Wildfire, Sharp
- When
- February 29, 5:00 PM CST to 10:10 PM CST
- Where
- Sharp forecast zone
- Reported by
- Park/Forest Service
- Coordinates
- 36.161, -91.480 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Wildfire in Arkansas, February 29, 2012
Low humidities and gusty winds made conditions favorable for wildfires late in February. On the 29th, a wildfire 4 miles northeast of Evening Shade in Sharp County burned 150 acres.
Where it happened
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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 LZK wrote it up.
Low humidities and gusty winds made conditions favorable for wildfires late in February. On the 29th, a wildfire 4 miles northeast of Evening Shade in Sharp County burned 150 acres.
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 Little Rock, AR wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Feb 29, 2:50 PM CST, 2 hours 10 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 29, 2:50 PM CST, 2 hours 10 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 250 PM CST WED FEB 29 2012 .SHORT TERM...TONIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY NIGHT COLD FRONT MOVED INTO THE STATE TODAY...WITH MUCH DRIER AIR BEHIND IT. DEW POINTS FELL 29 DEGREES AT LITTLE ROCK ADAMS FIELD BETWEEN 1 AND 2 PM...WITH RELATIVE HUMIDITIES IN THE SINGLE DIGITS ACROSS FAR WESTERN ARKANSAS. DUE TO THIS DRY AIR...RED FLAG WARNINGS HAVE BEEN ISSUED ACROSS NORTHERN AND WESTERN COUNTIES. THIS COLD FRONT WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE SOUTHEAST...BUT WITH DEW POINTS STILL IN THE MID 60S AHEAD OF THE FRONT...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS REMAIN POSSIBLE. HOWEVER...MUCH OF THE ACTIVITY WILL REMAIN SOUTHEAST OF THE AREA...WITH ONLY CHANCE POPS IN FOR EARLY THIS EVENING...WITH RAINFALL ENDING ACROSS THE SOUTHEAST BEFORE MIDNIGHT. THE FRONT WILL STALL ACROSS NORTHERN LOUISIANA TONIGHT INTO THURSDAY BEFORE LIFTING BACK TO THE NORTH AS A WARM FRONT THURSDAY NIGHT. DUE TO THE PLACEMENT OF THE FRONT...THE HIGHEST POPS WILL BE ACROSS THE EASTERN HALF OF THE STATE THURSDAY NIGHT. THE SETUP FOR FRIDAY WILL BE SIMILAR TO YESTERDAY AND TODAY...WITH WARM FRONT MOVING NORTH...THEN SURFACE LOW DRAGGING COLD FRONT INTO THE STATE. ON FRIDAY HOWEVER...THE SURFACE LOW WILL MOVE ACROSS NORTHERN ARKANSAS/SOUTHERN MISSOURI...WHICH WILL GIVE MORE AVAILABLE FORCING AND BETTER WINDS FIELDS TO THE SYSTEM. THE EXACT PLACEMENT OF THESE FEATURES IS STILL TO BE DETERMINED...BUT AS OF NOW...THIS COULD BE A POTENTIAL SEVERE WEATHER EVENT. THE MOST LIKELY SEVERE WEATHER WILL BE ACROSS THE EASTERN HALF OF THE STATE. && .LONG TERM...SUNDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY A WEAK FRONT WILL PASS THROUGH THE REGION AROUND SUNDAY...WITH HIGH PRESSURE FOLLOWING IN ITS WAKE. RETURN FLOW WILL SET UP BY MONDAY... AS THE HIGH SHIFTS EASWARD. BY MID WEEK...RAIN CHANCES RETURN TO THE FORECAST AS STRONG SOUTHERLY FLOW SETS UP AHEAD OF LOW PRESSURE DEVELOPING IN THE PLAINS...AND AN UPPER SYSTEM APPROACHES IN SOUTHWEST FLOW ALOFT. && .LZK WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... RED FLAG WARNING UNTIL 6 PM CST THIS EVENING FOR BAXTER-BOONE- CLEBURNE-CONWAY-FULTON-GARLAND-INDEPENDENCE-IZARD-JOHNSON-LOGAN- MARION-MONTGOMERY-NEWTON-PERRY-PIKE-POLK-POPE-SCOTT-SEARCY-SHARP- STONE-VAN BUREN-YELL. && SHORT TERM...58 / LONG TERM...57
