Wildfire, Garland
- When
- January 23, 3:30 PM CST to January 29, 8:00 AM CST
- Where
- Garland forecast zone
- Reported by
- Park/Forest Service
- Coordinates
- 34.577, -93.150 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Wildfire in Arkansas, January 23 to 29, 2014
On the afternoon of the 23rd, a wildfire was discovered about 4 miles northwest of Mountain Pine in Garland County. The fire was located on a peninsula in Lake Ouachita, within the Ouachita National Forest.
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.
On the afternoon of the 23rd, a wildfire was discovered about 4 miles northwest of Mountain Pine in Garland County. The fire was located on a peninsula in Lake Ouachita, within the Ouachita National Forest. Recent dry weather, low humidities, and occasional windy conditions had made conditions favorable for wildfires. This fire was started by an escaped campfire. It was named the Frostbite Fire, because firefighters often had to deal with very chilly conditions. The fire eventually burned 2131 acres, which included the wildfire itself and areas that were back-burned to control the fire. Control of the fire was achieved on the morning of the 29th.
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 Jan 23, 2:58 PM CST, 32 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 23, 2:58 PM CST, 32 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 258 PM CST THU JAN 23 2014 .SHORT TERM...TONIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY NIGHT MUCH COLDER AIR MOVED INTO THE STATE...WITH MUCH OF THE STATE REACHING THEIR HIGH TEMPERATURE THIS MORNING. WINDS HAVE BEEN DECREASING...AND WILL ALLOW LAKE WIND ADVISORY EXPIRE AT 3 PM. WINDS WILL BE RELATIVELY LIGHT TONIGHT...AND EVEN THOUGH WIND CHILLS WILL BE BELOW ZERO ACROSS THE NORTH...WIND SPEEDS WILL NOT BE STRONG ENOUGH FOR ANY HEADLINES. SOME SNOW FLURRIES WERE OBSERVED TODAY...AS THE COLD AIR SQUEEZED OUT THE LITTLE AVAILABLE MOISTURE ACROSS THE REGION. WHILE THERE WILL BE SNOW FLURRIES POSSIBLE ACROSS THE SOUTH THIS EVENING...MUCH OF THE MOISTURE WILL REMAIN ACROSS LOUISIANA. TEMPERATURES WILL CONTINUE THEIR WILD SWING IN THE SHORT TERM. LOWS TONIGHT WILL BE VERY COLD...WITH SINGLE DIGITS COMMON ACROSS THE NORTH. READINGS ACROSS THE WEST WILL LIKELY WARM BEFORE SUNRISE...AS SOUTH WINDS SET UP. THE SURFACE HIGH WILL QUICKLY MOVE SOUTH OF THE STATE...AND SOUTHWEST WINDS WILL RETURN FOR FRIDAY. WIND SPEEDS WILL ONCE AGAIN BECOME BREEZY...WITH ANOTHER LAKE WIND ADVISORY LIKELY NEEDED FRIDAY AFTERNOON. THE SOUTH WINDS WILL BRING WARMER TEMPERATURES...BUT STILL BELOW NORMAL. ANOTHER FRONT WILL MOVE INTO THE REGION SATURDAY...WITH MAINLY A WIND SHIFT. HIGHS SATURDAY AFTERNOON WILL BE CLOSER TO NORMAL...AND EVEN WARMER FOR SUNDAY. A COLD FRONT WILL MOVE IN SUNDAY NIGHT...AND ONCE AGAIN MOVE THROUGH DRY. HOWEVER...THE COOL DOWN WILL CONTINUE INTO THE LONG TERM. && .LONG TERM...MONDAY THROUGH THURSDAY THE LONG TERM PERIODS CONTINUE TO LOOK RATHER COLD...AS UPPER LEVEL FLOW REMAINS NORTHWEST OR NEARLY MERIDIONAL. SEVERAL WEAK WAVES WILL MOVE THROUGH...WITH VERY LITTLE DEEP-LAYER MOISTURE TO WORK WITH. THUS...NO PRECIPITATION IS EXPECTED AT THIS POINT. IT GOES WITHOUT SAYING THAT TEMPERATURES WILL REMAIN BELOW SEASONAL AVERAGES...ESPECIALLY IN THE EARLY PART OF THE PERIOD. READINGS WILL MODERATE BY THURSDAY...BUT SHOULD STILL BE LESS THAN AVERAGE FOR THIS TIME OF YEAR. && .LZK WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...NONE. && SHORT TERM...58 / LONG TERM...57
