Covering part of smokehouse creek and windy deuce near Pampa.
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Sounds like they did what they could around some of the structures per traffic they are loosing some, sounds like some defensive firing ops may have occurred
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Spot Forecast for Smokehouse Creek…Texas A&M Forest Service
National Weather Service Amarillo TX
915 AM CST Wed Feb 28 2024Forecast is based on forecast start time of 1000 CST on February 28.
If conditions become unrepresentative…contact the National Weather
Service.Please contact our office at (806) 335-1421, if you have questions
or concerns with this forecast..DISCUSSION…A weak surface high is expected to move across the
area this afternoon and evening. This high will create light but
variable surface winds that will slowly shift southerly by
tonight with speeds picking up to 10 to 15 mph. Chances for
precipitation returns Thursday morning with the large fire
perimeter currently having a 20 to 30% chance of seeing showers..REST OF TODAY…
Sky/weather…Sunny (15-25 percent). Areas of smoke.
Chance of pcpn…0 percent.
LAL…No Tstms.
Max temperature…Around 53.
Min humidity…15 percent.
Wind (20 ft)…Northwest winds 5 to 6 mph shifting to the
southwest 5 to 8 mph late in the afternoon.
Mixing height…4500 ft AGL.
Transport winds…Northwest 8 to 9 mph shifting to the south late
in the afternoon.
Smoke dispersal…Fair (14300 knot-ft) early in the morning
increasing to good (35500 knot-ft) in the
afternoon.
Haines Index…4 to 5 or low to moderate potential for large
plume dominated fire growth.
.TONIGHT…
Sky/weather…Partly cloudy (25-35 percent) then becoming
mostly cloudy (50-60 percent).
Chance of pcpn…0 percent.
LAL…No Tstms.
Min temperature…Around 31.
Max humidity…48 percent.
Wind (20 ft)…South winds 7 to 13 mph.
Mixing height…400 ft AGL.
Transport winds…South 12 to 17 mph.
Smoke dispersal…Good (36400 knot-ft) early in the evening
decreasing to poor (4200 knot-ft) late in the
night.
Haines Index…4 to 5 or low to moderate potential for large
plume dominated fire growth.
Smokehouse Creek Wildfire NWS Spot Forecast (weather.gov)
About 36 hours and it’s coming around again.
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850,000 acres 3% contained fire has slowed but still active, unknown amount of structures destroyed but thought to be very high
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Some isolated pockets of the fire are heading north sounded like additional resources were assigned to the incident this morning
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1,075,000 acres and 3% contained.
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Increase in fire activity on the south side of the fire it sounds like. Air resources assigned
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I wonder if the client interest is what is most important. Talk about a climber.
Makes for short but good reading.
Just curious how an attorneys office can determine the cause of a fire that is only 15% contained ?
I have no dog in this fight, just curious how this develops. In Texas the losing party has to pay the legal fees.
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RIP Captain Zeb Smith. Tangential to panhandle fires. No detailed information yet.
Fire chief in Texas city hit hard by wildfires dies while fighting a structure blaze
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Rest in Piece Chief, your watch is done and we will take it from here. 
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Super sad!
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