Hazardous weather outlook, Feb 29, 1:35 PM CST, 3 hours 25 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 135 PM CST WED FEB 29 2012 ARZ003>007-012>016-021>025-030>034-037>047-052>057-062>069-011100- ARKANSAS-BAXTER-BOONE-BRADLEY-CALHOUN-CLARK-CLEBURNE-CLEVELAND- CONWAY-DALLAS-DESHA-DREW-FAULKNER-FULTON-GARLAND-GRANT-HOT SPRING- INDEPENDENCE-IZARD-JACKSON-JEFFERSON-JOHNSON-LINCOLN-LOGAN-LONOKE- MARION-MONROE-MONTGOMERY-NEWTON-OUACHITA-PERRY-PIKE-POLK-POPE- PRAIRIE-PULASKI-SALINE-SCOTT-SEARCY-SHARP-STONE-VAN BUREN-WHITE- WOODRUFF-YELL- 135 PM CST WED FEB 29 2012 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR A LARGE PART OF ARKANSAS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT A COLD FRONT WILL CONTINUE TO PUSH ACROSS CENTRAL AND EASTERN ARKANSAS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE AHEAD OF THE FRONT. ISOLATED SEVERE STORMS COULD OCCUR...MAINLY IN THE SOUTHEAST PORTION OF THE STATE. ANY STORMS THAT BECOME SEVERE WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. GUSTY WINDS WILL USHER IN MUCH DRIER AIR BEHIND THE FRONT. THE COMBINATION OF THE WINDS AND LOW HUMIDITY WILL CREATE A HIGH WILDFIRE DANGER. A RED FLAG WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR THE ARKANSAS RIVER VALLEY AND WESTERN ARKANSAS THROUGH THIS EVENING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY THE FRONT WILL STALL ALONG THE GULF COAST TONIGHT AND THURSDAY. DRIER AIR WILL BE NOTED BEHIND THE FRONT. ON FRIDAY...A STORM SYSTEM WILL TRACK FROM THE CENTRAL PLAINS INTO THE MID-MISSISSIPPI VALLEY. IN RESPONSE TO THE SYSTEM...THE STALLED FRONT TO THE SOUTH WILL MOVE BACK INTO THE STATE...AND MOISTURE WILL INCREASE. THE SYSTEM WILL DRAG A NEW COLD FRONT INTO ARKANSAS FRIDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THE FRONT WILL TRIGGER ANOTHER ROUND OF SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS. SOME OF THE STORMS COULD BE SEVERE SOUTH AND EAST OF LITTLE ROCK. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED TODAY AND AGAIN ON FRIDAY IN THE SOUTHEAST HALF OF ARKANSAS. && VISIT NWS LITTLE ROCK ON THE WEB. GO TO HTTP://WEATHER.GOV AND CLICK ON CENTRAL ARKANSAS. 46/57
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
- Tornadoes and Hail in Illinois, February 29, 2012
- Tornadoes and Hail in Tennessee, February 29, 2012
- Tornadoes and Hail in Missouri, February 29, 2012
- Tornadoes and Flash Flood in Kentucky, February 29, 2012
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Kentucky, February 29, 2012
- Tornadoes and Flash Flood in Kentucky, February 29, 2012
- Flash Flooding and Flood in West Virginia, February 29, 2012
- Tornado and Hail in Missouri, February 29, 2012
- Flash Flooding and Debris Flow in West Virginia, February 29, 2012
- High Wind in Iowa, February 29, 2012
- Tornado and Hail in Tennessee, February 29, 2012
- Damaging Winds in Mississippi, February 29, 2012
More
Every storm in Arkansas in 2012Every state in 2012This day in weather historyWarnings in Arkansas, February 2012
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: 359245.