A large wildfire broke out on August 2nd along Interstate 10 in Sutton County. As the rains ended in early July, hardly any rain fell through the first part of August.
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The episode as NWS SJT wrote it up.
A large wildfire broke out on August 2nd along Interstate 10 in Sutton County. As the rains ended in early July, hardly any rain fell through the first part of August. Plenty of the vegetation that blossomed from the wet spring, quickly dried, and fueled the wildfires.
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 Aug 2, 6:06 AM CST, 2 hours 54 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 706 AM CDT SUN AUG 2 2015 .AVIATION... /12Z TAFS/ SCATTERED MID LEVEL CLOUDS WILL AFFECT TERMINALS THIS MORNING. OTHERWISE, VFR NEXT 24 HOURS WITH SOUTHEAST TO SOUTH WINDS 10 KTS OR LESS. && .PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 336 AM CDT SUN AUG 2 2015/ SHORT TERM... (TODAY AND TONIGHT) HRRR AND GFS MODELS INDICATED SOME ISOLATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS MOVING SOUTH INTO THE THE BIG COUNTRY TODAY, IN WEAK NORTHWEST FLOW ALOFT. KEPT A SLIGHT CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS FOR THE BIG COUNTRY TODAY AND TONIGHT. UPPER RIDGING OTHERWISE SHOULD ELSEWHERE SUPPRESS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. HIGHS TODAY WILL BE IN THE MID AND UPPER 90S, MAINLY DUE TO INCREASED CLOUDS AND ISOLATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. LONG TERM(MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY)... A WEAK SHORTWAVE TROUGH AT MID LEVELS OF THE ATMOSPHERE WILL MOVE TOWARD THE EAST GRAZING NORTHERN PORTIONS OF THE FORECAST AREA ON SUNDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING. COOL TEMPERATURES ALOFT COMBINED WITH STRONG SURFACE HEATING WILL RESULT IN SLIGHTLY UNSTABLE AIR AND A SLIGHT CHANCE FOR A FEW BRIEF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE BIG COUNTRY AND WESTERN MOST COUNTIES INTO EARLY MONDAY MORNING. THE TROUGH MOVES EAST AWAY FROM THE AREA ON MONDAY AND HIGH PRESSURE ALOFT BUILDS IN ACROSS THE AREA. THIS WILL PROVIDE DRY WEATHER AND HOT TEMPERATURES NEAR OR SLIGHTLY ABOVE THE 100 DEGREE MARK THROUGH THE WEEK AND INTO NEXT SATURDAY. WINDS WILL BE LIGHT TO MODERATE FROM THE SOUTH OR SOUTHEAST. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... ABILENE 97 74 99 76 / 20 10 10 5 SAN ANGELO 99 74 100 74 / 10 5 5 5 JUNCTION 98 72 99 72 / 10 5 0 0 && .SJT WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NONE. && 99/99/04
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 516 AM CDT SUN AUG 2 2015 TXZ049-054-064>066-071>073-076>078-098-099-113-114-127-128-139- 140-154-155-168>170-031030- 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- 516 AM CDT SUN AUG 2 2015 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF WEST CENTRAL TEXAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE TODAY AND TONIGHT...MAINLY ALONG AND NORTH OF THE INTERSTATE 20 CORRIDOR. THE MAIN THREATS WILL BE STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY ISOLATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE MONDAY, NORTH OF THE I-20 CORRIDOR. THE MAIN THREATS WILL BE STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 wildfire. Local standard time, as filed.
The Fort McKavett Complex Fire along Interstate 10 burned approximately 8500 acres about 15 miles east southeast of Sonora.
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