A wildfire started just to the east of Atomic City on the 19th and burned 9,436 acres of sagebrush and timber. US Highway 20 from Idaho Falls to its junction with US HIghway 26 was shut down.
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The episode as NWS PIH wrote it up.
A wildfire started just to the east of Atomic City on the 19th and burned 9,436 acres of sagebrush and timber. US Highway 20 from Idaho Falls to its junction with US HIghway 26 was shut down. INL was forced to close its Materials and Fuels Complex for the 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 Pocatello, ID wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 19, 2:20 AM MST, 5 hours 40 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE POCATELLO ID 320 AM MDT THU JUL 19 2007 .SHORT TERM...TODAY THROUGH SATURDAY. DRY AND HOT SOUTHWEST FLOW WILL REMAIN OVER EASTERN IDAHO...WITH AFTERNOON TEMPERATURES REMAINING ABOVE NORMAL...AND VERY LITTLE CHANCE OF PRECIPITATION. AN ISOLATED THUNDERSTORM IS POSSIBLE ALONG THE WYOMING BORDER THIS AFTERNOON. HOT...DRY...AND GUSTY WINDS WILL CREATE CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS IN MANY LOCALES TODAY. SEE THE LATEST FIRE WEATHER DISCUSSION BELOW FOR THE DETAILS. CANTIN .LONG TERM...SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH THURSDAY. HIGH PRESSURE IS EXPECTED TO RETROGRADE WESTWARD OVER EASTERN IDAHO BY EARLY NEXT WEEK. THIS WILL ALLOW FOR AN INCREASE OF MID AND UPPER-LEVEL MOISTURE FROM THE SOUTH. THIS INCREASED MOISTURE...ALONG WITH CONTINUED HOT CONDITIONS...WILL LEAD TO THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY FOR MUCH OF NEXT WEEK. CANTIN && .AVIATION...ISOLD -TSRA ARE CLEARING OUT OF TWEB343 AS OF EARLY MORNING. WINDS HAVE ALSO BEEN GUSTY AT TIMES ACROSS EASTERN IDAHO...ESPECIALLY AS BOUNDARY WORKS EAST ACROSS AREA. GUSTS HAVE BEEN AROUND 22 KTS OR HIGHER FOR A BRIEF TIME WITH PASSAGE. FOR THE REST OF TODAY...ISOLATED STORMS ARE POSSIBLE ALONG THE CONT DIVIDE...AFFECTING TWEB 343 AND 344. WINDS WILL BE A PROBLEM AT ALL TAF SITES TODAY AND ALONG TWEB 340...344...345 WITH SOME GUSTS EXCEEDING 20 KTS AND POSSIBLY CLOSER TO 30 KTS THROUGH EVENING. KEYES && .FIRE WEATHER...WINDS HAVE STAYED UP TONIGHT ACROSS MANY AREAS OF EASTERN IDAHO. RH VALUES HAVE NOT RECOVERED MUCH AT ALL ESPECIALLY AT MID-SLOPE AND HIGHER AS WELL. TRACKING A BOUNDARY MOVING NORTHEAST ACROSS AREA WHICH AS OF 9Z WAS ALONG A LINE FROM INL TO KPIH TO JUST EAST OF MALTA. THAT HAS BEEN CREATING ERRATIC WIND GUSTS UP TO 30 MPH FOR A SHORT TIME BUT SHOULD BE NOT AFFECTING ANYONE BY 12Z. FOR THE REST OF TODAY RELATIVE HUMIDITIES WILL REMAIN LOW ALTHOUGH WE SHOULD A SLIGHTLY COOLER DAY TEMPERATURE WISE. COMBINE THIS WITH GUSTY WINDS AGAIN TODAY LEADS TO FIRE WEATHER CONCERNS OVER ALL OF EASTERN IDAHO. FIRE WEATHER WATCH FOR ZONES 405/406/407/412/413 FOR THIS AFTERNOON HAS BEEN UPGRADED TO RED FLAG WARNING. ZONES 409/410/411 WILL NEED TO BE WATCHED FOR ISSUANCE IF HUMIDITY/WIND GUST COMBINATION IS MEET. THINGS SHOULD QUIET DOWN A LITTLE TONIGHT BUT WITH SOME WIND...HUMIDITIES SHOULD SEE POOR RECOVERY ONCE AGAIN ESPECIALLY AT