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Guides — long-form chapters (18)

Drought Management in North Texas

Drought is the emergency that announces itself weeks in advance, gives you time to prepare, and then silently destroys everything you've worked for.…

Earthquake Hazard for the Lower-48 Prepper

The map of American earthquake hazard, plotted by the U.S. Geological Survey at five-year intervals, looks at first glance like a story about…

Fannin County Climate Profile: The Blackland Prairie Year

Off-grid homesteading is fundamentally a negotiation with climate. In Fannin County, North Texas, you are not fighting a hostile environment—but you…

Fire Weather: Red Flag Conditions and What to Do

The reason a North Texas grass fire can run twenty miles in a single afternoon, when the same fuel under different weather barely smolders, is that…

Flash Flooding and Flood Response in Fannin County

Flash flooding is the deadliest weather-related hazard in Texas, claiming more lives annually than hurricanes, tornadoes, or extreme heat. In Fannin…

Heat Emergency Procedures for Off-Grid North Texas Summer

North Texas summer without air conditioning, refrigeration, or electric fans is not romantic deprivation—it is a serious survival challenge. Heat…

Hurricane Preparedness for the Texas Homestead

A North Texas homestead is not on the coast. The Gulf is a four-hour drive south. The hurricane that ruins your week, your year, or your decade can…

Ice Storms and Extreme Cold in North Texas

On February 15, 2021, North Texas experienced an ice storm of catastrophic severity. Widespread power outages lasted 3-5 days across the region.…

Lightning Safety on a Homestead

Fannin County, North Texas, experiences 40-60 thunderstorm days per year. Most thunderstorms pass without incident, but some produce lightning that…

Post-Fire Debris Flows and Landslide Risk

A homestead survives a wildfire. The fire passes, the structures stand, the cattle are accounted for, the insurance adjuster has come and gone. The…

Reading NOAA Atlas 14: Precipitation Risk for the Texas Homestead

Somewhere in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's archives is a document that, if you read it carefully and let the numbers sink…

Reading the Sky: NWS Skywarn Spotter Methods for Preppers

The National Weather Service operates a network of 156 forecast offices across the United States, each with its own bank of radar, surface…

Severe Weather Field Reference: Tornadoes, Floods, Heat, Lightning, Ice, Hail

There are six categories of severe weather that kill more Texans every year than tropical cyclones do. Tornadoes. Flash floods. Heat. Lightning. Ice…

Tornado Preparedness Without Modern Warning Systems

Fannin County experiences 2–3 tornadoes per year across the broader NWS Fort Worth CWA, with significant tornadoes (EF3+) occurring roughly every…

Volcanic Ash Fall: A National Hazard Even for Inland Preppers

A homesteader in North Texas, sitting twelve hundred miles from the nearest active volcano, can be forgiven for treating volcanic hazards as someone…

Weather Observation Without Instruments

For more than a century, farmers, navigators, and rural communities relied on direct observation of their environment to predict weather. They had…

Wildfire Defense for the Texas Homestead

A house lost in a wildfire is almost never lost to a wall of flame. It is lost in the half hour after the front passes, when the smoke has drifted…

Wildland Fire Behavior: NWCG Doctrine for the Homestead

The National Wildfire Coordinating Group writes the books that the United States Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management, National Park Service,…

Manuals & references (87)

Convection Scheme in NCEP's Eta Model and Forecast Soundings (2002)

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FAA AC 00 45H AviationWeatherServices

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FAA AC 00 6B Aviation Weather

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Fault Gouge and the 1964 Great Alaska Earthquake (USGS Fact Sheet)

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Glossary of Wildland Fire Terminology

title: "Glossary of Wildland Fire Terminology"

Hurricane Awareness (Course K0311) - Unit 1: Hurricane Basics

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Hurricane Awareness (Course K0311) - Unit 2: NWS Products and Services

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Hurricane Awareness (Course K0311) - Unit 3: Forecast Uncertainty

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Hurricane Awareness (Course K0311) - Unit 4: Making Better Decisions

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Hurricane Awareness (Course L0310) - Unit 1: Hurricane Basics

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Hurricane Awareness (Course L0310) - Unit 2: NWS Products and Services

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Hurricane Awareness (Course L0310) - Unit 3: Forecast Uncertainty

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Hurricane Awareness (Course L0310) - Unit 4: Inland Preparation

