The Pennington Creek Fire burned August 10th-13th in Jack and Palo Pinto counties. It burned a total of 2,654 acres.
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The episode as NWS FWD wrote it up.
The Pennington Creek Fire burned August 10th-13th in Jack and Palo Pinto counties. It burned a total of 2,654 acres.
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 Aug 10, 1:57 PM CST, 1 hour 16 minutes earlier.
Area Forecast Discussion National Weather Service Fort Worth TX 257 PM CDT Mon Aug 10 2020 .SHORT TERM... /Issued 107 PM CDT Mon Aug 10 2020/ /Through Tuesday/ The hot and dry weather continues across North and Central TX. The mercury is already showing low/mid 90s region-wide, and will reach upper 90s in the next couple of hours. At least, the ongoing breeze helps a little bit with the heat. Nevertheless, the "feel- like" temps will easily each the low 100s. Wind gusts in the 20-25 kt range will continue through the evening. Otherwise, a warm night with lows again in the upper 70s to low 80s (especially in the urban areas). As mentioned in previous forecasts, a mid-level disturbance will travel southward across Oklahoma on Tuesday. While the best rain/storm chances will stay north of the Red River, we can't rule the possibility of a leftover outflow boundary slipping into our northeastern counties in the afternoon. Decided to keep PoPs in the 10-20% range across the far northern zones to account this potential. Temperature-wise, we're looking at another hot day with highs in the upper 90s, with a few spots hitting the 100s degrees. Sanchez && .LONG TERM... /NEW/ /Wednesday Onward/ Hot and mostly dry conditions will persist through the rest of the week. The upper ridge will gradually shift westward through this time period, and become repositioned across the Desert Southwest by Thursday. In the meantime, occasional shortwaves will ripple across the northern fringes of the ridge, leading to showers and thunderstorms across portions of the Central Plains. This activity is expected to remain displaced north of the forecast area. Highs will be a few degrees above normal in the upper 90s to around 102 out west. Heat index values will climb into the 102-107 degree range each afternoon, especially across our east/southeast zones where dewpoints will mix out the least. This may necessitate a Heat Advisory for most or all of the CWA later in the week. Otherwise, elevated fire danger will continue west of I-35 due to low humidity and a steady south breeze in an area with ample cured fuels. For the end of the week and into the weekend, the operational GFS is a significantly wet outlier compared to most of the GEFS members and European solutions. It appears to be suffering from some convective feedback issues, spilling upstream convection into North Texas both Friday and Saturday. Ensemble and statistical guidance, however, support a dry forecast with the ridge holding strong through the first half of the weekend. As a result, have maintained a dry forecast during this time period. By Sunday, enough of a westward shift of the 500mb ridge and stronger disturbances within north flow aloft could actually allow some rain chances to return late in the day or perhaps into Monday. In addition, some attendant cloud cover and the lower heights aloft should shave a few degrees off high temperatures heading into early next week. There's even a small chance that a weak front may drift far enough south to turn our winds to the north next Monday, although this remains uncertain given it's a day 8 forecast. -Stalley && .AVIATION... /Issued 107 PM CDT Mon Aug 10 2020/ /18z TAFs/ Concerns...NONE VFR cigs an breezy south winds are expected to continue across all TAF sites through the forecast period. Wind gusts in the 20-25 kt range will be possible through this evening. There is a chance that another round of scattered MVFR cigs may approach the Central TX counties Tuesday morning and impact the Waco TAF site. For now, opted to keep VFR cigs, as these low cigs would likely be short- lived (like we saw this morning). However, a TEMPO might be needed if confidence of MVFR occurring for a longer time period increases. Sanchez && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... Dallas-Ft. Worth 80 99 80 99 80 / 0 5 0 0 0 Waco 78 98 77 101 77 / 0 0 0 0 0 Paris 76 96 75 96 76 / 5 10 5 5 5 Denton 79 99 79 99 80 / 5 5 5 0 0 McKinney 79 98 79 99 79 / 5 5 0 0 0 Dallas 81 99 80 100 80 / 0 5 0 0 0 Terrell 78 99 77 100 77 / 0 5 0 0 0 Corsicana 77 98 77 98 77 / 0 5 0 0 0 Temple 77 99 76 101 76 / 0 0 0 0 0 Mineral Wells 78 100 76 101 77 / 0 5 0 0 0 && .FWD WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... None. && 26/17
Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Fort Worth TX 258 PM CDT Mon Aug 10 2020 TXZ091>095-100>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-111200- 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- 258 PM CDT Mon Aug 10 2020 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for North and Central Texas. .DAY ONE...Tonight. No hazardous weather is expected at this time. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Tuesday through Sunday. Heat index values will range between 100-108 Wednesday through Friday across most of the area. Take the necessary precautions to avoid heat-related illness. Isolated storms may affect areas north of a Bonham to Paris line on Tuesday. Severe weather is not expected. .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.
The Pennington Fire started approximately 4 miles northwest of Graford on the afternoon of August 10th. It was contained on August 13th after burning 2,654 acres in Palo Pinto and Jack Counties. At least one barn was reported destroyed.
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