/NORTHEAST TX AND A VERY WEAK LEE TROUGH OVER EASTERN NM INTO SOUTHEAST CO. LIGHT SOUTHERLY WINDS AROUND THE SURFACE HIGH HAVE KEPT TEMPS UP IN THE TEENS TO NEAR 20F OVER THE EASTERN CWA...WHILE LOCATIONS OVER WESTERN AND CENTRAL AREAS HAVE FALLEN INTO THE UPPER SINGLE DIGITS TO LOWER TEENS DUE TO WEAKER WINDS. WIND CHILLS HAVE DIPPED BELOW ZERO AT TIMES IN A FEW SPOTS...BUT THE GENERAL DISCONNECT BETWEEN COLDER TEMPS IN THE WEST AND SLIGHTLY STRONGER WINDS IN THE EAST HAS KEPT WIND CHILLS ABOVE -5F. ZOOMING OUT TO THE BIGGER PICTURE...MORNING WATER VAPOR IMAGERY SHOWED SPLIT UPPER FLOW OVER THE WESTERN HALF OF THE CONUS...PHASING TOGETHER OVER THE EAST AROUND A BROAD UPPER TROUGH. AN EMBEDDED CLOSED LOW WAS CHURNING NORTHEAST TOWARD HUDSON BAY...WHILE OUT WEST A CLOSED LOW IN THE SOUTHERN STREAM WAS SPINNING OFF THE CA COAST. TEMPERATURES WILL BEGIN TO REBOUND TODAY. THE SURFACE HIGH WILL CONTINUE TO SLIDE EAST INTO THE LOWER MS VALLEY...WHILE THE LEE TROUGH DEEPENS IN RESPONSE TO INCREASING WESTERLY FLOW ALOFT. THIS WILL BRING A RETURN OF SOUTH/SOUTHWEST WINDS...WITH ATTENDANT WAA BOOSTING TEMPS INTO THE 40S FOR HIGHS. SUNNY SKIES ARE EXPECTED TO PREVAIL THROUGH THE DAY...BUT WILL SEE HIGH CLOUDS BEGIN TO INCREASE OVERNIGHT WITHIN THE WESTERLY UPPER FLOW. A MORE MILD AIRMASS AND THE INCREASING CIRRUS WILL KEEP OVERNIGHT LOWS A LITTLE WARMER TONIGHT BUT STILL BELOW AVERAGE. A NORTHERN STREAM MID/UPPER LEVEL SHORTWAVE SLIDING SOUTHEAST THROUGH THE NORTHERN PLAINS/UPPER MIDWEST ON MONDAY WILL BACK A COLD FRONT INTO THE NORTHERN AND CENTRAL CWA DURING THE DAY...AND THEN SOUTH THROUGH THE SOUTHERN CWA MONDAY EVENING. THIS WILL SET UP A DECENT NORTHEAST TO SOUTHWEST GRADIENT IN HIGHS ON MONDAY. SURFACE HIGH PRESSURE WILL SLIDE IN BEHIND THE FRONT MONDAY NIGHT...BUT QUICKLY SLIDE EAST ON TUESDAY WHILE THE LEE TROUGH REDEVELOPS UNDER THE WESTERLY SOUTHERN STREAM UPPER JET. SIMILAR TO TODAY...THIS PATTERN WILL BRING WARMING TEMPS ABOARD SOUTH/SOUTHWEST WINDS. MID-LEVEL SHORTWAVE ENERGY EJECTING FROM THE LOW CURRENTLY OFF THE CA COAST WILL SLIDE ACROSS THE AREA TUESDAY NIGHT INTO EARLY WEDNESDAY...PUSHING A WEAK COLD FRONT IN. THIS FRONT WILL BASICALLY JUST STALL ANY ADDITIONAL WARMUP...KEEPING TEMPS ON WEDNESDAY SIMILAR TO THOSE EXPECTED TUESDAY FOR MOST AREAS. THE LOCAL FLOW ALOFT TURNS MORE NORTHWESTERLY ON THURSDAY AS THE EASTERN TROUGH DEEPENS WHILE THE RIDGE AMPLIFIES OVER THE WESTERN CONUS. LATEST MODEL RUNS KEEP THE COLD AIR SPILLING SOUTH FROM THE HUDSON BAY REGION BOTTLED UP WELL NORTHEAST OF THE PANHANDLES THURSDAY AND FRIDAY...WITH TEMPS TO REMAIN MILD THURSDAY AND FRIDAY AHEAD OF SOUTHERN STREAM LOW LIFTING EAST FROM OFF THE SOUTHERN CA COAST. A COLD FRONT THEN BACKS IN FROM THE NORTHEAST FRIDAY NIGHT...BUT