A wind driven wildfire in hot and dry conditions swept across three homes in the community of Mesa.
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A wind driven wildfire in hot and dry conditions swept across three homes in the community of Mesa.
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 21, 1:35 PM MST, 5 hours 43 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND JUNCTION CO 235 PM MDT THU JUN 21 2007 .SHORT TERM (TONIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY)... REST OF TODAY AND TONIGHT... SHORT WAVE DISTURBANCE EMBEDDED IN THE SOUTHWEST FLOW ALOFT SHOULD EXIT OUR CWA BY MIDNIGHT...CAUSING ANY CONVECTION WHICH LINGERS PAST SUNSET TO DIE OFF QUICKLY. THIS SHORT WAVE FEATURE HAS PRODUCED HIGH BASED THUNDERSTORMS. FORTUNATELY...LIGHTNING HAS GENERALLY BEEN ISOLATED. HAS NOT BEEN AS HOT TODAY IN MOST OF OUR AREA DUE TO THE CLOUD COVER WHICH SLOWED DOWN THE WARMING PROCESS. CONVECTION TODAY OVER WESTERN SAN JUAN MOUNTAINS APPEARS TO BE MORE RELATED TO DAYTIME HEATING AND SHOULD WEAKEN RAPIDLY AROUND SUNSET. WSR88D INDICATED PRECIPITATION AMOUNTS OVER THE WESTERN SAN JUANS APPROACHING A THIRD OF AN INCH AS OF EARLY THIS AFTERNOON...WITH AIRMASS OVER THAT AREA EVIDENTLY INFLUENCED FROM FLOW OF HIGHER RH AIR FROM SOUTH AS INDICATED BY AZTEC WIND PROFILER THAT HAS CONTINUED TO MEASURE PREDOMINANT SOUTHERLY WINDS. FRIDAY AND SATURDAY... SCREAMING MESSAGE FOR FRIDAY AND SATURDAY WILL BE THE CONTINUED HOT TEMPERATURES FOR MOST OF OUR AREA. MODELS INDICATE H7 TEMPS OF 17- 18C ON FRIDAY TO WARM TO 19-20C ON SATURDAY...PERHAPS MAKING SATURDAY THE HOTTEST DAY OF THE YEAR SO FAR FOR MANY LOCATIONS...AND AT LEAST AS HOT AS IT WAS YESTERDAY. WEAK DIURNAL CONVECTION WORKING ON LINGERING H5 LEVEL MOISTURE... EXPECTED OVER THE MOUNTAINS ON FRIDAY...MAINLY ALONG CONTINENTAL DIVIDE. MODELS INDICATE ANOTHER SHORTWAVE IN THE FLOW MOVING OUR DIRECTION AND TO 4 CORNERS AREA BY MIDDAY FRIDAY. THOUGH IT SHOULD BE QUITE WEAK...THIS FEATURE MAY HELP ENHANCE CONVECTION OVER MOUNTAINS IN SOUTHERN PART OF OUR CWA...MAINLY SAN JUAN MOUNTAINS. EVEN THEN... NOT EXPECTING NEARLY AS MUCH CONVECTION OVER THE SAN JUANS AS WHAT HAS OCCURRED TODAY. UPPER HIGH STRENGTHENS A LITTLE OVER OUR AREA ON SATURDAY AS WEST COAST TROUGH EDGES EASTWARD. SUNNY SKIES SHOULD PREVAIL OVER OUR AREA ON SATURDAY...WITH VERY MINIMAL THREAT OF CONVECTION EXPECTED. IF ANY CONVECTION DOES DEVELOP...IT SHOULD MAINLY BE CONFINED TO AREAS ALONG CONTINENTAL DIVIDE AND SAN JUANS. .LONG TERM...SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH THURSDAY... NOTHING MUCH TO ADD TO PREVIOUS DISCUSSIONS AS MODEL RUN-TO-RUN CONSISTENCY CONTINUES TO BE GOOD. NO BIG CHANGES SEEN AS RIDGE AXIS REMAINS SHARPLY TILTED FROM SW TO NE AS STORM ENERGY MOVES INTO THE PACIFIC NW. THIS WILL BRING CONTINUED HOT AND DRY CONDITIONS THROUGH THE WEEKEND. THE STRONGEST UPPER WAVE WILL MOVE THROUGH THE AREA LATE FRIDAY INTO SATURDAY. ANY MOISTURE TO WORK WITH HOWEVER WILL BE ABOVE 400 MB OR SO. THIS COULD RESULT IN SOME AFTERNOON MOUNTAIN HIGH BASED CONVECTION WITH VIRGA. LACK OF WETTING RAIN...LIGHTNING... AND GUSTY STORM-RELATED WINDS COULD PROVE TO BE A FIRE CONCERN. 