Wildfire, East Slopes Northern Cascades
- When
- August 10, 12:00 AM PST to August 19, 5:00 PM PST
- Where
- East Slopes Northern Cascades forecast zone
- Reported by
- Other Federal Agency
Wildfire in Washington, August 10 to 19, 2008
The Jack Creek Fire, centered 13 miles southwest of Leavenworth, was a lightning caused fire that burned 1,058 acres. Rain fell on the 19th which very little to no extra acres burned thereafter.
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 Jack Creek Fire, centered 13 miles southwest of Leavenworth, was a lightning caused fire that burned 1,058 acres. Rain fell on the 19th which very little to no extra acres burned thereafter.
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 9, 9:00 PM PST, 3 hours earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 9, 9:00 PM PST, 3 hours before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPOKANE WA 1000 PM PDT SAT AUG 9 2008 ...UPDATED AVIATION ALSO... .SYNOPSIS... ISOLATED SHOWERS THUNDERSTORMS WILL END THIS EVENING...AND BE LIMITED MAINLY OVER THE MOUNTAINS ON SUNDAY. TEMPERATURES WILL BE MUCH COOLER THAN NORMAL SUNDAY AND MONDAY BEFORE TEMPERATURES ONCE AGAIN WARM INTO THE 90S BY THE MIDDLE OF NEXT WEEK. && .DISCUSSION... NO FURTHER MAJOR UPDATES TO THE FCST FOR THE REST OF TONIGHT FOLLOWING THE REMOVAL OF ALL MENTION OF THUNDER FOR THE MTN ZONES ALONG THE BC BORDER. NOT TO MENTION THE LOSS OF PEAK AFTERNOON HEATING...THE WELL-DEFINED VORT MAX NOW OVER VANCOUVER ISLAND/SW BC WILL MOVE STEADILY NE AND PUT ERN WA UNDER AN INCREASINGLY STABLE AIR-MASS AS 500MB TEMPS WARM 3-6C. THOUGH THE MAIN SHORT-WAVE TROF AXIS HAS ALREADY LIFTED N INTO SRN BC...ANOTHER WEAKER TRAILING WAVE (NOW AROUND 130W SW OF VANCOUVER ISLAND) WILL REACH THE CASCADES BY 12Z SUNDAY. GIVEN THE DEEP POST-FRONTAL DRY SLOT AND BREEZY WINDS THAT HAVE WORKED THEIR WAY INTO THE COLUMBIA BASIN...IN ADDITION TO THE INCREASING STABILITY...THE MAIN EFFECT OF THIS SECOND WAVE WILL BE TO INCREASE MID-LEVEL CLOUDS OVERNIGHT AND SLOW THE RAPID COOLING FOR SITES THAT MANAGED TO DECOUPLE SUFFICIENTLY. BZ && .AVIATION... VFR CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED AT ALL TAF SITES THROUGH 06Z MON. WEVE INCREASED THE COVERAGE OF MID AND HI CLOUD CEILINGS OVERNIGHT...AND STEADILY DECREASED SFC SUSTAINED WIND SPEEDS AS PRESSURE GRADIENTS DECREASE. /BZ && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... SPOKANE 53 71 49 76 51 83 / 0 10 0 0 0 0 COEUR DALENE 53 72 50 76 49 81 / 0 20 10 0 0 0 PULLMAN 47 73 44 77 42 83 / 0 20 0 0 0 0 LEWISTON 57 81 56 84 56 89 / 0 10 0 0 0 0 COLVILLE 46 73 44 81 45 86 / 10 20 10 0 0 0 SANDPOINT 50 72 46 73 43 80 / 10 20 10 0 0 0 KELLOGG 52 70 48 72 51 81 / 0 20 0 0 0 0 MOSES LAKE 53 78 50 82 52 88 / 0 0 0 0 0 0 WENATCHEE 57 77 56 83 57 88 / 0 0 0 0 0 0 OMAK 51 79 49 85 52 89 / 10 10 0 0 0 0 && .OTX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... ID...NONE. WA...NONE. &&
Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 9, 6:34 PM PST, 5 hours 26 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPOKANE WA 734 PM PDT SAT AUG 9 2008 IDZ001>004-026-027-WAZ031>038-041>044-110245- NORTHERN PANHANDLE-COEUR DALENE AREA-IDAHO PALOUSE- CENTRAL PANHANDLE MOUNTAINS-LEWISTON AREA- LEWIS AND SOUTHERN NEZ PERCE COUNTIES-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- 734 PM PDT SAT AUG 9 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTH IDAHO... NORTH CENTRAL IDAHO...CENTRAL WASHINGTON...EAST CENTRAL WASHINGTON...NORTH CENTRAL WASHINGTON...NORTHEAST WASHINGTON AND SOUTHEAST WASHINGTON. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.
Event by event
1 wildfire. Local standard time, as filed.
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
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- Hail and Damaging Winds in New Jersey, August 10, 2008
- Rip Current in Michigan, August 10, 2008
- Flash Flooding in New Jersey, August 10, 2008
- Flooding and Hail in Massachusetts, August 10, 2008
- Hail in New York, August 10, 2008
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Delaware, August 10, 2008
- Hail and Damaging Winds in North Dakota, August 10, 2008
- Flash Flooding in New Hampshire, August 10, 2008
- Flash Flooding and Hail in New York, August 10, 2008
- Flash Flood in New Hampshire, August 10, 2008
- Lightning Strike in North Dakota, August 10, 2008
More
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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: 131398.