The Crittenberg Complex burned 33,175 acres, nearly all of which was on Fort Hood training grounds. A small part burned outside the Fort Hood lines towards the City of Flat, but no damage occurred.
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The Crittenberg Complex burned 33,175 acres, nearly all of which was on Fort Hood training grounds. A small part burned outside the Fort Hood lines towards the City of Flat, but no damage occurred.
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NWS Fort Worth, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Mar 27, 2:06 PM CST, 1 hour 24 minutes earlier.
Area Forecast Discussion National Weather Service Fort Worth TX 306 PM CDT Sun Mar 27 2022 ...New Long Term... .SHORT TERM... /Issued 116 PM CDT Sun Mar 27 2022/ /Through Monday/ The main concern through the rest of today is the fire weather threat west of I-35 where a Red Flag Warning remains in effect through 8 PM. RH values are already in the single digits for some of our western zones, and temperatures will continue climbing to around 90 degrees with breezy southwest winds over the next few hours. A quasistationary boundary undergoing frontolysis is still draped across North Texas where contrast in theta-e and wind speeds are evident. Its presence is helping to confine the fire danger to the Red Flag Warning area since humidity is noticeably higher and wind speeds are significantly lower in the vicinity of this boundary. This front should lift farther northward later today before washing out completely tonight. Overnight, greater moisture return will finally occur with dewpoints in the upper 40s and 50s pushing into North Texas by tomorrow morning. Our newfound moisture should be accompanied by a morning stratus intrusion which will keep skies partly cloudy across portions of Central and East Texas into the day tomorrow. While exceptionally low humidity has been allowing for very strong diabatic heating of the boundary layer the past few days, greater moisture content and some sky cover should keep tomrrow's highs a few degrees lower than today's, mainly in the mid/upper 80s with a couple 90s out west. However, breezy southerly winds will stick around, and elevated fire conditions may materialize across our western zones where humidity will still fall below 30% despite the modest moisture return. -Stalley && .LONG TERM... /NEW/ /Monday Night Onward/ The primary concern this week is the threat of severe weather Tuesday night into Wednesday morning. The primary threat at this time is damaging wind gusts along a line of storms with secondary threats of large hail and spin-up tornadoes. As the event draws closer, more specific threats and threat areas will continue to be honed in. Details & Full Discussion: The week will begin under a strong warm and moist advective regime until FROPA Tuesday night. Despite this, daily afternoon highs are expected to be lower Tuesday as increased moisture helps regulate insolation in the afternoon. The overnight lows, less impacted by the diurnal cycle, show a quick warmup Monday into Tuesday. Meanwhile, a potent storm system will be brewing to our west over the course of the day Tuesday. A deep upper trough will traverse the desert SW of the CONUS early in the day, with height falls overspreading the Southern Plains late Tuesday into Wednesday. This will help deepen a surface low along the lee of the Rockies that should be driven east once the parent upper trough ejects out of the Rockies. An attendant cold front should be driven east late Tuesday, moving through our forecast area overnight into Wednesday morning. There are some subtleties in the global guidance such as a pre-frontal trough/dryline and timing differences, but these will be further evaluated as the system draws closer. The area will remain under a strong capping inversion during the day Tuesday, making this a nocturnal event for most. Storms should develop along the front as it taps into the more moisture rich air over Western North Texas. We expect a rapid "zippering" of storms south into Central Texas shortly after convective initiation. The favored convective mode is linear, with a QLCS likely, given the strong forcing and near parallel to the boundary shear vectors. These types of systems favor a wind threat with a limited hail threat outside of the initial storms that develop along the boundary early in the event. 0-3 km shear values are projected to be out of the southwest between 30-40 kts, sufficient for spin-up tornadoes along the boundary. The line should move across the entire forecast area overnight and exit into East Texas Wednesday morning. As far as precipitation goes, this system should have more than ample moisture to support widespread precip along the front so we have nudged PoPs upward accordingly. The NAEFS and ECMWF mean ensemble guidance has integrated vapor transport (moisture flux) and PW exceeding the climo max for this time of the year, particularly across East Texas. These ingredients favor heavy rain within any storm, but given the ongoing drought and fast moving nature of the system the flash flood threat is low. Most everyone can expect to receive between 0.5-1" of rain, with lesser amounts across the SW parts of the forecast area...unfortunately where the drought is worst. Behind the front, cooler and drier air will settle into the region for a couple days with an elevated fire weather threat over western Central Texas Wednesday. Return flow should quickly reestablish itself by Friday as the surface high shifts east. Previous runs in the globals indicated another cold front moving through late in the week, but most members have backed off of this with the early morning runs. We have sided with the blended guidance, but this will likely either be too cool or too warm depending on if a front moves through or not. This should start to come into focus in the next couple days. Bonnette && .AVIATION... /Issued 116 PM CDT Sun Mar 27 2022/ /18z TAFs/ VFR/SKC will prevail through the rest of today with south winds generally of 10-15 kts. Modest moisture return will occur overnight which may send ragged MVFR stratus into North and Central Texas by 12z tomorrow morning. A brief period of cigs is possible at Waco, but this appears less likely at Metroplex airports where coverage would probably be FEW/SCT at most. -Stalley && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... Dallas-Ft. Worth 57 86 63 82 61 / 0 0 0 5 100 Waco 56 86 62 82 59 / 0 0 0 5 100 Paris 48 80 61 78 58 / 0 0 0 5 100 Denton 53 86 59 82 56 / 0 0 0 5 100 McKinney 54 84 62 80 59 / 0 0 0 5 100 Dallas 57 85 63 82 61 / 0 0 0 5 100 Terrell 54 82 62 80 58 / 0 0 0 5 100 Corsicana 57 84 63 82 61 / 0 0 0 5 100 Temple 55 86 62 82 59 / 0 0 0 5 100 Mineral Wells 54 90 60 85 56 / 0 0 0 5 100 && .FWD WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... Red Flag Warning until 8 PM CDT this evening for TXZ100>102- 115>117-129>133-141>145-156>160. &&
Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Fort Worth TX 154 PM CDT Sun Mar 27 2022 TXZ091>095-100>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-281215- 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- 154 PM CDT Sun Mar 27 2022 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for North and Central Texas. .DAY ONE...This Afternoon and Tonight. Elevated to critical fire danger is expected today across much of the region. The most volatile conditions will be along and west of the Interstate 35 corridor. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Monday through Saturday. Elevated fire weather conditions will continue west of I-35 on Monday. Thunderstorms are likely Tuesday night into Wednesday morning across much of the region. A few thunderstorms may be severe with hail and damaging winds. A tornado or two may also occur. .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 Crittenberg Complex burned 33,175 acres, nearly all of which was on Fort Hood training grounds. A small part burned outside the Fort Hood lines towards the City of Flat, but no damage occurred.
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