A prescribed fire originally lit on April 9th burned out of control on April 10th, destroying four summer cabins/homes and a pick-up camper in the Homestead Park #2 subdivision located eight miles southwest of Lander. The escaped fire burned 188 acres, of which 123 were on the Shoshone National Forest, five on BLM land, and 60 on private land.
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The episode as NWS RIW wrote it up.
A prescribed fire originally lit on April 9th burned out of control on April 10th, destroying four summer cabins/homes and a pick-up camper in the Homestead Park #2 subdivision located eight miles southwest of Lander. The escaped fire burned 188 acres, of which 123 were on the Shoshone National Forest, five on BLM land, and 60 on private land. The estimated cost of fighting the fire was 333 thousand dollars. Combined with the estimated value of the four structures, the total cost of the wildfire was estimated at one million dollars.
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 Riverton, WY wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Apr 10, 2:07 AM MST, 6 hours 53 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RIVERTON WY 307 AM MDT MON APR 10 2006 .SHORT TERM...TODAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY NIGHT... SEVERAL PACIFIC TROUGH SYSTEMS WILL AFFECT WESTERN AND CENTRAL WYOMING THROUGH MUCH OF THIS SHORT TERM PERIOD. A SHORTWAVE FROM THE FIRST TROUGH WILL MOVE FROM SOUTHWEST TO NORTHEAST OVER OUR AREA THIS MORNING. THAT WILL TRIGGER NUMEROUS SNOW SHOWERS OVER THE WESTERN MOUNTAINS THIS MORNING...WITH 24 HOURS ACCUMULATIONS OF AN INCH OR TWO. SCATTERED MIXED RAIN AND SNOW SHOWERS ARE EXPECTED IN THE WESTERN BASINS AND VALLEYS THIS MORNING. THE SCATTERED SHOWER ACTIVITY SPREADS EAST OF THE DIVIDE THIS AFTERNOON...AND INCREASING LIFT OF THE MOIST AND INCREASINGLY UNSTABLE AIRMASS WILL CAUSE ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS OVER MUCH OF WESTERN AND CENTRAL WYOMING. THE THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE SMALL HAIL AND BRIEF GUSTY WINDS BEFORE DISSIPATING OVERNIGHT. ALSO EXPECT BREEZY SOUTHWEST WINDS TO DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON IN THE WIND CORRIDOR FROM SOUTHWEST WYOMING TO THE CASPER AREA...AHEAD OF A COLD FRONT WHICH WILL MOVE FROM NORTH TO SOUTH ACROSS CENTRAL AND EASTERN WYOMING. THE SHOWER ACTIVITY DECREASES SOMEWHAT OVERNIGHT AS THE SHORTWAVE CONTINUES ALONG A NORTHEAST PATH INTO THE DAKOTAS. BY TUESDAY MORNING THE PREVIOUSLY MENTIONED PACIFIC TROUGH WILL HAVE WEAKENED AND SHOULD BE ORIENTED FROM SOUTH CENTRAL COLORADO NORTHWEST INTO THE SALT LAKE CITY AREA. THAT WILL MAINTAIN THE CYCLE OF SCATTERED OVERNIGHT AND MORNING SNOW SHOWERS OVER OUR WESTERN AND CENTRAL MOUNTAINS...PLUS AFTERNOON RAIN SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY. WEAK UPPER LEVEL RIDGING DEVELOPS TUESDAY NIGHT WITH ONLY ISOLATED LIGHT SNOW SHOWERS REMAINING OVER THE FAR WESTERN MOUNTAINS. THE RIDGE CONTINUES TO BUILD WEDNESDAY ACROSS THE DESERT SOUTHWEST AND THE GREAT BASIN... AHEAD OF YET ANOTHER PACIFIC TROUGH WHICH DIGS OFF THE WEST COAST. THE RESULTANT WESTERLY FLOW ALOFT WILL CARRY ENOUGH MID LEVEL MOISTURE