1 wildfire, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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.
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 Pocatello, ID wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 29, 2:30 AM MST, 5 hours 30 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE POCATELLO IDAHO 330 AM MDT FRI JUL 29 2005 .DISCUSSION...SATELLITE IMAGERY INDICATES ABUNDANT MOISTURE ASSOCIATED WITH THE SOUTHWEST AREA MONSOON PATTERN MOVING NORTH THROUGH THE GREAT BASIN INTO IDAHO TODAY. NAM PRECIPITABLE WATER OVER ONE INCH IN THE SOUTH CENTRAL AND CARIBOU HIGHLANDS THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. OBSERVED UP STREAM PRECIPITATION HAS BEEN A TRACE TO A FEW HUNDREDS OF AND INCH WITH A COUPLE OF EXCEPTIONS NEAR LAS VEGAS. NAM MODEL QPF ALSO MOSTLY LESS THAN .10 INCH EXCEPT IN POCKETS. LOOKING MOSTLY AT MINOR DISTURBANCES EMBEDDED IN FLOW PATTERN THAT WOULD SUPPORT ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS. THERE IS H3 50KT SPEED SOUTHWEST MONTANA WITH RIGHT ENTRANCE REGION OVER PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST IDAHO THIS AFTERNOON AND THAT MAY HELP FOCUS THUNDER POTENTIAL. RED FLAG WARNING ISSUED FOR PORTIONS OF THE AREA BASED ON LIMITED QPF AND LIGHTNING POTENTIAL THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. FOUR CORNERS HIGH REMAINS IN PLACE WITH MONSOON MOISTURE ROTATING CLOCKWISE AROUND IT FOR SEVERAL DAYS. THEREFORE THREAT OF AFTERNOON THUNDERSTORMS WILL RE OCCUR AT LEAST THROUGH WEDNESDAY BEFORE THE WESTERLIES NUDGE MOISTURE OUT OF OUR AREA. THERE IS A STRONGER SHORT WAVE IN GFS MODEL THAT BEGINS AS EASTERLY WAVE UNDER THE RIDGE AND MOVES NORTH THROUGH THE GREAT BASIN ON SUNDAY WHICH COULD PROVIDE EXTRA FOCUS FOR AFTERNOON THUNDERSTORMS. RS && .AVIATION...VFR EXCEPT FOR AFTERNOON AND EVENING THUNDERSTORMS. SINCE MOST TAFS HAVE ISOLD LEVEL POPS...WILL LEAVE AT VICINITY THUNDERSTORMS AND FORGO TEMPO GROUPS. MESSICK && .PIH WATCHES/WARNING/ADVISORIES...RED FLAG WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST IDAHO. PLEASE REFER TO BOIRFWPIH FOR THE LATEST DETAILS. && WEATHER INFORMATION ON-LINE 24-HOURS A DAY (ALL LOWER-CASE LETTERS) WWW.WEATHER.GOV/POCATELLO
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE POCATELLO ID 600 AM MDT FRI JUL 29 2005 IDZ017>025-031-032-301200- LOST RIVER/PASHIMEROI-CACHE VALLEY/IDAHO PORTION- SOUTH CENTRAL HIGHLANDS-WASATCH MOUNTAINS/IDAHO PORTION- LOWER SNAKE RIVER PLAIN-SAWTOOTH MOUNTAINS-EASTERN MAGIC VALLEY- BIG AND LITTLE WOOD RIVER REGION-UPPER SNAKE RIVER PLAIN- CARIBOU HIGHLANDS-UPPER SNAKE HIGHLANDS- 600 AM MDT FRI JUL 29 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EASTERN IDAHO .DAY ONE... SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON UNDER A MOIST MONSOON FLOW PATTERN. A RED FLAG WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR THE CENTRAL IDAHO MOUNTAINS...UPPER AND LOWER SNAKE PLAIN....AND THE CARIBOU HIGHLANDS FOR THUNDERSTORM LIGHTNING WITH LITTLE PRECIPITATION FROM NOONTIME UNTIL 600 PM MDT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... THE PROBABILITY OF WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. MOISTURE ASSOCIATED WITH THE SOUTHWEST AREA MONSOON WILL CONTINUE OVER SOUTHEAST IDAHO SATURDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. THERE WILL BE A CONTINUING CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS EACH AFTERNOON. SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... WE ASK ALL TRAINED SPOTTERS TO REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER CONDITIONS. THIS WOULD INCLUDE ALL HAIL...WIND...HEAVY RAIN AND FLOODING REPORTS. THIS INFORMATION SHOULD BE CALLED INTO THE LOCAL NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE IN POCATELLO USING THE 1-800 SEVERE WEATHER HOTLINE... OR OTHER STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURES.
1 wildfire. Local standard time, as filed.
Wildfire destroyed 20 acres of a grain field in the Michaud Creek area of the Arbon Valley east of American Falls. Fire contained after an hour.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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