HOW FAR AND HOW QUICKLY SOUTHWEST THE COLD AIR PENETRATES WILL DEPEND LARGELY ON THE TRACK AND TIMING OF THE SOUTHERN STREAM LOW WHICH REMAINS QUITE UNCERTAIN ATTM. FOR NOW WILL PAINT A DECENT NORTHEAST/SOUTHWEST TEMP GRADIENT ON SATURDAY...BASICALLY A BLEND BETWEEN THE COLDER ECMWF AND WARMER GFS SOLUTION. SPEAKING OF THE SOUTHERN STREAM LOW...THE 01/12Z ECMWF FEATURED A TRACK THAT KEPT MOST IF NOT ALL OF THE PRECIP JUST SOUTH OF THE CWA SATURDAY/SATURDAY NIGHT. THE LATEST 02/00Z RUN IS MUCH MORE PROGRESSIVE WITH THE LOW...SWINGING IT THROUGH NOW FRIDAY NIGHT/EARLY SATURDAY...AND ISN/T TAPPING ENOUGH DEEP MOISTURE TO GENERATE PRECIP UNTIL IT/S EAST OF THE CWA GIVEN THE QUICKER SOLUTION. THE GFS ON THE OTHER HAND REMAINS MUCH SLOWER AND WOULD BRING SOME PRECIP TO EASTERN PORTIONS OF THE CWA SATURDAY AFTERNOON INTO SATURDAY NIGHT. NOT SURPRISINGLY CONSIDERING THE CUTOFF NATURE OF THE LOW...GFS ENSEMBLES SHOW MUCH VARIATION IN THE TIMING/TRACK OF THE LOW AT THIS POINT. CONSIDERING THE POOR DISAGREEMENT IN SOLUTIONS AT THIS TIME AND THAT THE FORECAST AREA LOOKS TO BE ON THE WEST/NORTHWEST EDGE OF THE PRECIP THREAT AT LEAST THROUGH SATURDAY AT THIS POINT...DECIDED TO KEEP POPS SILENT BUT WILL NEED TO KEEP A CLOSE EYE ON THIS TIMEFRAME. ALTHOUGH BEYOND THE RANGE OF THIS FORECAST...MODELS CONTINUE TO SUGGEST THE POSSIBILITY OF ANOTHER DUMP OF ARCTIC AIR INTO THE PANHANDLES EARLY THE FOLLOWING WEEK AROUND THE JAN 10 TIMEFRAME. KB FIRE WEATHER... MINIMUM RELATIVE HUMIDITIES WILL FALL INTO THE 10 TO 20 PERCENT RANGE TODAY. FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS MAY APPROACH ELEVATED LEVELS OVER THE SOUTHWEST TEXAS PANHANDLE FOR A TIME THIS AFTERNOON AS WINDS REACH SPEEDS NEAR 15 MPH...BUT WILL HOLD OFF ON ISSUING A FIRE DANGER STATEMENT DUE TO THE MARGINAL WIND SPEEDS. RELATIVE HUMIDITIES WILL FALL TO 15 TO 25 PERCENT OVER THE SOUTHERN TEXAS PANHANDLE ON MONDAY...BUT WINDS WILL REMAIN LESS THAN 15 MPH. RELATIVE HUMIDITIES ARE THEN EXPECTED TO REMAIN AROUND 20 PERCENT OR ABOVE TUESDAY THROUGH FRIDAY WHILE WINDS REMAIN BELOW 20 MPH. KB && .AMA WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... TX...NONE. OK...NONE. && 21/11
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 634 AM CST SUN JAN 2 2011 OKZ001>003-TXZ001>020-031245- CIMARRON-TEXAS-BEAVER-DALLAM-SHERMAN-HANSFORD-OCHILTREE-LIPSCOMB- HARTLEY-MOORE-HUTCHINSON-ROBERTS-HEMPHILL-OLDHAM-POTTER-CARSON- GRAY-WHEELER-DEAF SMITH-RANDALL-ARMSTRONG-DONLEY-COLLINGSWORTH- 634 AM CST SUN JAN 2 2011 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE TEXAS AND OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES. .DAY ONE... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME. KNS
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