TO CAUSE LIGHT MIXED RAIN AND SNOW SHOWERS OVER OUR WESTERN MOUNTAINS WEDNESDAY...AND OVERNIGHT SNOW SHOWERS. .LONG TERM...THURSDAY THROUGH MONDAY... TIMING IS ABOUT 12 HOURS SLOWER WITH SRN CA UPPER LOW BUT OTHERWISE FORECAST REMAINS ON TRACK. TEMPERATURES SHOULD WARM QUITE NICELY THURSDAY INTO FRIDAY AHEAD OF THIS UPPER LOW. BUMPED TEMPERATURES UP TO AROUND 70 IN OUR ERN ZONES WHICH COULD EVEN BE RATHER CONSERVATIVE FOR FRIDAY ALONG WITH SOME BREEZES. UPPER LOW STILL FORECAST THEN TO TRACK RIGHT ACROSS THE STATE ON SATURDAY WITH SHOWERS AND HIGH MOUNTAIN SNOW ABOVE 8000 TO 9000 FEET. MAY HAVE TO ADD THUNDERSTORMS EVENTUALLY TO THE FORECAST BUT WILL LOOK AT THIS AGAIN TONIGHT. WINDS SHOULD BE RATHER STRONG ALSO ON SATURDAY WITH WIDESPREAD WINDY AREAS...POSSIBLY APPROACHING HIGH WIND AT TIMES ESPECIALLY WHEN SHOWERS ARE ADDED IN TO THE MIX. QUICK RECOVERY SUNDAY AHEAD OF MUCH COLDER ERN PACIFIC TROUGH. GFS HAS SLOWED THIS SYSTEM CLOSER TO ECMWF FROM LAST NIGHT. COLDEST AIR MAY NOT BE USHERED IN UNTIL BEYOND THIS PERIOD. FOR NOW...HAVE KEPT IDEA OF SCATTERED SHOWERS OVER OUR WEST WITH HIGH MOUNTAIN SNOW WITH SHOWERS SPREADING EAST LATE IN THE DAY OR MONDAY NIGHT. WILL DEAL MORE WITH THIS SYSTEM TONIGHT. && .RIW WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...NONE. && SHORT TERM...CF LONG TERM...SKRBAC
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RIVERTON WY 500 AM MDT MON APR 10 2006 WYZ001>020-022>030-111100- ABSAROKA MOUNTAINS-BIGHORN MOUNTAINS SOUTHEAST- BIGHORN MOUNTAINS WEST-CASPER MOUNTAIN-CODY FOOTHILLS- EAST SWEETWATER COUNTY-FLAMING GORGE- GREEN MOUNTAINS AND RATTLESNAKE RANGE-JACKSON HOLE-LANDER FOOTHILLS- NATRONA COUNTY LOWER ELEVATIONS-NORTH BIG HORN BASIN- NORTHEAST JOHNSON COUNTY-OWL CREEK AND BRIDGER MOUNTAINS- ROCK SPRINGS AND GREEN RIVER-SALT RIVER AND WYOMING RANGES- SOUTH LINCOLN COUNTY-SOUTHEAST BIG HORN BASIN- SOUTHEAST JOHNSON COUNTY-SOUTHWEST BIG HORN BASIN-STAR VALLEY- TETON AND GROS VENTRE MOUNTAINS-UPPER GREEN RIVER BASIN- UPPER GREEN RIVER BASIN FOOTHILLS-UPPER WIND RIVER BASIN- WIND RIVER BASIN-WIND RIVER MOUNTAINS EAST-WIND RIVER MOUNTAINS WEST- YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK- 500 AM MDT MON APR 10 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WESTERN AND CENTRAL WYOMING. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT A STORM SYSTEM MOVING ACROSS WESTERN AND CENTRAL WYOMING TODAY WILL CAUSE SNOW SHOWERS OVER THE WESTERN MOUNTAINS...WHERE ACCUMULATIONS OF 1 TO 2 INCHES ARE POSSIBLE. THIS SYSTEM WILL SPREAD ACROSS MOST OF WESTERN AND CENTRAL WYOMING THIS AFTERNOON ACCOMPANIED BY SCATTERED RAIN SHOWERS...ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS...AND GUSTY SURFACE WINDS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY A NEW STORM SYSTEM IS EXPECTED TO TRACK NORTHEAST TOWARDS WYOMING FRIDAY NIGHT INTO SATURDAY. SHOWERS AND HIGH MOUNTAIN SNOW ARE EXPECTED ACROSS MUCH OF THE AREA...ESPECIALLY FRIDAY NIGHT INTO SATURDAY. SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED TODAY AND TONIGHT. TRIW
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 wildfire. Local standard time, as filed.
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