A fire which began 1 mile northeast of Atomic City burned 14,139 acres on the INL site. The fire temporarily closed Highway 20 and non-essential personnel were evacuated from the site.
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.
The episode as NWS PIH wrote it up.
A fire which began 1 mile northeast of Atomic City burned 14,139 acres on the INL site. The fire temporarily closed Highway 20 and non-essential personnel were evacuated from the site.
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 27, 12:45 PM MST, 1 hour 15 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE POCATELLO ID 145 PM MDT FRI AUG 27 2010 .DISCUSSION...UPPER TROF OVER THE PAC NW WILL GET ANOTHER BOOST AS A WAVE ROTATES THRU THE BASE ON SATURDAY. THIS WILL AMPLIFY THE TROF AND ANCHOR IT OVER THE WRN US THRU THE WEEKEND. TSTMS POPPING UP OVER THE SE HIGHLANDS JUST N OF THE FRONTAL BOUNDARY...WHICH HAS BECOME STATIONARY ACROSS NORTHERN UT/SW WY. CHANCES FOR PRECIP WILL GO FROM THE SE PART OF THE FCST AREA TONIGHT...TO THE ENTIRE FCST AREA BY SAT EVE. SHOWERY PRECIP WILL CONTINUE THRU MON...WHEN THE TROF FLATTENS AND MOVES OFF TO THE EAST. DURING THIS TIME... TEMPS WILL REMAIN BELOW NORMAL. SHOWERS WILL CONTINUE INTO TUE FOR THE FAR NORTHERN PARTS OF THE FCST AREA. BY TUE NIGHT...BROAD RIDGING BUILDS OVER THE ROCKIES. THIS WILL RESULT IN A RETURN TO DRY CONDITIONS AND WAMRER TEMPS. HEDGES && .AVIATION...WE ARE STILL WATCHING BREEZY CONDITIONS ACROSS PORTIONS OF EASTERN IDAHO...WITH THE STRONGEST WINDS THROUGH EVENING ACROSS THE UPPER SNAKE PLAIN. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS FOR TONIGHT WILL BE CONFINED TO THE SOUTHERN AND EASTERN MOUNTAINS. TAFS FOR KPIH...KIDA AND KBYI ALL CONTAIN VCTS OR VCSH THROUGH SATURDAY MORNING WITH CHANCES FOR THUNDERSTORMS INCREASING FOR THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING. KSUN WILL NOT SEE ANYTHING DEVELOPING UNTIL LATE AFTERNOON INTO SATURDAY EVENING. THE CHANCE FOR SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH SUNDAY. DESPITE THE FORECAST...VFR CONDITIONS WILL DOMINATE EXCEPT FOR ANY STORMS THAT WOULD END UP PRODUCING HEAVY RAINFALL AND GUSTY WINDS THAT MIGHT REDUCE VISIBILITY. KEYES && .FIRE WEATHER...WE ARE WATCHING A SLOW MOVING SYSTEM THROUGH THE FIRST PART OF NEXT WEEK. SHOWERS AND WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH SATURDAY MORNING WILL BE MAINLY CONFINED TO THE SOUTHERN AND EASTERN MOUNTAINS. OTHER AREAS WILL BE LOOKING AT 10 PERCENT CHANCE OR LESS OF SOMETHING DEVELOPING. AS THIS SYSTEM APPROACHES...COVERAGE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL INCREASE. FOR THE CENTRAL MOUNTAINS AND ZONES 409/412...THIS WILL NOT HAPPEN UNTIL LATE AFTERNOON. WITH THE COVERAGE OF THUNDERSTORMS FORECASTED...A RED FLAG WARNING WILL BE ISSUED FOR ZONE 410 FOR THE AFTERNOON HOURS UNTIL MIDNIGHT. SINCE THERE IS STILL SOME UNCERTAINTY IN TIMING FARTHER WEST...WE ARE GOING WITH JUST A FIRE WEATHER WATCH IN ZONES 409 AND 412. THE UNCERTAINTY TIMING IN THOSE ZONES WOULD CERTAINLY AFFECT THE LIGHTNING POTENTIAL FOR THE WESTERN HALF OF THOSE ZONES. FOR THE EASTERN PARTS...THERE APPEARS TO BE A MUCH GREATER FOR LIGHTNING. A MIX OF WET AND DRY THUNDERSTORMS IS FORECAST...WITH WIND GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 40 MPH POSSIBLE. WE WILL ALSO SEE A FRONT WORK ACROSS THE AREA. WIND SPEEDS ARE NOT EXPECTED TO BE AS STRONG THIS TIME. MOST AREAS TOMORROW WILL SEE WINDS 10-15 MPH SUSTAINED WITH GUSTS UNDER 25 MPH EXCEPT FOR THE SOUTHEAST CORNER WHERE WINDS WILL BE CLOSER TO 20 MPH WITH GUSTS OF 30 TO 35 MPH POSSIBLE...EVEN OUTSIDE THUNDERSTORM AREAS. FOR SATURDAY NIGHT...WINDS OF 15 TO 25 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 30 MPH ARE FORECAST AS THE FRONT PASSES BUT SHOULD NOT LAST VERY LONG. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE ON SUNDAY. ISOLATED STORMS ARE ANTICIPATED IN THE WESTERN FIRE ZONES WITH WIDELY SCATTERED POSSIBLE IN THE EAST. KEYES && .PIH WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... RED FLAG WARNING FOR FIRE WX ZONE 410 FROM NOON MDT SATURDAY UNTIL MIDNIGHT MDT SUNDAY. FIRE WX WATCH FOR FIRE ZONES 409 AND 412 FROM 3 PM MDT SATURDAY UNTIL MIDNIGHT MDT SUNDAY LAKE WIND ADVISORY UNTIL 6 PM MDT THIS EVENING IDZ021. &&
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE POCATELLO ID 150 PM MDT FRI AUG 27 2010 IDZ017>025-031-032-280945- 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- 150 PM MDT FRI AUG 27 2010 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EASTERN IDAHO. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT BREEZY WEST-SOUTHWEST WINDS ARE EXPECTED THROUGHOUT THE AREA FOR MUCH OF TODAY. A LAKE WIND ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT FOR AMERICAN FALLS RESERVOIR UNTIL 6 PM. ISOLATED TO SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL REMAIN IN THE PICTURE TODAY AND TONIGHT ALONG THE EASTERN AND SOUTHERN HIGHLANDS AREAS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY A RED FLAG WARNING IS IN EFFECT FROM NOON MDT SAT UNTIL MIDNIGHT SUN FOR THE UPPER SNAKE RIVER PLAIN DUE TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS. A FIRE WEATHER WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR THE EASTERN MAGIC VALLEY AND ADJACENT SOUTHERN HIGHLANDS FROM 3 PM MDT SAT UNTIL MIDNIGHT MDT SUN DUE TO THUNDERSTORMS A BROAD TROUGH WILL CONTINUE TO SLOWLY SLIDE ACROSS THE REGION THIS WEEKEND AND INTO EARLY NEXT WEEK. THE BEST POTENTIAL FOR SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE ON SATURDAY AND SUNDAY WITH THE MAIN FOCUS ACROSS HIGHER ELEVATIONS. MUCH COLDER AIR WILL WORK INTO THE AREA THIS WEEKEND WITH HIGHS ONLY EXPECTED IN THE 60S AND 70S BY SATURDAY. A DRYING AND WARMING TREND RETURNS BY MID WEEK NEXT WEEK. .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 fire which began 1 mile northeast of Atomic City burned 14,139 acres on the INL site. The fire temporarily closed Highway 20 and non-essential personnel were evacuated from the site.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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