Wildfire, Montezuma
- When
- June 8, 4:00 PM MST to June 12, 8:00 PM MST
- Where
- Montezuma County, 3 mi SE of Mancos
- Reported by
- NEWSPAPER
- Coordinates
- 37.338, -108.597 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Wildfire in Colorado, June 8 to 12, 2001
A lightning sparked wildfire located on the east slope of Menefee Mountain burned 80 acres of ponderosa pine, pinon juniper and oak brush.
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.
A lightning sparked wildfire located on the east slope of Menefee Mountain burned 80 acres of ponderosa pine, pinon juniper and oak brush.
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 8, 1:31 PM MST, 2 hours 29 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 8, 1:31 PM MST, 2 hours 29 minutes before
WESTERN COLORADO & EASTERN UTAH AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND JUNCTION CO 231 PM MDT FRI JUN 8 2001 DIURNAL CONVECTION CONTS TO FIRE OVER THE HIGHER TERRAIN OF SW CO AS REMNANTS OF SUBTROPICAL MOISTURE AND WEAK WAVE CONT TO MOVE THROUGH. FURTHER WEST AND NORTH...CONVECTION BEING AIDED BY WEAK SHRTWV OVER UT...WHICH WILL BE SLIDING EAST OVER OUR AREA THIS EVENING. ACTIVITY ACRS THE CENTRAL AND NORTH HIGH-BASED...PRODUCING GUSTY WIND AND LITTLE RAINFALL. BETTER SHOT OF WETTING RAINS TO THE SOUTH OVER THE SAN JUANS WHERE BETTER MOISTURE IS IN PLACE. A FEW SPOTTER CALLS INDICATED WET ROADS AND MDT TO HEAVY RAIN FALLING OVER THE SAN JUANS. SRN CONVECTION EXPECTED TO DIMINISH THIS EVENING WITH LOSS OF HEATING...HOWEVER NORTHERN ACTIVITY MAY LINGER INTO THE LATE NIGHT HOURS WITH AID OF WEAK SHRTWV MOVING THROUGH. WL KEEP EVENING WORDING OUT OF THE FORECAST OVER THE NRN ZONES. RDG DRIES OUT SATURDAY AND SUNDAY...WITH BULK OF SHRTWV ENERGY LIFTING N OF THE FA. TREND OF ABOVE NORMAL TEMPERATURES WILL CONT...WITH BREEZY CONDS DEVELOPING EACH AFTERNOON. JDC EXTENDED: WILL SEE WARM DRY CONDITIONS CONTINUING INTO MON AS THE RIDGE FLATTENS AND MOVES EAST. EXPECT WINDS TO PICK UP AS GRADIENT TIGHTENS. BY TUE THE FORECAST BECOMES TRICKIER AS MODELS STILL DIVERGE ON THE SOLUTION FOR NEXT WEEKS TROUGH. THEY ARE COMING TOGETHER A BIT COMPARED TO PREVIOUS RUNS BUT STILL HAVE A WIDE SPREAD OF SOLUTIONS. MRF TRENDING TOWARDS THE MIDDLE GROUND WITH THE CANADIAN WAY AMPLIFIED AND SLOWEST...THE NOGAPS/EC FLATTER AND FASTER. WILL GO FOR A COMPROMISE WITH TROUGH PASSAGE ON TUE AND MOST ENERGY/MOISTURE NORTH OF UT/CO. MRF INDICATES A COUPLE OF WAVES IN THE FLOW THROUGH THU. ALSO THE SLOWER/STRONGER MODELS TIME TROUGH PASSAGE LATE WED/EARLY THU. WILL GO WITH COOLER TEMPS TUE/WED AND A SLIGHT CHANCE OVER THE NORTH...THEN DRY CONDITIONS WITH WARMING FOR THU/FRI AS HIGH PRESSURE BUILDS OVER THE REGION. MRF HINTING AT A SOUTHERLY MOISTURE FLOW OVER THE 4-CORNERS ON FRI...BUT WILL KEEP FORECAST DRY AT THIS TIME. HEFFERNAN .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
- Flash Flooding and Flooding in Louisiana, June 8 to 13, 2001
- Flash Flood in Florida, June 8, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Nebraska, June 8, 2001
- Flash Flood in Texas, June 8, 2001
- Lightning Strike in Wyoming, June 8, 2001
- Hail in Oregon, June 8, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Minnesota, June 8, 2001
- Flash Flooding in Kansas, June 8, 2001
- Flooding in Illinois, June 8 to 17, 2001
- Hail in Montana, June 8, 2001
- Hail in Wyoming, June 8, 2001
- Lightning Strike in Texas, June 8, 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: 5253178.