Wildfire, Routt
- When
- June 29, 2:00 PM MST to June 30, 6:00 PM MST
- Where
- Routt County, 6 mi S of Steamboat Spgs
- Reported by
- NEWSPAPER
- Coordinates
- 40.485, -106.991 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Wildfire in Colorado, June 29 to 30, 2001
Lightning sparked a wildfire which threatened several homes and consumed over 2 acres of aspen and lodgepole pine trees in the Walton Creek Drainage area. No structures were lost as a result of fire fighting efforts.
Where it happened
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The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 1
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
What happened
The episode as NWS GJT wrote it up.
Lightning sparked a wildfire which threatened several homes and consumed over 2 acres of aspen and lodgepole pine trees in the Walton Creek Drainage area. No structures were lost as a result of fire fighting efforts.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Grand Junction, CO wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 29, 12:37 PM MST, 1 hour 23 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 29, 12:37 PM MST, 1 hour 23 minutes before
WESTERN COLORADO & EASTERN UTAH AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND JUNCTION CO 137 PM MDT FRI JUN 29 2001 SYNOPSIS...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE EASTERN SAN JUAN MTNS UP ALONG THE DIVIDE...BEING DRIVEN BY STRONG SURFACE HEATING AND MODERATE LYR MOISTURE. ISOLD CONVECTIVE INITIATION FARTHER NORTH (OVER THE FLATTOPS) APPEARS TO BE FROM TRAILING SFC BNDRY CAUSING WEAK LOW LVL MOIST CONVG. IN ADDITION...WEAK MID LVL VORT LOBE OVER SW WYOMING HELPING TO SUSTAIN UPWARD MOTION/LIFT IN TSTMS. LOOK FOR CONVECTION TO LINGER THROUGH SUNSET...WITH SEVERAL STRONGER CELLS HOLDING OUT THROUGH MIDNIGHT. PRIMARY THREAT WILL BE SMALL HAIL IN THE MOUNTAINS AND OUTFLOW WINDS ASSOCIATED WITH DISSIPATING STORMS. SHORT-TERM FCSTS WILL HANDLE DETAIL. FORECAST...MAIN STORY WILL BE HOT WEATHER FOR CWFA THIS WEEKEND WITH SEVERAL RECORD HIGHS IN JEOPARDY. THERMAL RIDGE OVER THE DESERT SOUTHWEST WILL SURGE NORTHEAST...ALLOWING NEAR RECORD HEAT TO PREVAIL. KGJT 700MB TEMP AT 00Z/29 WAS OBSERVED AT 16.0C..(96F WAS THE MAX). BY SAT AFTN...H7 TEMP PROGGED TO APPROACH 19.0C PUSHING MAX HEATING TO AOA 100F OVER THE LOWER VALLEYS OF WRN CO AND ERN UT. UPR HIGH STRENGTHENS OVR THE 4 CORNERS SAT AFTN BLOCKING MOISTURE FROM RETURNING NORTH. THREAT OF CONVECTIVE DEVELOPMENT MINIMAL WITH LACK OF MID LVL MOISTURE. HOWEVER...GIVEN DEVELOPMENT SEEN TODAY...THERE REMAINS THE POTENTIAL FOR ISOLD CONVECTION ALONG THE DIVIDE OF SOUTH CENTRAL COLORADO. BY SUN...WILL WATCH MOISTURE RETURN FROM WEST AND NORTH ON BACKSIDE OF UPR HIGH. ISOLD AFTN CONVECTION AGAIN POSSIBLE...SHIFTING OVR THE HIGH TERRAIN OF NE UTAH AND NW COLO. EXTENDED...MODELS CONTINUE WITH GOOD CONSISTENCY BOTH BETWEEN MODELS AND RUN TO RUN. ALL ARE KEEPING PERSISTENT HIGH PRESSURE RIDGE ENTRENCHED OVER THE WESTERN U.S. THROUGH THE EXTENDED. THE RIDGE WILL ALLOW SOME MOISTURE TO CREEP OVER THE FORECAST AREA FROM THE SOUTH. SO WILL CONTINUE TO BROAD BRUSH THE FORECAST FOR SLIGHT CHANCE TO CHANCE FOR AFTERNOON AND EVENING CONVECTION. TEMPERATURES TO REMAIN ABOVE NORMALS WITH VARIABLE CLOUD COVER THE MODERATING FACTOR. HEFFERNAN NADLER.83 .GJT...NONE.
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
1 wildfire. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Wildfire
- A fire burning in wildland vegetation, with its acreage and damage where known.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Heat in Nevada, June 29, 2001
- Wildfire in California, June 29, 2001
- Tornado and Hail in Nebraska, June 29, 2001
- Wildfire in Alaska, June 29 to 30, 2001
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Oklahoma, June 29 to 30, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Maryland, June 29, 2001
- Hail in Texas, June 29, 2001
- Hail in Wyoming, June 29, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, June 29, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, June 29, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, June 29, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, June 29, 2001
More
Every storm in Colorado in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Colorado, June 2001
Sources
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5253184.