MID-SLOPE. THINGS ARE LEANING TOWARD ANOTHER BREEZY DAY FOR FRIDAY AND FIRE WEATHER CONCERNS AREA WIDE. DAY SHIFT WILL NEED TO LOOK AT THE POSSIBILITY OF FIRE WEATHER WATCH/RED FLAG WARNING FOR THAT PERIOD. FOR THE WEEKEND AND BEYOND...RIDGE REBUILDS BACK INTO EASTERN IDAHO...KEEPING US HOT AND DRY AND POSSIBLY BRING A RETURN OF SOME MOISTURE FOR THUNDERSTORM POSSIBILITIES. KEYES && .PIH WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... RED FLAG WARNING FROM NOON MDT TODAY THROUGH 9 PM MDT THIS EVENING FOR IDZ405-406-407-412-413. &&
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE POCATELLO ID 530 AM MDT THU JUL 19 2007 IDZ017>025-031-032-201130- EASTERN MAGIC VALLEY-SAWTOOTH MOUNTAINS-UPPER SNAKE HIGHLANDS- UPPER SNAKE RIVER PLAIN-LOWER SNAKE RIVER PLAIN- SOUTH CENTRAL HIGHLANDS-CARIBOU HIGHLANDS- CACHE VALLEY/IDAHO PORTION-WASATCH MOUNTAINS/IDAHO PORTION- BIG AND LITTLE WOOD RIVER REGION-LOST RIVER/PAHSIMEROI- 530 AM MDT THU JUL 19 2007 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EASTERN IDAHO. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT GUSTY WINDS ARE EXPECTED ONCE AGAIN THIS AFTERNOON ACROSS EASTERN IDAHO. SPEEDS EXCEEDING 25 MPH IN SOME AREAS...ALONG WITH AFTERNOON RELATIVE HUMIDITIES WILL LEAD TO DANGEROUS FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS AND ERRATIC FIRE BEHAVIOR. A RED FLAG WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR THE CENTRAL IDAHO MOUNTAINS AND SOUTHERN/CARIBOU HIGHLANDS OF EASTERN IDAHO FOR THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE ALONG THE WYOMING/IDAHO BORDERS MAINLY FOR THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING. THE WEATHER SHOULD BEGIN TO DIE DOWN AFTER SUNSET. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY HIGH PRESSURE WILL BEGIN TO REBUILD ACROSS EASTERN IDAHO...KEEPING THE AREA UNDER HOT AND MOSTLY DRY CONDITIONS. FRIDAY APPEARS MIGHT BE ANOTHER DAY FOR FIRE WEATHER CONCERNS TO DUE TO GUSTY AFTERNOON WINDS AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITIES. HEADING INTO THE WEEKEND AND NEXT WEEK...MOISTURE WILL BEGIN TO MOVE BACK INTO EASTERN IDAHO FROM THE SOUTH. THIS WILL BRING THE POSSIBILITY OF THUNDERSTORMS BACK INTO THE FORECAST. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... WE ASK TRAINED SPOTTERS AND CITIZENS TO REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER CONDITIONS WHEN IT IS SAFE TO DO SO. THESE CONDITIONS MAY INCLUDE HAIL...TORNADOES...STRONG WIND...DUST STORMS...SNOWFALL... EXTREME COLD TEMPERATURES...FREEZING RAIN OR HEAVY RAIN...DENSE FOG...AND FLOODING OR ICE JAMS. INFORMATION ABOUT THESE HAZARDOUS CONDITIONS SHOULD BE CALLED INTO YOUR NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE IN POCATELLO USING THE 1-800 SEVERE WEATHER HOTLINE...OR 208-233-0834.
1 wildfire. Local standard time, as filed.
A wildfire started just to the east of Atomic City on the 19th and burned 9,436 acres of sagebrush and timber. US Highway 20 from Idaho Falls to its junction with US Highway 26 was shut down. INL was forced to close its Materials and Fuels Complex for the day.
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