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Eventdex · Wildfire

STARR

152705

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event_typeWildfire
ncei_event_id152,705
episode_id25,549
begin_utc2009-01-20T21:30:00+00:00
end_utc2009-01-21T03:00:00+00:00
stateTEXAS
cz_typeZ
cz_nameSTARR
deaths_direct0
deaths_indirect0
injuries_direct0
injuries_indirect0
wfo_sourceOther Federal Agency
episode_narrativeA weak front brought dry air and gusty winds across the Rio Grande Valley during the afternoon of January 19th, 2009. Temperatures, aided by downsloping, northwest winds, rose into the mid and upper 80s, while humidity plummeted to between 10 and 15 percent. Accompanied by 20 foot northwest winds of 15 to 20 mph with gusts to 25 mph, the threat for rapid to explosive wild fire growth was realized at the Moorefield Air Base west of Edinburg.||The following day, relatively mild temperatures, humidity nearing 15 percent, and occasionally gusty north winds maintained a considerable threat for rapid growth of any wild fires, which was realized in eastern Starr County near Rincon.
event_narrativeA wild fire, known as the Bentsen Fire, developed during the mid afternoon of the 20th and quickly spread to 1280 acres near Rincon, TX, destroying a hay baler but otherwise wiping out grasslands before being contained and controlled by US Fish and Wildlife personnel and local fire departments during the evening.
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