700 MB TEMPERATURES REMAIN DIURNALLY IN THE 15C TO 20C RANGE THROUGHOUT THE PERIOD...WITH THE WARMEST CONDITIONS OVER THE UPCOMING WEEKEND. HOT AND DRY CONDITIONS CAN BE ANTICIPATED EVERYWHERE...WITH TRIPLE DIGIT AFTERNOON HIGH TEMPERATURES LIKELY FOR THE GRAND VALLEY AND SOUTHEAST UTAH. LITTLE TO NO RELIEF THROUGHOUT THIS PERIOD. ANY CHANGES LOOK TO BEGIN BEYOND THE FRAME OF THIS FORECAST PERIOD. && .AVIATION... VFR CONDITIONS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH FRIDAY...WITH ISOLATED TO WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS MAINLY OVER THE MOUNTAINS THIS EVENING...AND THEN ISOLATED AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE MOUNTAINS ON FRIDAY. LOCAL IFR CONDITIONS DUE TO SMOKE FROM WILDFIRES STILL POSSIBLE MAINLY 08Z-14Z TONIGHT AND EARLY FRIDAY IN THE KRIL...KEGE...AND KASE AREAS && .GJT WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... .CO...NONE. .UT...NONE. SHORT TERM...JRP LONG TERM...BA AVIATION...JRP
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND JUNCTION CO 600 AM MDT THU JUN 21 2007 COZ001>014-017>023-UTZ022>025-027>029-221200- ANIMAS RIVER BASIN-ARCHES/GRAND FLAT-CANYONLANDS/NATURAL BRIDGES- CENTRAL COLORADO RIVER BASIN- CENTRAL GUNNISON AND UNCOMPAHGRE RIVER BASIN- CENTRAL YAMPA RIVER BASIN-DEBEQUE TO SILT CORRIDOR- EASTERN UINTA BASIN-EASTERN UINTA MOUNTAINS- ELKHEAD AND PARK MOUNTAINS-FLAT TOPS- FOUR CORNERS/UPPER DOLORES RIVER- GORE AND ELK MOUNTAINS/CENTRAL MOUNTAINS-GRAND AND BATTLEMENT MESAS- GRAND VALLEY-LA SAL AND ABAJO MOUNTAINS-LOWER YAMPA RIVER BASIN- NORTHWEST SAN JUAN MOUNTAINS-PARADOX VALLEY/LOWER DOLORES RIVER- ROAN AND TAVAPUTS PLATEAUS-SAN JUAN RIVER BASIN-SOUTHEAST UTAH- SOUTHWEST SAN JUAN MOUNTAINS-TAVAPUTS PLATEAU- UNCOMPAHGRE PLATEAU AND DALLAS DIVIDE-UPPER GUNNISON RIVER VALLEY- UPPER YAMPA RIVER BASIN-WEST ELK AND SAWATCH MOUNTAINS- 600 AM MDT THU JUN 21 2007 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WESTERN COLORADO AND EASTERN UTAH. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WILL FORM OVER THE HIGH COUNTRY OF WESTERN COLORADO LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING. OTHERWISE NO SIGNIFICANT WEATHER IS EXPECTED TODAY AND TONIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS MAY EXIST THIS WEEKEND AND MONDAY AS AFTERNOON WINDS INCREASE. HOT DAYTIME TEMPERATURES WITH LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE EXTENDED PERIOD. ON FRIDAY THERE WILL BE A SLIGHT CHANCE OF AFTERNOON THUNDERSTORMS NEAR THE CONTINENTAL DIVIDE. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED TODAY OR TONIGHT.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 wildfire. Local standard time, as filed.
A fire which started near the town of Mesa became wind driven in hot and dry conditions and destroyed three houses. Flames were reported to be 50 feet high with the blaze. About 30 acres were charred by the fire.
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