Document

Title

Weather and fire behavior factors related to the 1990 Dude Fire near Payson, Arizona
Document Type: Conference Proceedings
Author(s): David W. Goens; Patricia L. Andrews
Publication Year: 1998

Cataloging Information

Keyword(s):
  • Arizona
  • BEHAVE
  • complex terrain
  • drought
  • fatalities
  • fuel moisture
  • lightning
  • wind
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Record Maintained By:
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Record Last Modified: November 8, 2019
FRAMES Record Number: 11688

Description

June of 1990 will long be remembered as one of the hottest months in Arizona history. The temperature rose to 122 F (50C) in Phoenix and to 106 F (4 1 C) in Payson on June 26. These temperatures established a new daily record at Phoenix's Sky Harbor Airport, and equaled the June record temperature in Payson. Along with the record heat, an extended period of drought persisted. These conditions combined to produce critically high fire danger throughout Arizona, and especially in the Mogollon Rim country and the Tonto National Forest north of Payson, AZ.

[This publication is referenced in the "Synthesis of knowledge of extreme fire behavior: volume I for fire managers" (Werth et al 2011).]

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Citation:
Goens, D.W.; Andrews, P.L. 1998. Weather and fire behavior factors related to the 1990 Dude Fire near Payson, Arizona. In: Proceedings: 2nd symposium on fire and forest meteorology. Boston, MA: American Meteorological Society: 153-158.