A large grassfire burned 750 acres in Jack County just to the north of Jacksboro.
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A large grassfire burned 750 acres in Jack County just to the north of Jacksboro.
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 26, 2:42 PM CST, 18 minutes earlier.
Area Forecast Discussion National Weather Service Fort Worth TX 342 PM CDT Sun Sep 26 2021 ...New Long Term... .SHORT TERM... /Issued 1151 AM CDT Sun Sep 26 2021/ /Today through Monday Night/ Another spectacular afternoon is expected across North and Central Texas with some passing high clouds, temperatures near 90 degrees, low humidity, and a light south wind. Dewpoints in the upper 40s will result in humidity values around 25% this afternoon. This along with a slight uptick in wind speed will lead to an elevated grass fire threat through the afternoon. Otherwise, it will remain quiet. GOES total precipitable water imagery shows much higher moisture content still confined to the west-central Gulf this afternoon, but this moisture will gradually be pulled northward overnight tonight to near the TX Coastline in response to an approaching upstream shortwave. Monday should feature similar conditions to today, although there will be a slight increase in humidity through the afternoon along with an increase in mid and high level cloud cover. The real surge of moisture will arrive after dark where 70+ dewpoints spread north toward the Red River along and east of I-35. Highs on Monday will top out near 90 with overnight lows Monday night considerably warmer in the upper 60s and lower 70s. Dunn && .LONG TERM... /NEW/ /Tuesday Through Next Weekend/ Month-to-date precipitation totals are below normal across all of North and Central Texas, with much of the region having seen little to no measurable rainfall the entire month. But a transition to a wet pattern will allow parched areas to get a significant boost to monthly totals during the final few days of September. Our first rainmaker, currently making eastward progress through Arizona and Sonora, will continue to enhance the low-level moist advection across the Lone Star State. A blanket of stratus may be in place at daybreak Tuesday morning, but an unseasonably warm boundary layer should help these clouds to steadily erode. The approaching upper low will increase its poleward motion once it emerges from the higher terrain of the Desert Southwest. As it becomes an open wave on the High Plains, it will send a spoke of energy through our western/northwestern zones late in the day. Although well separated from the parent trough, this impulse will have sufficient lift to produce scattered showers and thunderstorms across much of North and Central Texas during the afternoon hours Tuesday. The most favorable shear will be in our western zones where steady south winds will reinforce boundary layer moisture in tandem with optimal surface heating. As a result, a few strong storms will be possible, generally west and northwest of the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex. Turbulent southwesterly flow will continue Tuesday night when additional ripples may reintroduce elevated showers and isolated storms. A well resolved shortwave will arrive about 24 hours after the first, this one digging deeper into the state, resulting in more widespread convection during the daylight hours Wednesday. Areas along and east of the I-35 corridor will likely be inhibited by cloud cover, but if updrafts are able to tap the full potential of extraordinary precipitable water values, brief heavy rain may accompany some of the cells. While some training may occur, adequate storm motion and low soil moisture should preclude significant flooding concerns. Similar to Tuesday, a few more robust surface-based storms will again be possible across the warmer/sunnier western zones at peak heating Wednesday afternoon. Multiple days of warm/moist advection well into the Central and Northern Plains will sharpen a frontal boundary on the High Plains. The front will surge into the Southern Plains, reaching North Texas on Thursday. But as a new upper low deepens across the Desert Southwest, the boundary will likely hang up. However, it may serve as a focus for renewed development as additional spokes of energy move overhead. A cloudier and rain-cooled boundary layer should limit the potential for strong storms, but additional rounds of heavy rain may begin to swell some creeks and streams late in the week. While the upper low may not fully cut off from the polar flow, it will only make slow progress eastward, maintaining rain chances into the upcoming weekend. 25 && .AVIATION... /Issued 1151 AM CDT Sun Sep 26 2021/ /18Z TAFs/ VFR will prevail through the period although there will be a gradual increase in high level cloud cover through Monday. Any MVFR cigs overnight tonight should remain well removed from North Texas, closer to the coast. South winds around 10 kt today will increase to 10-15 kt on Monday. Dunn && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... Dallas-Ft. Worth 91 66 90 71 90 / 0 0 0 5 30 Waco 89 62 89 71 91 / 0 0 0 5 30 Paris 89 62 89 67 87 / 0 0 0 5 30 Denton 91 61 91 67 90 / 0 0 0 5 30 McKinney 91 62 89 68 89 / 0 0 0 0 30 Dallas 91 67 90 73 91 / 0 0 0 0 30 Terrell 90 62 89 69 89 / 0 0 0 5 30 Corsicana 90 62 90 71 90 / 0 0 0 5 30 Temple 90 60 90 68 91 / 0 0 0 5 40 Mineral Wells 90 59 90 66 89 / 0 0 0 5 30 && .FWD WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... None. &&
Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Fort Worth TX 343 PM CDT Sun Sep 26 2021 TXZ091>095-100>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-271200- 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- 343 PM CDT Sun Sep 26 2021 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...Monday through Saturday. There will be an elevated fire weather threat mainly west of I-35 on Monday. Daily thunderstorm chances will begin on Tuesday and continue into next weekend. Although the potential for organized severe thunderstorms is low, a few strong storms could produce gusty winds and heavy rainfall during this time period. .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.
A grassfire in Jack County burned 750 acres. The fire was located along Red Road and Highway 59 to the north of Jacksboro. No structures were reported damaged.
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