Thread🧵 | #KansasFires
While working live on wildfires/storms, I frequently discover mapping crossovers to my quake work.
Today I'm tracking yesterday's fires + March 2017/2020 fires & mapping with current/past #Kansas #earthquake swarms + faults. ⬇️👀
#kswx #ksfire #wildfire
12-15-2021~3:35pm #HutchinsonKS
*see powerline/pole example💨💥🔥
🔥'In the dry air behind the storms'~85 mph💨
12-16-2021 | #KSwx #KSfire
~365 acre #FourCountyFire | #NatomaKS
@KSForestService: "Conditions worsen tomorrow, (12/17), with elevated Fire Weather forecast."
#wildfire #firewx #kansasfires
12-16-2021 | #KSwx #KSfire
⬇️⚠️🚨 ⚡️⚡️⚡️ 🚨⚠️⬇️
March 2016 | #KSwx #KansasFires
#BarberCounty #AndersonCreekFire🔥
"400K acres: largest #wildfire in #Kansas history; winds caused the fire to grow rapidly, killed 600 cattle, burned 16 houses." *note the *HOT* burn comment👇
Wiki: bit.ly/3p3XCv2
March 2016 | #KSwx #KSfire
WATCH📹
#BarberCounty #AndersonCreekFire
"400K acres: largest #wildfire in #Kansas history; winds caused the fire to grow rapidly, killed 600 cattle, burned 16 houses."
March 2016 | #KSwx #KSfire
READ⬇️
#BarberCounty #AndersonCreekFire
"400K acres: largest #wildfire in #Kansas history; winds caused the fire to grow rapidly, killed 600 cattle, burned 16 houses." #KansasFires
Wiki: Anderson Creek Fire
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anderson_…
Wow! The POEM!😯
March 2016 | #KansasFires
"A few miles west of #MedicineLodge,
an odd rising of red dirt looms up, a showing of #ANCIENTWATERS carving the soft earth of #GYPSUM."
"A strange year of heavy rains, running all the way from spring into fall."
visitgyphills.com/highlights/kan…
March 2016 | #KansasFires
#AndersonCreekFire
"Red Hills has interesting geology with #sinkholes & 100+ #caves formed in the #gypsum ..."
➡️Gypsum is deposited by lake, sea water & #hotsprings, from #volcanic vapors
➡️Excellent photo gallery for geo-visuals
kansastravel.org/gypsumhills.htm
March 2017 | #KansasFires
#StarbuckFire🔥 | 715K acres
Long read + (44 min audio)
"Alerts had been going out for weeks that conditions in #Oklahoma, #Kansas and #Texas were perfect for #wildfires. On March 6, 2017, the prairie went up in flames." #wildfire
newyorker.com/magazine/2018/…
March 2017 | #KansasFires
#StarbuckFire🔥 | 715,000 acres
#BeaverCounty & #ClarkCounty
#KSwx #KSfire
➡️Clark County geo-visuals:
bit.ly/3q1xdNH
➡️#StJacobsWell: "known to never go dry"
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Basin…
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