A wildfire began about 2 pm MDT 3 miles south of Firth on June 25th. It only covered a few acres but destroyed a barn in it's path.
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 wildfire began about 2 pm MDT 3 miles south of Firth on June 25th. It only covered a few acres but destroyed a barn in it's path. It was a grass fire and the estimated damage was $20,000.
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 Jun 25, 8:20 AM MST, 4 hours 40 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE POCATELLO ID 920 AM MDT MON JUN 25 2012 .UPDATE...NO UPDATES ANTICIPATED TODAY. UPPER LOW OFF CALIFORNIA/OREGON COAST BEGINNING TO EJECT NORTHEAST PER WV SAT IMAGERY. LARGE DRY WEDGE POINTED AT EASTERN IDAHO SHOULD KEEP MOST OF THE REGION DRY. UPPER LOW MAY CLIP CENTRAL MOUNTAINS TODAY BUT MOST LIKELY AFTER 00Z FOR ISOLATED POPS. ADDITIONAL MOISTURE LOCATED OVER THE EASTERN HIGHLANDS TODAY AND WEAK CAPPED CU ALREADY STARTING TO FORM IN WEAKLY UNSTABLE AIR MASS. MOISTURE COULD PUSH EAST OF THE FORECAST AREA BEFORE INSTABILITY MAXIMIZES THIS AFTERNOON. WILL LEAVE COLLABORATION POPS ACROSS THE REGION. COLD FRONT STILL PROGGED FOR LATE TONIGHT...LEAVING WIND FORECAST ISSUES ACROSS EASTERN IDAHO FOR TUESDAY. LATEST NAM GUIDANCE INDICATES POTENTIAL FOR WIND ADVISORY CONDITIONS IN THE SNAKE PLAIN SO LIKELY THAT AT LEAST LAKE WIND HEADLINE WILL BE NEEDED. WILL CONTINUE TO INVESTIGATE POTENTIAL AND MAY HAVE A HEADLINE IN PLACE FOR AFTERNOON ISSUANCE. DMH && .PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 327 AM MDT MON JUN 25 2012/ SHORT TERM...TODAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. EXPECT ANOTHER DRY AND HOT DAY WITH GUSTY WINDS ONCE AGAIN WITH A RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FOR PARTS OF THE AREA. MOST MODELS HAVE KEPT CONVECTIVE ACTIVITY TO THE EAST IN WYOMING BUT ENOUGH INSTABILITY AND PERHAPS SOME WESTWARD PUSH OF MONSOONAL MOISTURE KEPT IN ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS IN THE AFTERNOON IN THE EASTERN HIGHLANDS. UPPER TROF PUSHES INLAND TUESDAY AND DRIVES THROUGH THE STRONG COLD FRONT TUESDAY MORNING AND EXPECT STRONG WINDS BEHIND THE FRONT. IT WILL BE MUCH COOLER TUESDAY WITH A 15 TO 20 DEGREE DROP IN HIGH TEMPERATURES FROM WHAT THEY WILL BE TODAY. SHOULD BE A MAINLY DRY FRONT AND ONLY HAVE ISOLATED CONVECTION IN THE CENTRAL MOUNTAINS TUESDAY. SURFACE RIDGE BUILDS IN WEDNESDAY WITH CONTINUED DRY CONDITIONS AND TEMPERATURES BEGINNING A MODERATING TREND. GK LONG TERM...THURSDAY THROUGH MONDAY. SHOULD BE A MAINLY DRY PERIOD IN THE LONG TERM WITH PREDOMINATELY DRY SOUTHWESTERLY FLOW ALOFT THROUGH THE PERIOD. GFS INDICATING AN APPROACHING UPPER TROF BY MONDAY WITH THE EUROPEAN SLOWER IN ITS MOVEMENT. EXPECT ABOVE NORMAL TEMPERATURES THROUGH THE PERIOD WITH ONLY ISOLATED MOUNTAIN CONVECTION AT TIMES. GK AVIATION...THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON IN THE EASTERN HIGHLANDS...OTHERWISE ANOTHER DAY OF LOWER 90S TEMPERATURES IN THE VALLEY AND GUSTY SOUTH WINDS FOR KPIH AND KIDA. A PACIFIC COLD FRONT PASSES THE SNAKE PLAIN NEAR SUNRISE TUESDAY...FOLLOWED BY SOUTHWEST WINDS 20 TO 30 MPH AND GUSTY. RS FIRE WEATHER...THE LOW PRESSURE CIRCULATION NEAR THE OREGON COAST WILL BEGIN TO MOVE INLAND TODAY...CROSSING THE IDAHO PAN HANDLE ON TUESDAY. THAT IS A LITTLE SLOWER PACE THAN MODELS SUGGESTED YESTERDAY. WATER VAPOR IMAGERY SHOWS THERE IS STILL AN EXPANSIVE AREA OF DRY AIR THROUGH THE GREAT BASIN AND SOUTHEAST IDAHO. FOR THAT REASON WILL FAVOR KEEPING MINIMUM RELATIVE HUMIDITY THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING 8 TO 14 PERCENT IN THE SNAKE PLAIN. THE SURFACE PRESSURE GRADIENT INCREASES SOME TODAY OVER YESTERDAY...ENOUGH FOR GUSTS 30 TO 35 MPH IN THE UPPER SNAKE BLM...ZONE 410. A RED FLAG WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED. THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF DRY THUNDERSTORMS. AS FOR THE CENTRAL MOUNTAINS...THE MOIST UNSTABLE AIR IS EXPECTED TO TRACK SHARPLY TO THE NORTHEAST OR PAN HANDLE AND LIKELY MISS MOST OF THE AREA EXCEPT POSSIBLY THE BEAVERHEAD MOUNTAINS. THE SURFACE COLD FRONT CROSSES THE SNAKE PLAIN NEAR 0600 TUESDAY...FOLLOWED BY WEST TO SOUTHWEST WINDS 20 TO 30 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH. TEMPERATURES DROP 15 TO 20 DEGREES AND RELATIVE HUMIDITY INCREASES TO 15 TO 20 PERCENT. TEMPERATURES REBOUND 10 TO 15 DEGREES WEDNESDAY THROUGH SATURDAY UNDER A DRY WEST TO SOUTHWEST FLOW PATTERN. RS && .PIH WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... RED FLAG WARNING UNTIL 9 PM MDT THIS EVENING IDZ410. &&
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE POCATELLO ID 419 AM MDT MON JUN 25 2012 IDZ017>025-031-032-261030- 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- 419 AM MDT MON JUN 25 2012 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EASTERN IDAHO. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT EXPECT HOT AND MAINLY DRY CONDITIONS WITH GUSTY WINDS. A RED FLAG WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY AND GUSTY WINDS FROM 11 AM TO 9 PM FOR FIRE ZONE 410. PLEASE GO TO WEATHER.GOV/POCATELLO FOR DETAILED INFORMATION. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY A STRONG COLD FRONT WILL MOVE THROUGH TUESDAY MORNING AND EXPECT MUCH COLDER CONDITIONS AS WELL AS WINDY CONDITIONS BEHIND THE FRONT. .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 wildfire began about 2 pm MDT 3 miles south of Firth on June 25th. It only covered a few acres but destroyed a barn in it's path. It was a grass fire and the estimated damage was $20,000.
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