Wildfire, Hutchinson
- When
- January 8, 3:47 PM CST to 10:00 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, January 8, 2011
The Conoco Wildfire started around 1547 CST about six miles north northeast of Borger Texas in Hutchinson county. The wildfire was located just east of Plemmons Road and just southeast of the County Road V split and was contained by 2200 CST.
Where it happened
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- Wind
- Hail
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- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
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- Other
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 Conoco Wildfire started around 1547 CST about six miles north northeast of Borger Texas in Hutchinson county. The wildfire was located just east of Plemmons Road and just southeast of the County Road V split and was contained by 2200 CST. The wildfire consumed three hundred and fifty-six acres. Although two homes and two other structures were threatened, there was no report of damages or injuries.
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 Jan 8, 11:41 AM CST, 4 hours 6 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 8, 11:41 AM CST, 4 hours 6 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 1141 AM CST SAT JAN 8 2011 .AVIATION... FOR THE 18Z TAFS...VFR CONDITIONS CAN BE EXPECTED AT ALL TAF SITES THROUGH AT LEAST 10Z. MID LEVEL CEILINGS 8000-11000 FT AGL MAY BE POSSIBLE 22-08Z AT KAMA ALONG WITH VIRGA. AFTER 10Z...MVFR/IFR CONDITIONS ARE POSSIBLE AT ANY SITE. ONLY INCLUDED MVFR CONDITIONS AT KGUY AFTER 15Z WHERE CONFIDENCE OF THESE LOWER CONDITIONS ARE HIGHEST. DID NOT INCLUDE AT KAMA AND KDHT THINKING MVFR/IFR CONDITIONS WILL STAY EAST OF THESE SITES...BUT WILL CLOSELY MONITOR...ESPECIALLY AT KAMA. GUSTY SOUTH WINDS WILL SUBSIDE SLIGHTLY AFTER 00Z AT ALL SITES. THERE IS A CHANCE FOR NON CONVECTIVE LOW LEVEL WIND SHEAR AT KAMA AND KGUY 00-12Z AS 850 MB/1500-2000 FT AGL WINDS MAY INCREASE TO AROUND 40 KTS...BUT DID NOT MENTION WITH LOW CONFIDENCE OF OCCURRENCE. MBS && .PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 324 AM CST SAT JAN 8 2011/ DISCUSSION... COOL SURFACE RIDGE WILL SLIDE OFF TO THE EAST OF THE PANHANDLES TODAY WHILE A NORTH TO SOUTH STATIONARY FRONTAL BOUNDARY REMAINS ACROSS EASTERN CO AND EASTERN NM THROUGH SUNDAY. A SOUTHERN STREAM CLOSED UPPER LOW WILL TRACK EAST ACROSS NORTHWEST MEXICO AND SOUTHWESTERN STATES TODAY BEFORE WEAKENING INTO AN OPEN WAVE OVER THE SOUTHERN ROCKIES TONIGHT AND THEN ACROSS WEST TX AND THE PANHANDLES SUNDAY. LITTLE...IF ANY...LOW LEVEL MOISTURE ASSOCIATED WITH THE SYSTEM WILL NEGATE PRECIP CHANCES THROUGH EARLY SUNDAY...HOWEVER LOW LEVEL MOISTURE EXPECTED TO INCREASE SUNDAY INTO SUNDAY NIGHT AS UPSLOPE SURFACE FLOW DEVELOPS AHEAD OF THE ARCTIC FRONT WHICH IS FORECAST TO PUSH SOUTH ACROSS THE FORECAST AREA LATE SUNDAY NIGHT INTO MONDAY MORNING. NORTHERN STREAM SHORTWAVE SHOULD AFFECT THE PANHANDLES BEGINNING LATE SUNDAY INTO MONDAY. BEST LIFT AND BEST CHANCES FOR PRECIP APPEAR TO BE SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY AND WILL BE SNOW. FEEL HIGHEST AMOUNTS IN THE NORTHEAST SECTIONS WITH THE LEAST AMOUNTS IN THE SOUTHWEST SECTIONS OF THE FORECAST AREA...AMOUNTS POSSIBLY UP TO 2 INCHES. COLDEST WIND CHILLS OF 5 TO 15 