Hazardous weather outlook, Jan 23, 1:10 PM CST, 2 hours 20 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 110 PM CST THU JAN 23 2014 ARZ003>007-012>016-021>025-030>034-037>047-052>057-062>069-241100- 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- 110 PM CST THU JAN 23 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR A LARGE PART OF ARKANSAS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT GUSTY WINDS WILL CONTINUE OVER ARKANSAS THROUGH THE AFTERNOON... BUT SHOULD DIMINISH BEFORE SUNSET. THE GUSTY WINDS WILL CREATE HAZARDOUS CONDITIONS ON AREA BODIES OF WATER. THE GUSTY WINDS... WHEN COMBINED WITH COLD TEMPERATURES WILL CREATE RATHER CHILLY CONDITIONS THIS AFTERNOON...WITH WIND CHILL VALUES LARGELY IN THE SINGLE DIGITS AND TEENS. THE WILD FIRE DANGER THREAT WILL REMAIN ELEVATED DUE TO LOWER RELATIVE HUMIDITY...GUSTY WINDS AND DRY CONDITIONS. THE ARKANSAS FORESTRY COMMISSION HAS DETERMINED THAT THE ENTIRE STATE HAS A MODERATE WILDFIRE DANGER...WITH A HIGH WILDFIRE DANGER IN CENTRAL ARKANSAS. BURN BANS HAVE ALSO BEEN POSTED IN SEVERAL COUNTIES. EVEN IF YOU ARE NOT IN THESE COUNTIES...OUTDOOR BURNING IS STRONGLY DISCOURAGED. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY THE WILD FIRE DANGER THREAT WILL REMAIN ELEVATED ON FRIDAY DUE TO LOWER RELATIVE HUMIDITY...GUSTY WINDS AND DRY CONDITIONS. THE ARKANSAS FORESTRY COMMISSION HAS DETERMINED THAT THE ENTIRE STATE HAS A MODERATE WILDFIRE DANGER...WITH A HIGH WILDFIRE DANGER IN CENTRAL ARKANSAS. BURN BANS HAVE BEEN POSTED IN SEVERAL COUNTIES. OUTDOOR BURNING IS STRONGLY DISCOURAGED. SOME WARMING WILL BE SEEN OVER THE WEEKEND...BUT DRY WEATHER CONDITIONS WILL CONTINUE. DRY COLD FRONTS WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE THROUGH ARKANSAS EVERY TWO TO THREE DAYS INTO NEXT WEEK...AND TEMPERATURES WILL BE TURNING MUCH COLDER BY MONDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED. && VISIT NWS LITTLE ROCK ON THE WEB. GO TO HTTP://WEATHER.GOV AND CLICK ON CENTRAL ARKANSAS. 59/57
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
- Ice Storm and Winter Storm in Louisiana, January 23 to 24, 2014
- Cold in Illinois, January 23, 2014
- Ice Storm in Texas, January 23 to 24, 2014
- Dust Storm and High Wind in California, January 23 to 24, 2014
- Strong Wind in Washington, January 23 to 24, 2014
- Winter Storm in Texas, January 23 to 24, 2014
- Winter Weather in Louisiana, January 23 to 24, 2014
- Flood in Alaska, January 23 to 24, 2014
- Cold in Illinois, January 23, 2014
- Extreme Cold in Minnesota, January 23, 2014
- Winter Storm and Winter Weather in Texas, January 23 to 24, 2014
- Winter Weather in Texas, January 23 to 24, 2014
More
Every storm in Arkansas in 2014Every state in 2014This day in weather historyWarnings in Arkansas, January 2014
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: 488065.