The Red Rock fire in the Marble Mountain Wilderness portion of the Klamath National Forest was started by humans on 8/21/09 around 7 PM PDT. As of 09/02/09, it was at 1382 acres and was 90 percent contained.
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The Red Rock fire in the Marble Mountain Wilderness portion of the Klamath National Forest was started by humans on 8/21/09 around 7 PM PDT. As of 09/02/09, it was at 1382 acres and was 90 percent contained. Fire fighting efforts were transferred to a local unit on 09/01/09, and full containment was estimated to occur on 9/5/9. As of 09/01/09, the cost of the fire was 3.7 million dollars. No dollar figures are available after that date.
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 Medford, OR wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Aug 31, 7:48 PM PST, 4 hours 12 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEDFORD OR 848 PM PDT MON AUG 31 2009 .SHORT TERM...A SHORTWAVE IS MOVING NORTH OUT OF THE AREA THIS EVENING. THIS WEAK DISTURBANCE HAS BROUGHT SOME AREAS OF CUMULUS CLOUDS AND SOME GUSTY SOUTHERLY WINDS TO PORTIONS OF THE AREA. HOWEVER...NO THUNDERSTORMS OR MEASURABLE PRECIPITATION FROM RAIN SHOWERS HAVE DEVELOPED. WIND GUSTS AND CLOUDS WILL DECREASE LATER THIS EVENING AS THE SHORTWAVE MOVES NORTHWARD FOR LOCATIONS INLAND. ALONG THE COAST THE MARINE STRATUS WILL CONTINUE TONIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY MORNING. THIS MARINE LAYER WILL LIKELY SPREAD INTO PORTIONS OF THE UMPQUA LATE TONIGHT INTO EARLY TUESDAY MORNING. EXPECT LOW CLOUDS TO GRADUALLY CLEAR INLAND LATE IN THE MORNING TUESDAY WITH PARTIAL CLEARING ON THE COAST IN THE AFTERNOON. MODELS CONTINUE TO SHOW SOUTH TO SOUTHWEST FLOW ALOFT WITH AN UPPER LOW OFFSHORE TUESDAY INTO WEDNESDAY. ANOTHER SHORTWAVE MOVING AROUND THE BASE OF THE TROUGH IS EXPECTED TO MOVE ACROSS THE AREA TOMORROW. THIS DISTURBANCE IS FORECAST TO BE WEAKER THAN THE ONE TODAY AND IS NOT EXPECTED TO PRODUCE SHOWERS OR THUNDERSTORMS. LIKELY WILL SEE SOME MIDDLE TO HIGH CLOUDS WITH THIS DISTURBANCE DURING THE DAY TUESDAY. THE LATEST MODELS RUNS SHOW THE SOUTHWEST FLOW PATTERN CONTINUING ON WEDNESDAY...THEN OFFSHORE LOW MOVES TOWARDS THE NORTHERN OREGON COAST AND WEAKENS. THE ECMWF AND GFS ARE KEEPING PRECIPITATION WITH THIS LOW NORTH OF THE AREA. HOWEVER...THE SOUTHERN EDGE OF THIS SYSTEM WAY BRING SOME LIGHT RAIN TO THE SOUTHERN OREGON COAST...MAINLY ALONG THE COOS AND DOUGLAS COAST. && .AVIATION...MVFR CIGS WITH ISOLATED IFR CIGS/VSBYS ALONG THE COAST AND INTO THE COASTAL VALLEYS WILL CONTINUE THIS EVENING...BECOMING MVFR CIGS/VSBYS WITH AREAS OF IFR CIGS/VSBYS LATE TONIGHT CONTINUING THROUGH TUESDAY MORNING. AREAS OF MVFR CIGS WILL SPREAD INTO THE UMPQUA BASIN EARLY TUESDAY MORNING INCLUDING IN THE VICINITY OF RBG. EXPECT GRADUAL CLEARING OF THE LOW CLOUDS LATE TUESDAY MORNING INLAND WITH PARTIAL CLEARING ALONG THE COAST BECOMING AREAS OF MVFR CIGS. ELSEWHERE VFR CONDITIONS WILL PREVAIL. && .PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 100 PM PDT MON AUG 31 2009/ DISCUSSION...31/12Z