DEGREES BELOW ZERO AND ALSO WIND SPEEDS OF AROUND 10 KNOTS OR GREATER MONDAY NIGHT INTO TUESDAY MORNING WHICH MAY WARRANT WIND CHILL ADVISORY. WIND CHILLS MAY STILL BE AROUND 5 TO 15 DEGREES BELOW ZERO...HOWEVER WIND SPEEDS EXPECTED TO BE LESS THAN 10 KNOTS. COLD AIR MAY BECOME DISLODGED AROUND THE MIDDLE OR SO OF NEXT WEEK...POSSIBLY THURSDAY...WITH TEMPS CLIMBING TO NEAR OR ABOVE SEASONABLE NORMS BY LATE NEXT WEEK. COLD SURFACE HIGH TO TRACK EAST OF THE PANHANDLES BY THURSDAY OR FRIDAY AS FRONTAL BOUNDARY WEST OF THE FORECAST AREA ACROSS THE SOUTHERN ROCKIES BEGINS TO LIFT EAST AS A WARM FRONT AND PUSHES ACROSS THE PANHANDLES THURSDAY NIGHT OR FRIDAY. WARMER AND DRY FOR THE LATTER HALF OF NEXT WEEK. SCHNEIDER FIRE WEATHER... FIRE WEATHER CONCERNS WILL REMAIN BELOW ELEVATED AND CRITICAL LEVELS THROUGH THE END OF NEXT WEEK AND EARLY NEXT WEEKEND. SCHNEIDER && .AMA WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... TX...NONE. OK...NONE. && 17/08
Hazardous weather outlook, Jan 8, 1:16 PM CST, 2 hours 31 minutes before
TEXAS/OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 116 PM CST SAT JAN 8 2011 OKZ001>003-TXZ001>020-082200- ARMSTRONG-BEAVER-CARSON-CIMARRON-COLLINGSWORTH-DALLAM-DEAF SMITH- DONLEY-GRAY-HANSFORD-HARTLEY-HEMPHILL-HUTCHINSON-LIPSCOMB-MOORE- OCHILTREE-OLDHAM-POTTER-RANDALL-ROBERTS-SHERMAN-TEXAS-WHEELER- 116 PM CST SAT JAN 8 2011 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE TEXAS AND OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES. .DAY ONE... CAUTION IS ADVISED ON AREA LAKES FOR THE REST OF THIS AFTERNOON WITH SOUTH TO SOUTHWEST WINDS 20 TO 30 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... THE NEXT WINTER SYSTEM IS EXPECTED TO IMPACT THE PANHANDLES SUNDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY...BRINGING POSSIBLE SNOW TO THE REGION SUNDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH MONDAY AFTERNOON AND DANGEROUSLY COLD WEATHER MONDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. SNOW ACCUMULATIONS ARE EXPECTED TO BE LESS THAN ONE INCH ACROSS MOST OF THE PANHANDLES...HOWEVER SNOW TOTALS BETWEEN 2 AND 4 INCHES WILL BE POSSIBLE IN THE EASTERN OKLAHOMA AND NORTHEASTERN TEXAS PANHANDLES. WINDY CONDITIONS ON MONDAY COULD ALSO LEAD TO BLOWING AND DRIFTING SNOW. WIND CHILL VALUES ARE EXPECTED TO DROP BELOW ZERO AT TIMES MONDAY MORNING THROUGH WEDNESDAY MORNING. WIND CHILL VALUES WILL BE THE LOWEST TUESDAY MORNING AND WEDNESDAY MORNING...AND A WIND CHILL ADVISORY MAY BE NECESSARY DURING THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME. MBS
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
- Winter Weather in Maryland, January 8, 2011
- Cold in Nevada, January 8, 2011
- Winter Storm and Winter Weather in Nebraska, January 8 to 10, 2011
- Heavy Snow and Winter Weather in New Jersey, January 8, 2011
- Winter Storm and Winter Weather in Colorado, January 8 to 10, 2011
- Winter Weather in Pennsylvania, January 8 to 9, 2011
- High Surf in Hawaii, January 8 to 9, 2011
- Heavy Snow in Nebraska, January 8 to 10, 2011
- Winter Storm and Winter Weather in Kansas, January 8 to 10, 2011
- Heavy Snow and Winter Weather in Delaware, January 8, 2011
- Extreme Cold in West Virginia, January 8 to 9, 2011
- Winter Storm in Wyoming, January 8 to 9, 2011
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: 278328.