Lightning ignited a fire at Salt Creek Ranch, about five miles west of Lometa, Texas. The fire was located along Lampasas County Road 1610.
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Lightning ignited a fire at Salt Creek Ranch, about five miles west of Lometa, Texas. The fire was located along Lampasas County Road 1610. Two thousand one hundred acres were burned in the fire, which began in the early morning hours of Monday, September 10th and was contained and extinguished on Friday, September 14th.
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 Fort Worth, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Sep 9, 10:43 PM CST, 2 hours 32 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 1143 PM CDT SUN SEP 9 2012 .AVIATION... VFR CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED THROUGH 12Z TUESDAY. AS SURFACE HIGH PRESSURE MOVES EASTWARD...LIGHT AND VARIABLE WINDS /CALM OR MOSTLY EAST TO SOUTHEAST WINDS AT LESS THAN 5 KNOTS/ WILL PREVAIL THROUGH MONDAY MORNING. A MORE STEADY SOUTHEAST WIND OF 5 TO 8 KNOTS IS EXPECTED BY MIDDAY MONDAY. 58 && .UPDATE... ANOTHER CALM AND COOL NIGHT IS EXPECTED ACROSS NORTH AND CENTRAL TEXAS. LIGHT AND VARIABLE WINDS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE NIGHT AND MID LEVEL CLOUDS WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE WEST TO EAST ACROSS THE REGION. THE MID LEVEL CLOUDS WILL LIKELY SLOWLY DISSIPATE OVERNIGHT. TEMPERATURES OVERNIGHT WILL AGAIN FALL INTO THE 50S AND AROUND 60 DEGREES AREAWIDE. 82/JLD && .PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 244 PM CDT SUN SEP 9 2012/ BROAD SURFACE HIGH PRESSURE CONTINUES TO DOMINATE NORTH TEXAS WEATHER TODAY. AFTER A VERY COOL MORNING START WITH DFW FALLING JUST SHORT OF A RECORD LOW AT 57 DEGREES AND WACO BREAKING A RECORD AT 50 DEGREES...TEMPERATURES HAVE WARMED UP NICELY TO BETWEEN 85 AND 90 DEGREES SO FAR THIS AFTERNOON. A WEAK SHEAR AXIS ALOFT OVER FAR WEST TEXAS CONTINUES PROVIDING SOME SPOTTY MID AND HIGH CLOUDINESS ACROSS PARTS OF THE AREA. NOT MUCH CHANGE EXPECTED IN AIRMASS CHARACTERISTICS TONIGHT AND NORTH TEXAS WILL SEE ONE MORE COOL MORNING MONDAY. THE CLOUDS SHOULD BE SCATTERED IN NATURE AND NOT HAVE A MUCH EFFECT ON RADIATIONAL COOLING TONIGHT WITH WINDS REMAINING LIGHT. DFW SHOULD BE AROUND 60 AND NOT THREATEN ANY LOW TEMPERATURE RECORDS...HOWEVER WACO AND OTHER LOW LYING AREAS OF NORTH TEXAS SHOULD FALL WELL INTO THE 50S AGAIN. THE LOW TEMPERATURE RECORD FOR WACO MONDAY MORNING IS 52 AND THEY WILL LIKELY FALL CLOSE TO THAT. A RIDGE ALOFT SHOULD DOMINATE NORTH TEXAS WEATHER THROUGH MID WEEK WITH DRY AND VERY WARM CONDITIONS...BUT NOTHING LIKE THE HEAT SEEN LAST WEEK. HAVE RAISED HIGHS INTO THE MID 90S WITH THE AIRMASS REMAINING DRY THROUGH WEDNESDAY WITH THE RIDGE STRENGTHEN EARLY THIS WEEK. OVERNIGHT LOWS WILL WILL NOT BE AS