An elevated fire threat continues through Thursday and then Friday increases to a critical fire danger threat. Friday's winds will gust to near 45 mph-50 mph as a cold front moves into and through North Texas.

An elevated fire threat remains in place for Thursday, with that breeze and with very low relative humidity. That elevated fire threat turns critical on Friday as a low-pressure system moves through the Central Plains,

The NWS Fort Worth TX issued a fire weather watch at 2:10 p.m. on Wednesday valid for Friday between 7 a.m. and 7 p.m. The watch is for Wise, Denton, Collin, Parker, Tarrant, Dallas, Hood, Johnson, Montague,