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Hurricane Ida (2021): Tropical Cyclone Report

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Hurricane Irma (2017): Tropical Cyclone Report

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Hurricane Katrina (2005): Tropical Cyclone Report

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Hurricane Laura (2020): Tropical Cyclone Report

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Hurricane Sandy (2012): Tropical Cyclone Report

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JFSP FireScienceDigest Issue08

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JFSP FireScienceDigest Issue25

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JFSP ProgressReport 2014

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JFSP ProgressReport 2015 2016

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JFSP ProgressReport 2017

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NOAA Atlas 14, Section 5: Precipitation Frequency Data Server

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NOAA Atlas 14, Volume 1: Semiarid Southwest

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NOAA Atlas 14, Volume 3 (Sections 1-3): Puerto Rico and USVI

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NOAA Atlas 14, Volume 3: Puerto Rico and U.S. Virgin Islands

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NOAA NCEI USHurricaneStrikes 1950 2023

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NOAA NHC 2024 Atlantic Season Summary

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NOAA NHC Flying Into The Storm Recon

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NOAA NHC From Uncertainty to Warnings

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NOAA NHC HurricaneWarningService History Dunn

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NOAA NHC K0311 HurricaneAware StudentManual 2025

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NOAA NHC L0310 HurricaneAware StudentManual

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NOAA NHC Potential Tropical Cyclones EarlySignals

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NOAA NHC TCR Harvey 2017

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NOAA NHC TCR Helene 2024

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NOAA NHC TCR Ian 2022

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NOAA NHC TCR Matthew 2016

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NOAA NHC TCR Michael 2018

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NOAA NHC TCR Milton 2024

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NOAA NHC TR1987 38 Climatology

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NOAA NWS CloudChart

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NOAA NWS Directive 10 1807 StormSpotterProgram

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NOAA NWS SamAndOwlie WeatherStories

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NOAA NWS Skywarn FactSheet

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NOAA NWS SpotterGlossary June

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NOAA NWS WeatherSpotters FieldGuide

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NOAA Precipitation Frequency Data Server (Conference Paper)

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NWCG PMS205 Wildland Fire Glossary

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NWCG PMS437 Wildland Fire Weather

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Precipitation Frequency Data Server: Product Description

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Right-Moving Supercell Tornadogenesis: 29 May 2012 Oklahoma Case

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Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale

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Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale (Table)

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SPC Cohen StormClassification

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Storm Surge Watch/Warning: Media Tip Sheet

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Undiscovered Oil and Gas Resources, Heath Formation (USGS Fact Sheet 2017-3032)

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USFS ChartsForEstimatingFireBehavior

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USFS EvalWildfireRisk WUI

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USFS FEIS Assessment

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USFS FireControlNotes 1939 01

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USFS FireControlNotes v25

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USFS FireManagementToday 1960 07

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USFS FuelModels Anderson

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USFS GeospatialTechWildlandFire

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USFS ProtectingStructuresFromWildfire

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USFS ReducingWildfireThreatToHomes

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USFS StandardsForFireAviation 2001

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USFS StandardsForFireAviation 2002

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USFS WildfireProtection HomeownersDevelopers

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USFS WildlandFire NationalParkSystem

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USGS FS 2019 3061 ShakeAlert

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USGS FS2014 3001 USGSVolcanoes

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USGS FS2017 3084 NSHM2018

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USGS Hawaii Volcanic Hazard FS2017 3071

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USGS LandslideHandbook Circular1325

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USGS LomaPrieta Effects

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USGS NSHM 2018 OFR2018 1111

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USGS OF1993 322 LandslideTypesProcesses

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USGS OFR2017 1054 PostFireDebrisFlow

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USGS PuttingDownRoots BayArea

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USGS PuttingDownRoots Midwest

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USGS PuttingDownRoots PNW

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USGS PuttingDownRoots Utah

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Weather-Climate / Manuals — Source Log 2026-05-01 (Lane 3: Wildfire + Geohazards)

This log covers the Lane 3 ingest of USFS / NWCG / USGS / Joint Fire Science Program

Weather-Climate Manuals - Lane 2 NOAA SOURCE LOG

All items below are public-domain works produced by the U.S. federal government — NOAA, NHC, NWS, NCEI, SPC, and FAA. Federal works are PD by 17…

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