COOL WITH READINGS IN THE 60S TO LOWER 70S MID WEEK. LATE THIS WEEK INTO NEXT WEEKEND IS WHEN THINGS BECOME A LITTLE MORE UNCERTAIN. A DISTURBANCE MOVING EAST ACROSS THE CANADIAN BORDER WILL BEGIN AN INTENSIFICATION PROCESS ACROSS THE NORTHERN PLAINS AND UPPER MIDWEST THROUGH THURSDAY. THIS WILL AIDE IN BRINGING ANOTHER COLD FRONT DOWN THROUGH THE PLAINS. MEANWHILE...AN AREA OF DISTURBED WEATHER OVER THE GULF OF MEXICO WILL RETREAT SLOWLY NORTH OVER LOUISIANA. THE RETURN OF SOUTH-SOUTHEAST WINDS WILL GRADUALLY BRING 60 DEW POINTS BACK ACROSS THE REGION BY THURSDAY. THE GFS IS STRONGER AND FASTER WITH THE FRONT ARRIVE THURSDAY NIGHT...WHILE THE SLOWER ECMWF HOLDS IT BACK AND WITH A LATER ARRIVAL MORE ON FRIDAY NIGHT OR POSSIBLY SATURDAY. BEING THAT IT IS STILL ONLY THE FIRST HALF OF SEPTEMBER AND WITH A POSITIVELY TILTED UPPER DISTURBANCE TO THE NORTH...FEEL THE SLOWER SOLUTION IS MORE PRUDENT AT THIS POINT. WILL MAINTAIN LOW POPS THURSDAY INTO FRIDAY DUE TO THE INCREASE OF TROPICAL MOISTURE...BUT FEEL THE BEST CHANCES WILL BE WITH THE DISTURBANCE AND COLD FRONT FRIDAY NIGHT INTO SATURDAY. A LOT OF VARIABLES IN PLAY HERE AND UNCERTAINTY REGARDING TIMING...COVERAGE... AND INTENSITY. WE WILL CONTINUE TO FINE TUNE THE FORECAST AS MODELS CONVERGE ON A SOLUTION REGARDING THE LATE WEEK SYSTEM. 05/ && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... DALLAS-FT. WORTH, TX 61 94 66 95 69 / 0 0 0 0 0 WACO, TX 53 94 61 95 66 / 0 0 0 0 0 PARIS, TX 57 92 62 94 64 / 0 0 0 0 0 DENTON, TX 53 93 59 94 62 / 0 0 0 0 0 MCKINNEY, TX 52 93 57 94 61 / 0 0 0 0 0 DALLAS, TX 62 94 67 94 70 / 0 0 0 0 0 TERRELL, TX 56 92 62 93 65 / 0 0 0 0 0 CORSICANA, TX 60 94 63 94 66 / 0 0 0 0 0 TEMPLE, TX 54 93 60 94 65 / 0 0 0 0 0 MINERAL WELLS, TX 53 91 59 94 63 / 0 0 0 0 0 && .FWD WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NONE. && 58/82
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 558 PM CDT SUN SEP 9 2012 TXZ091>095-100>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-101130- MONTAGUE-COOKE-GRAYSON-FANNIN-LAMAR-YOUNG-JACK-WISE-DENTON-COLLIN- HUNT-DELTA-HOPKINS-STEPHENS-PALO PINTO-PARKER-TARRANT-DALLAS- ROCKWALL-KAUFMAN-VAN ZANDT-RAINS-EASTLAND-ERATH-HOOD-SOMERVELL- JOHNSON-ELLIS-HENDERSON-COMANCHE-MILLS-HAMILTON-BOSQUE-HILL-NAVARRO- FREESTONE-ANDERSON-LAMPASAS-CORYELL-BELL-MCLENNAN-FALLS-LIMESTONE- LEON-MILAM-ROBERTSON- 558 PM CDT SUN SEP 9 2012 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH TEXAS. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY. THUNDERSTORM CHANCES RETURN TO PORTIONS OF NORTH TEXAS THURSDAY... AND TO ALL OF NORTH TEXAS FRIDAY AND SATURDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 wildfire. Local standard time, as filed.
Lightning ignited a 2,100 acre wild fire approximately 5 miles west of Lometa, TX.
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