The La Barranca Fire started Thursday, June 1, 2006 at around 1:50 PM about 3 miles east of the Village of Oak Creek. The fire was human caused by a fence company that was grinding on a metal fence post on private property.
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The episode as NWS FGZ wrote it up.
The La Barranca Fire started Thursday, June 1, 2006 at around 1:50 PM about 3 miles east of the Village of Oak Creek. The fire was human caused by a fence company that was grinding on a metal fence post on private property. The fire burned 836 acres through grass, brush, and pinyon-juniper woodland. The estimated fire fighting cost was $1,200,000. The damage included: 1 primary residence lost, 1 partially-damaged residence, 1 guest house/shop destroyed, 3 outbuildings destroyed. There were 158 structures saved.
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 Flagstaff, AZ wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 1, 2:30 PM MST, 0 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FLAGSTAFF AZ 230 PM MST THU JUN 1 2006 .SYNOPSIS...A STRONG AREA OF HIGH PRESSURE WILL REMAIN OVER THE FOUR CORNERS REGION INTO NEXT WEEK. THIS WILL BRING SOME OF THE WARMEST TEMPERATURES OF THE SEASON TO NORTHERN ARIZONA. MOISTURE FROM NEW MEXICO WILL MOVE INTO FAR EASTERN ARIZONA OVER THE NEXT FEW DAYS...LEADING TO A SLIGHT CHANCE OF AFTERNOON THUNDERSTORMS. DRY CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED ELSEWHERE. && .DISCUSSION...A RIDGE IN THE MID TO UPPER LEVELS HAS BECOME ESTABLISHED OVER THE FOUR CORNERS REGION THIS AFTERNOON. BOTH THE GFS AND EUROPEAN MODELS SHOW THE RIDGE REMAINING NEARLY STATIONARY OVER THE NEXT WEEK. AT THE SAME TIME...IN THE MID TO LOWER LEVELS THERE WILL BE AN ANTICYCLONIC CIRCULATION LOCATED OVER NORTHWEST MEXICO. THE MAIN INFLUENCE OF THIS PATTERN WILL BE TO SLOWLY MOVE MOISTURE ACROSS ARIZONA. FOR FRIDAY...MOISTURE WILL CONTINUE TO SEEP IN FROM NEW MEXICO AND MEXICO WITH THE MAIN THUNDERSTORM THREAT REMAINING CONFINED TO THE WHITE MOUNTAINS...EASTERN MOGOLLON RIM AND CHUSKA MOUNTAINS. ANY STORMS WILL BE HIGH BASED AND DRY WITH GUSTY WINDS AND A STRAY CLOUD-TO-GROUND LIGHTNING STRIKE THE MAIN THREAT. IN ADDITION...EXPECT THE WARMEST DAYTIME TEMPERATURES OF THE SEASON ACROSS ALL OF NORTHERN ARIZONA UNDER THIS PATTERN. FOR SATURDAY AND INTO NEXT WEEK MOISTURE WILL CONTINUE TO CREEP ACROSS NORTHERN ARIZONA FROM SOUTHEAST TO NORTHWEST WITH THE THREAT OF THUNDERSTORMS GRADUALLY SPREADING ACROSS NORTHERN ARIZONA. IT WILL GENERALLY REMAIN TOO DRY FOR ANYTHING OTHER THAN HIGH BASED THUNDERSTORMS. HOWEVER...OVER THE WHITE MOUNTAINS ENOUGH MOISTURE COULD MOVE IN FOR THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DECENT RAIN SHOWERS. IS THIS PATTERN A HARBINGER OF AN EARLY START TO THE MONSOON? WE WILL SEE. MCCOLLUM && .AVIATION...FOR THE 00Z PACKAGE...TAFS AND TWEBS ADEQUATELY CONVEY EXPECTED WEATHER. AVIATION DISCUSSION NOT UPDATED FOR AMENDMENTS. DL && .FGZ WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...NONE. &&
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 wildfire. Local standard time, as filed.
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