An 800 acre wildfire began August 10th in the Cedar Creek area 15 miles east of Blackfoot. The fire got to within a half mile of the Aldridge Post Office and School House on Blackfoot River Road but no damage was caused by the fire.
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The episode as NWS PIH wrote it up.
An 800 acre wildfire began August 10th in the Cedar Creek area 15 miles east of Blackfoot. The fire got to within a half mile of the Aldridge Post Office and School House on Blackfoot River Road but no damage was caused by the fire. It was contained on August 13th.
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 Aug 10, 1:10 PM MST, 5 hours 50 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE POCATELLO ID 210 PM MDT SUN AUG 10 2008 .DISCUSSION...LATEST SATELLITE IMAGERY SHOWING UPPER LOW MIGRATING EAST ACROSS WRN CANADA THIS AFTERNOON AS ASSOCIATED TROUGH AXIS ADVANCED INTO ERN OREGON. SURFACE COLD FRONT THAT MOVED INTO THE REGION OVERNIGHT HAS PROVIDED MODEST COOLING AND DRYING (STABILIZING INFLUENCE) OVER THE PAST 24HRS. RUC13 MODEL SHOWING ENOUGH DYNAMICAL FORCING WITH ADVANCING TROUGH AXIS AND JUST ENOUGH INSTABILITY LINGERING OVER THE REGION (ALSO EVIDENT ON GOES LI SATELLITE PRODUCT) TO POP A WEAK MOUNTAIN SHOWER/TSTM OR TWO THIS EVENING IN AN OTHERWISE DRY AIRMASS. THUS WILL HOLD ONTO A SLIGHT CHANCE MENTION OF CONVECTION EARLY THIS EVENING WITH CLEARING OVERNIGHT. UPPER LOW SHIFTS EAST OF THE REGION LATE TONIGHT AS FLAT UPPER RIDGE BUILDS ACROSS WRN STATES...REMAINING THE DOMINANT FEATURE THROUGH WEDNESDAY MORNING. MODELS SETTLING IN ON A WEAK SHORT-WAVE FEATURE TOPPING THE FLAT RIDGE AND DIGGING SE THROUGH MONTANA WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON WHICH MAY HAVE ENOUGH ENERGY TO SUPPORT ISOLATED MOUNTAIN CONVECTION. OTHERWISE...RIDGE AMPLIFIES OVER REGION THURSDAY THROUGH SATURDAY FOR DRY AND WARMER CONDITIONS. MAY SEE A LITTLE BREAK DOWN IN THE RIDGE BY SUNDAY PER THE ECMWF AND THUS HAVE ALLOWED ISOLATED CONVECTION TO REMAIN IN THE FORECAST THAT DAY AS WELL. HUSTON && .AVIATION...WEAK INSTABILITY AND WEAK FRONTAL LIFTING WILL COMBINE TO GENERATE A THREAT OVER ROUGH TERRAIN ALONG WY AND MT BORDERS...OTHERWISE DO NOT EXPECT -TSRA ACTIVITY TO AFFECT ANY AIRDROMES DURING THE PERIOD. GUSTY WIND MAY TAKE A WHILE TO SUBSIDE...BUT CLEAR SKIES SHOULD DEVELOP SOMETIME AFTER 11/06Z. DO NOT EXPECT WIND OR CLOUDS TO RETURN MON. MESSICK && .FIRE WEATHER...SOME ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS CAN BE EXPECTED AS A WEAK SHORTWAVE LIFTS ACROSS THE FORECAST AREA LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. IN THE FRONTS WAKE...DRIER CONDITIONS BUT SLIGHTLY COOLER TEMPERATURES WILL MEAN LITTLE CHANGE IN HUMIDITY. WIND WILL NOT BE AS STRONG TOMORROW. DRY STABLE CONDITIONS RETURN WITH LITTLE SIGNIFICANT WIND EXPECTED FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE WEEK. MESSICK && .PIH WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...NONE. &&
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE POCATELLO ID 940 AM MDT SUN AUG 10 2008 IDZ017>025-031-032-111000- 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- 940 AM MDT SUN AUG 10 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EASTERN IDAHO. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. ISOLATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE ACROSS EASTERN IDAHO TODAY. THE EASTERN MOUNTAINS AND ALONG THE MONTANA BORDER WILL BE THE FAVORED AREAS. NO SEVERE WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. STORMS SHOULD DIMINISH TONIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. MOSTLY DRY WEATHER WILL DOMINATE THE WEATHER FOR THE NEXT SEVERAL DAYS. ISOLATED MOUNTAIN THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO RETURN BY MIDWEEK. .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.
An 800 acre wildfire began August 10th in the Cedar Creek area 15 miles east of Blackfoot. The fire got to within a half mile of the Aldridge Post Office and School House on Blackfoot River Road but no damage was caused by the fire. It was contained on August 13th.
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