Fire Weather Watch — Hardin + 2 more areasFire Weather Watch — Hardin + 2 more areas
Completed official-source record with preserved facts and meaningful-change history. The final record does not infer impacts the source did not report.
What the preserved official data shows
This Fire Weather Watch left the National Weather Service active-alert feed after being preserved by Texas Hazard Watch. The official record named Hardin; Southern Jasper; Southern Newton. Completion confirms the alert is no longer in the active feed; it does not by itself establish damage or other impacts.
- First collected
- Oct 15, 2026 · 12:11 PM CDT
- Record completed
- Oct 16, 2026 · 12:01 AM CDT
- Monitored duration
- 11 hours, 50 minutes
- Official severity
- Severe
- Named areas
- Hardin; Southern Jasper; Southern Newton
- Official expiration
- Oct 16, 2026 · 12:15 AM CDT
- Final monitor status
- Left the active NWS alert feed
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Record facts
- Event
- Fire Weather Watch
- Affected Texas areas
- Hardin; Southern Jasper; Southern Newton
- Effective
- 2026-10-15T12:07:00-05:00
- Expires
- 2026-10-16T00:15:00-05:00
- Issuing authority
- NWS Lake Charles LA
Completed
Official record ended or left the source’s active window.
Instructions preserved with the record
A Fire Weather Watch means that critical fire weather conditions
are forecast to occur. Listen for later forecasts and possible
Red Flag Warnings.
Latest official-source information
...FIRE WEATHER WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS AND CENTRAL
AND SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA FRIDAY...
.Breezy and dry conditions due to a frontal passage will combine
with very dry fuels and produce red flag conditions across
portions of central and southwest Louisiana and southeast Texas
through Friday afternoon. A Fire Weather Watch is in place for all
of southeast Texas and southwest and central Louisiana on
Saturday.
The National Weather Service in Lake Charles has issued a Fire
Weather Watch for winds and low relative humidity, which is in
effect from Saturday morning through Saturday evening. The Fire
Weather Watch has been cancelled.
* AFFECTED AREA...Fire Weather Zone 031 Allen, Fire Weather Zone
032 Evangeline, Fire Weather Zone 033 St. Landry, Fire Weather
Zone 044 Lafayette, Fire Weather Zone 045 Upper St. Martin,
Fire Weather Zone 141 Northern Calcasieu, Fire Weather Zone
142 Northern Jefferson Davis, Fire Weather Zone 143 Northern
Acadia, Fire Weather Zone 201 Hardin, Fire Weather Zone 261
Southern Jasper and Fire Weather Zone 262 Southern Newton.
* TIMING...From Saturday morning through Saturday evening.
* WINDS...North 10 to 20 mph with gusts up to 35 mph.
* RELATIVE HUMIDITY...As low as 31 percent.
* TEMPERATURES...Up to 86.
* LIGHTNING...
* IMPACTS...Any fire that develops will catch and spread
quickly. Outdoor burning is not recommended.
Meaningful official changes
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- Record completedOfficial record ended or left the source’s active window.
- First recordedNew official record added to the monitor.
Original source
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