Wildfire, Atoka
- When
- February 11, 12:00 PM CST to 6:00 PM CST
- Where
- Atoka forecast zone
- Reported by
- Park/Forest Service
- Coordinates
- 34.374, -96.038 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Wildfire in Oklahoma, February 11, 2016
Amidst windy and dry conditions, grass fires burned 325 acres in Atoka county on the 11th.
Where it happened
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- Heat and drought
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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 OUN wrote it up.
Amidst windy and dry conditions, grass fires burned 325 acres in Atoka county on the 11th.
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 Norman, OK wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Feb 11, 11:24 AM CST, 36 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 11, 11:24 AM CST, 36 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK 1124 AM CST THU FEB 11 2016 .AVIATION... NORTHEAST WINDS WILL BECOME LIGHT AND VARIABLE BY LATE AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING. ANOTHER FRONT WILL MOVE ACROSS THE REGION FRIDAY MORNING. GUSTY NORTH TO NORTHEAST WINDS CAN BE EXPECTED BEHIND THIS FRONT. OTHERWISE...VFR CONDITIONS WILL PREVAIL THROUGH 18Z FRIDAY. && .PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 528 AM CST THU FEB 11 2016/ DISCUSSION... THE 12Z AVIATION DISCUSSION FOLLOWS.... AVIATION... A COLD FRONT NEAR THE RED RIVER WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE S TODAY...LEAVING GENERALLY N WINDS IN ITS WAKE ACROSS N TX AND OK. WINDS WILL BECOME LIGHT AND VARIABLE TONIGHT...THEN SHIFT BACK TO THE N AGAIN TOMORROW...AS ANOTHER COLD FRONT MOVES S ACROSS THE REGION. DRY AIR WILL RESULT IN ONLY A FEW HIGH CLOUDS...AND NO SIGNIFICANT RESTRICTIONS TO VISIBILITY. CMS && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... OKLAHOMA CITY OK 58 33 60 28 / 0 0 0 0 HOBART OK 61 34 63 30 / 0 0 0 0 WICHITA FALLS TX 66 35 66 33 / 0 0 0 0 GAGE OK 61 30 58 24 / 0 0 0 0 PONCA CITY OK 51 30 54 24 / 0 0 0 0 DURANT OK 66 37 65 36 / 0 0 0 0 && .OUN WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... OK...NONE. TX...NONE. &&
Hazardous weather outlook, Feb 11, 11:48 AM CST, 12 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK 1148 AM CST THU FEB 11 2016 OKZ004>048-050>052-TXZ083>090-121100- HARPER-WOODS-ALFALFA-GRANT-KAY-ELLIS-WOODWARD-MAJOR-GARFIELD- NOBLE-ROGER MILLS-DEWEY-CUSTER-BLAINE-KINGFISHER-LOGAN-PAYNE- BECKHAM-WASHITA-CADDO-CANADIAN-OKLAHOMA-LINCOLN-GRADY-MCCLAIN- CLEVELAND-POTTAWATOMIE-SEMINOLE-HUGHES-HARMON-GREER-KIOWA-JACKSON- TILLMAN-COMANCHE-STEPHENS-GARVIN-MURRAY-PONTOTOC-COAL-COTTON- JEFFERSON-CARTER-JOHNSTON-ATOKA-LOVE-MARSHALL-BRYAN-HARDEMAN- FOARD-WILBARGER-WICHITA-KNOX-BAYLOR-ARCHER-CLAY- 1148 AM CST THU FEB 11 2016 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHERN... WESTERN...CENTRAL...AND SOUTHERN OKLAHOMA...AND WESTERN NORTH TEXAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY... .THUNDERSTORMS... ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE SUNDAY ACROSS FAR SOUTHERN OKLAHOMA AND WESTERN NORTH TEXAS. NO SEVERE WEATHER IS ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME. GET GRAPHICS AND MORE DETAILS AT WEATHER.GOV/NORMAN...AND FOLLOW OUR WEATHER FORECAST OFFICE ON TWITTER AND FACEBOOK.
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
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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: 613551.