Persistent hot, dry, and windy weather continued to result in critical fire weather conditions throughout the month of June that featured numerous intense, deep burning fires resulting in significant downwind spotting that lasted for days and weeks.
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The episode as NWS SJT wrote it up.
Persistent hot, dry, and windy weather continued to result in critical fire weather conditions throughout the month of June that featured numerous intense, deep burning fires resulting in significant downwind spotting that lasted for days and weeks.
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 Jun 3, 5:41 PM CST, 2 hours 4 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 641 PM CDT FRI JUN 3 2011 .DISCUSSION... /SEE BELOW FOR AVIATION FORECAST/ && .AVIATION... A FEW PATCHES OF STRATUS MAY AFFECT SOUTHERN TERMINALS AROUND SUNRISE. THERE SLIGHT POTENTIAL FOR MVFR CIGS...BUT SHOULD BE BRIEF IF THEY OCCUR. OTHERWISE MAIN AVIATION CONCERN WILL CONTINUE TO BE WIND GUSTS OF 25-35 KTS AT KSJT AND KABI THROUGH 2Z. && .PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 327 PM CDT FRI JUN 3 2011/ SHORT TERM... SUBTROPICAL RIDGE CENTERED OVER THE ARKLATEX AREA WILL CONTINUE TO BE THE DOMINANT WEATHER FEATURE FOR WEST CENTRAL TEXAS WEATHER THROUGH SATURDAY. ANOTHER HOT AFTERNOON ACROSS THE AREA...WITH TEMPERATURES IN THE MID TO UPPER 90S. SOUTH WINDS CONTINUE WITH SPEEDS OF 15 TO 25 MPH...WITH GUSTS TO 35 MPH. WINDS WILL DECREASE BY EARLY THIS EVENING. OTHERWISE NOT MUCH CHANGE FOR THE NEXT 24 HOURS...AS UPPER LEVEL RIDGE REMAINS IN PLACE. LOWS TONIGHT WILL BE IN THE MID TO UPPER 60S...WITH HIGHS SATURDAY IN THE MID TO UPPER 90S. 21 LONG TERM... THE SUB TROPICAL RIDGE WILL DOMINATE THE WEATHER PATTERN THROUGH MUCH OF THE EXTENDED PERIOD RESULTING IN ABOVE NORMAL TEMPERATURES AND LITTLE TO NO CHANCE OF PRECIPITATION. THE WEAK WAVE IN THE WESTERN GULF SHOULD BRING SOME MUCH NEEDED PRECIP TO SOUTH TEXAS OVER THE NEXT DAY OR TWO BUT THE POSITION OF THE RIDGE SHOULD KEEP THIS FEATURE FROM HAVING AN IMPACT IN OUR CWA. TO OUR WEST... THE LARGE UPPER LOW OVER THE CA COAST WILL RIDE OVER THE RIDGE INTO THE NORTHERN PLAINS. OUR ONLY IMPACT FROM THIS WILL BE INCREASING SOUTHERLY FLOW EARLY NEXT WEEK VIA LEE TROFFING. BOTH THE ECMWF/GFS DEPICT DEEP EAST TO SOUTHEAST FLOW THROUGH H5 THROUGH EARLY NEXT WEEK WITH THE H5 HEIGHTS SLOWLY DECREASING TO AROUND 588DM. THEY ALSO MAINTAIN PERSISTENT CYCLONIC FLOW OVER THE GULF WHICH SHOULD PROVIDE A DECENT SOURCE OF LOW LEVEL MOISTURE. THAT SAID...LARGE SCALE SUBSIDENCE AND WARM MID LEVEL TEMPS WILL PRECLUDE PRECIP CHANCES ACROSS WEST CENTRAL TX THROUGH THE FORECAST PERIOD. TEMPS WILL CONTINUE TO RUN 5-10 DEGREES ABOVE CLIMO THROUGH THE NEXT 7 DAYS WITH HIGHS IN THE MID/UPPER 90S /AND A FEW 100S AROUND/. MIN TEMPS WILL RANGE FROM THE UPPER 60S TO LOWER 70S IN MOST AREAS. JOHNSON FIRE WEATHER... NEAR CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON ACROSS THE WESTERN BIG COUNTRY AND CONCHO VALLEY...AS RELATIVE HUMIDITY IN THE 20 TO 25 PERCENT RANGE COMBINES WITH SOUTH WINDS OF 15 TO 25 MPH. FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS REMAIN ELEVATED THROUGHOUT THE NEXT SEVEN DAYS WITH PERSISTENT BREEZY SOUTHERLY FLOW...LITTLE CHANCE FOR SIGNIFICANT PRECIPITATION...AND WARMER THAN NORMAL TEMPERATURES. 21 && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... ABILENE 67 95 66 97 69 / 0 0 0 0 0 SAN ANGELO 69 96 66 98 69 / 0 0 0 0 0 JUNCTION 66 94 65 97 67 / 0 0 0 10 0 && .SJT WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NONE. && 99/99/04
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 217 PM CDT FRI JUN 3 2011 TXZ049-054-064>066-071>073-076>078-098-099-113-114-127-128-139- 140-154-155-168>170-041930- 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- 217 PM CDT FRI JUN 3 2011 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF WEST CENTRAL TEXAS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT THE COMBINATION OF SOUTH WINDS OF 15 TO 25 MPH...RELATIVE HUMIDITY VALUES LESS THAN 20 PERCENT...TEMPERATURES NEAR 100 DEGREES AND ONGOING DROUGHT CONDITIONS WILL RESULT IN NEAR CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ACROSS THE WESTERN BIG COUNTRY AND CONCHO VALLEY THIS AFTERNOON. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
3 wildfire. Local standard time, as filed.
This wildfire burned approximately 1300 acres about 5 miles south of Albany. About a hundred homes and one ranch were saved by the firefighters.
The Lambs Head Wildfire was located just west of the intersection of U.S. Highways 283 and 183 or about 13 miles west of Woodson. The wildfire was started by an electrical short.
The Dos Amigos Wildfire was located 15 miles west of Robert Lee and burned about 19,391 acres. One deer camp and numerous vehicles were destroyed. A nearby gas plant suffered minimal damage. The fire was 90% contained on June 15.
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, June 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: 320650, 320655, 320656.