Wildfire in Washington, August 11 to 16, 2007

Name: Wildfire in Washington, August 11 to 16, 2007
Start: 2007-08-11T10:00
End: 2007-08-16T17:00
Location: Washington

August 11 to 16, 2007 · NWS OTX · 1 event in 1 county or zone

The Marshall Group Fire, centered four miles northeast of Cheney, was an equipment caused fire that burned 365 acres. One structure and one outbuilding was lost in the fire.

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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: None recorded
Crop damage: None recorded
Events: 1

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.

What happened

The episode as NWS OTX wrote it up.

The Marshall Group Fire, centered four miles northeast of Cheney, was an equipment caused fire that burned 365 acres. One structure and one outbuilding was lost in the fire.

What forecasters said that 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 Spokane, WA wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Aug 11, 10:00 AM PST, 0 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 11, 10:00 AM PST, 0 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPOKANE WA
1100 AM PDT SAT AUG 11 2007

.SYNOPSIS...A RIDGE WILL BUILD INTO THE REGION FROM SATURDAY INTO
EARLY NEXT WEEK. THIS RIDGE IS EXPECTED TO BREAK DOWN BY
THE MIDDLE OF NEXT WEEK WITH A THREAT OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS.

&&

.DISCUSSION...
HAVE ISSUED AN UPDATE FOR TODAY FOR LOCAL AREAS OF SMOKE ALONG LAKE
CHELAN. VISIBLE SATTELITE DATA SHOWS THIS SMOKE AS THE DOMKE LAKE
FIRE CONTINUES TO BURN. EXPECT THE SMOKE TO CONTINUE AT LEAST
THROUGH MONDAY WITH NO OVERALL CHANGE IN THE WX PATTERN AND DIURNAL
VARIATION UP AND DOWN THE LAKE. OTHERWISE CURRENT FORECAST IS ON
TRACK. JL

&&

.AVIATION...
VFR CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED THROUGH 18Z SUNDAY. CLEAR SKIES WILL
GIVE WAY TO A THICKENING CANOPY OF HIGH AND THEN MID CLOUDS AS THE
NEXT WX SYSTEM MOVES SE DOWN THE BC COAST TODAY. VFR CEILINGS AND
VSBY WILL BE COMMON. AREAS OF SMOKE WILL THIN AND MIX OUT SOME THIS
AFTERNOON AND THE REFORM OVER NIGHT IN VLYS FROM KBOI TO KLWS...
OVER LAKE CHELAN AND AROUND KELN. JL

&&

.PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS...
SPOKANE        82  54  80  52  85  56 /   0   0   0   0   0   0
COEUR DALENE  82  48  80  46  86  53 /   0   0   0   0   0   0
PULLMAN        81  46  79  44  85  47 /   0   0   0   0   0   0
LEWISTON       89  60  87  55  93  60 /   0   0   0   0   0   0
COLVILLE       84  46  79  51  86  46 /   0   0   0   0   0   0
SANDPOINT      81  48  77  50  84  49 /   0   0   0   0   0   0
KELLOGG        82  52  79  47  86  56 /   0   0   0   0   0   0
MOSES LAKE     86  55  82  54  87  56 /   0   0   0   0   0   0
WENATCHEE      84  60  78  58  88  62 /   0   0   0   0   0   0
OMAK           87  55  80  55  87  61 /   0   0  10   0   0   0

&&

.OTX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
ID...FIRE WEATHER WATCH SUNDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING FOR CENTRAL
     PANHANDLE MOUNTAINS...IDAHO PALOUSE...LEWIS AND SOUTHERN
     NEZ PERCE COUNTIES...LEWISTON AREA.
WA...NONE.
&&

Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 11, 5:05 AM PST, 4 hours 55 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPOKANE WA
605 AM PDT SAT AUG 11 2007

IDZ003-004-026-027-121315-
IDAHO PALOUSE-CENTRAL PANHANDLE MOUNTAINS-LEWISTON AREA-
LEWIS AND SOUTHERN NEZ PERCE COUNTIES-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...MOSCOW...ST. MARIES...KELLOGG...
PINEHURST...OSBURN...WALLACE...MULLAN...LEWISTON...KAMIAH...
CRAIGMONT...NEZPERCE...WINCHESTER
605 AM PDT SAT AUG 11 2007

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTH IDAHO
AND NORTH CENTRAL IDAHO.

THE FOLLOWING WATCHES WARNINGS OR ADVISORIES ARE CURRENTLY IN EFFECT
   FIRE WEATHER WATCH IN EFFECT FOR SUNDAY AFTERNOON AND
     EVENING FOR IDAHO PALOUSE...CENTRAL PANHANDLE
     MOUNTAINS...LEWISTON AREA...LEWIS AND SOUTHERN NEZ PERCE
     COUNTIES

PLEASE SEE THE FOLLOWING PRODUCTS FOR MORE INFORMATION.
   GTFRFWMSO  /WWUS85 KMSO/

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY

A DRY COLD FRONT WILL PASS THROUGH THE IDAHO PANHANDLE ON SUNDAY
BRINGING LOCALLY GUSTY WINDS. A FIRE WEATHER WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR
SOUTHERN PORTIONS OF THE IDAHO PANHANDLE FOR A COMBINATION OF
LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITIES AND GUSTY WINDS.

IDZ001-002-WAZ031>038-041>044-121315-
NORTHERN PANHANDLE-COEUR DALENE AREA-NORTHEAST BLUE MOUNTAINS-
LOWER GARFIELD AND ASOTIN COUNTIES-WASHINGTON PALOUSE-
MOSES LAKE AREA-UPPER COLUMBIA BASIN-SPOKANE AREA-
NORTHEAST MOUNTAINS-OKANOGAN HIGHLANDS-WENATCHEE AREA-
EAST SLOPES NORTHERN CASCADES-OKANOGAN VALLEY-WATERVILLE PLATEAU-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...SANDPOINT...RATHDRUM...BONNERS FERRY...
PRIEST RIVER...COEUR DALENE...POST FALLS...HAYDEN...ANATONE...
PEOLA...CLARKSTON...PULLMAN...MOSES LAKE...EPHRATA...OTHELLO...
QUINCY...RITZVILLE...COULEE DAM...ODESSA...ELECTRIC CITY...
WILBUR...GRAND COULEE...COULEE CITY...SPOKANE...COLVILLE...
DEER PARK...CHEWELAH...NEWPORT...KETTLE FALLS...REPUBLIC...
INCHELIUM...WENATCHEE...LEAVENWORTH...MAZAMA...TWISP...WINTHROP...
OMAK...OKANOGAN...BREWSTER...BRIDGEPORT...OROVILLE...WATERVILLE...
MANSFIELD
605 AM PDT SAT AUG 11 2007

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTH
IDAHO...CENTRAL WASHINGTON...EAST CENTRAL WASHINGTON...NORTH
CENTRAL WASHINGTON...NORTHEAST WASHINGTON AND SOUTHEAST
WASHINGTON.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

The radar

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Event by event

1 wildfire. Local standard time, as filed.

Wildfire, Spokane Area

When: August 11, 10:00 AM PST to August 16, 5:00 PM PST
Where: Spokane Area forecast zone
Reported by: Other Federal Agency
Coordinates: 47.599, -117.911 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

What these are

Wildfire: A fire burning in wildland vegetation, with its acreage and damage where known.

After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.

The same day elsewhere

Every storm in Washington in 2007 Every state in 2007 This day in weather history Warnings in Washington, August 2007

Sources

NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 53473.