NAM/GFS IN. A SHORT WAVE RIDGE CURRENTLY OVER THE MEDFORD CWA WILL BREAK DOWN LATER TODAY. A LONG WAVE UPPER TROUGH NEAR 140W WILL PROGRESS SLOWLY EASTWARD AND SHEAR LATER TODAY...FORMING A CUTOFF LOW. AS IT DOES SO SHORT WAVES EJECTING FROM THIS SYSTEM WILL MOVE OVER THE CWA. THE FIRST...AND STRONGEST...OF THESE WAVES WILL MOVE ALONG THE COAST FROM SOUTH TO NORTH THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. HAVE DROPPED ANY MENTION OF THUNDERSTORMS FROM THE FORECAST AS MODEL INDICES HAVE BECOME MORE STABLE AND THERE ISNT MUCH OF ANYTHING DEVELOPING OUT THERE NOW. OTHER SHORT WAVES WILL MOVE THROUGH TONIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT...BUT THEY WILL HAVE LITTLE EFFECT ON THE SENSIBLE WEATHER. WILL KEEP A DRY FORECAST THROUGH WEDNESDAY WITH NEAR SEASONABLE TEMPERATURES. THE FATE OF THE CUTOFF LOW HAS BEEN THE BIGGEST FORECAST CHALLENGE OF THE LAST FEW DAYS AS THE MEDIUM RANGE MODEL SOLUTIONS HAVE BEEN INCONSISTENT BOTH MODEL-TO-MODEL AND RUN-TO-RUN WITHIN THE SAME MODEL. HOWEVER...IT DOES APPEAR THAT THERE IS SOME CONVERGENCE IN THE SOLUTIONS IN THE OFFING. NOW THE GFS ENSEMBLES INDICATE THAT THE OPERATIONAL SOLUTION IS NOT AN OUTLIER...BUT RATHER A MIDDLING ONE. THE GFS AND ECMWF SOLUTIONS ARE ALSO CONVERGING. SO...WHAT IS THAT SOLUTION? THE CUTOFF WILL MOVE EAST TO 130W WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON AND ONSHORE WEDNESDAY NIGHT. THE GFS HAS A STRONGER LOW AND BRINGS IT FARTHER SOUTH...BUT BOTH SOLUTIONS DIRECT THE BULK OF THE ENERGY TO THE NORTH OF THE CWA. ONCE THAT SYSTEM MOVES A FALL-LIKE LOW AMPLITUDE PROGRESSIVE PATTERN WILL SET UP WITH A PARADE OF SYSTEMS MOVING ONSHORE THROUGH THE EXTENDED PERIOD. THE STORM TRACK WILL REMAIN TO THE NORTH OF THE AREA...BUT THE MEDFORD CWA WILL SEE THE SOUTHERN END OF THESE SYSTEMS WITH THE BULK OF THE PRECIPITATION LIMITED TO THE COAST. GENERALLY THE WEATHER WILL BE COOL AND UNSETTLED. THE 31/06Z AND 12Z GFS SOLUTIONS INDICATE THAT THE FRIDAY SYSTEM WILL BE THE STRONGEST AND WETTEST OF THESE SYSTEMS...BUT THE LATEST GFS RUN IS QUITE A BIT DRIER THAN THE 06Z RUN. WILL GO WITH COOLER THAN NORMAL TEMPERATURES AND CHANCE TO SLIGHT CHANCE POPS ON THE COAST FROM THURSDAY ON...WITH DIMINISH POPS GOING INLAND. AVIATION...SOME AREAS OF IFR CIGS/VSBYS ARE HANGING IN THERE ALONG THE COAST AND IN THE COQUILLE VALLEY. SOME OF THOSE AREAS WILL NOT CLEAR TODAY. IFR CIGS/VSBYS WILL RETURN TO THE REMAINDER OF THE COAST AND COASTAL VALLEYS TONIGHT...ALONG WITH THE LOWER UMPQUA BASIN. THOSE AREAS WILL CLEAR TO VFR BY NOON TUESDAY. ELSEWHERE VFR CONDITIONS WILL PREVAIL THROUGH TUESDAY. && .MFR WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... OR...NONE. CA...NONE. PACIFIC COASTAL WATERS...NONE. CC
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 wildfire. Local standard time, as filed.
The Red Rock fire in the Marble Mountain Wilderness portion of the Klamath National Forest was started by humans on 8/21/09 around 7 PM PDT. As of 09/02/09, it was at 1382 acres and was 90 percent contained.
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