The Highway 141 fire was located along the east side of Hwy. 141, approximately 2 miles north of White Salmon, Washington.
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The episode as NWS PDT wrote it up.
The Highway 141 fire was located along the east side of Hwy. 141, approximately 2 miles north of White Salmon, Washington. The fire started at approximately 1:30pm on Wednesday, Sept. 5th. The fire was contained on September 11 after burning approximately 1,644 acres.
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 Pendleton, OR wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Sep 5, 9:15 AM PST, 3 hours 15 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENDLETON OR 1015 AM PDT WED SEP 5 2012 UPDATED AVIATION .UPDATE...CURRENT FORECAST REMAINS ON TRACK WITH LITTLE TO NO CHANGES. HAVE JUST MADE A COUPLE OF TWEAKS TO THE MAXIMUM AND MINIMUM TEMPERATURES FOR TODAY AND TONIGHT. OTHERWISE...MOSTLY CLEAR SKIES AND CONTINUED ABOVE NORMAL DAYTIME TEMPERATURES AND NEAR TO SLIGHTLY BELOW NIGHT TIME TEMPERATURES...DUE TO STRONG DIURNAL SWINGS...FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE WORK WEEK. WEBER && AVIATION...18Z TAFS...VFR CONDITIONS AND SKC WILL CONTINUE WITH LIGHT DIURNAL WINDS. && .PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 427 AM PDT WED SEP 5 2012/ SHORT TERM...TODAY THROUGH FRIDAY...THE REGION WILL BE IN A WEAK FLOW REGIME BETWEEN AN UPPER LOW OFF THE NRN CALIFORNIA COAST AND A BRANCH OF THE WESTERLIES LIFTING NORTH FROM WA INTO SOUTHERN CANADA. WHAT THIS WILL MEAN FOR THE DAY TO DAY WEATHER THROUGH FRIDAY IS GENERALLY CLEAR SKIES...LIGHT WINDS AND WARMER THAN NORMAL TEMPERATURES. THERE WILL BE A FEW CLOUDS OVER WALLOWA COUNTY THURSDAY AFTERNOON AS A WEAK WAVE MOVES THROUGH...BUT BY AND LARGE NOT EXPECTING MUCH CLOUDS THE NEXT FEW DAYS. THERE WILL BE A LITTLE INSTABILITY BUILDING UP THURSDAY AFTERNOON...MAINLY OVER THE MEDFORD FORECAST AREA INTO SOUTHERN DESCHUTES COUNTY. HOWEVER...THERE DOES NOT APPEAR TO BE ENOUGH MOISTURE TO SUPPORT THUNDERSTORMS. 78 LONG TERM...FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY...HIGH PRESSURE ALOFT OVER THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST WILL GRADUALLY BREAK DOWN FRIDAY NIGHT INTO SUNDAY MORNING. THIS GRADUAL RIDGE BREAKDOWN WILL BE DUE TO A STRONG GULF OF ALASKA TROUGH FORCING A WEAKER UPPER LOW ONSHORE AND INTO THE RIDGE. OVERALL EXPECT DRY CONDITIONS FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY MORNING AS THE AIR MASS WILL REMAIN DRY. HIGH TEMPS SATURDAY AFTERNOON SHOULD BE THE WARMEST OF THE PERIOD. WEAK ELEVATED INSTABILITY MAY CAUSE THE DEVELOPMENT OF SOME ALTOCUMULUS CLOUDS SATURDAY EVENING THAT WILL RACE NORTHEAST OUT OF THE AREA BY DAYBREAK SUNDAY. FOR THE PERIOD SUNDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT, DATA STILL INDICATES THE POTENTIAL FOR AN UPPER TROUGH AND COLD FRONT TO SWING ACROSS THE REGION. AT THIS TIME THERE REMAIN DIFFERENCES BETWEEN MODELS ON THE SPEED AND AMPLITUDE OF THE SYSTEM. A SHARPER SYSTEM COULD PUSH SOME PRECIP EAST OF THE CASCADE WHILE A FLATTER SYSTEM WOULD LARGELY RESULT IN DRY CONDITIONS FOR OUR AREA OUTSIDE OF SOME NEAR CASCADE CREST SLOP OVER PRECIP. FOR NOW WILL CONTINUE CURRENT FORECAST THAT FOLLOWS THE FLATTER SCENARIO. TEMPS WOULD RETURN TO MORE SEASONAL VALUES MONDAY AND TUESDAY DUE TO THE PASSAGE OF THE COLD FRONT. 90 AVIATION...PREVIOUS DISCUSSION 12Z TAFS...A MOSTLY DRY NORTHWEST FLOW WILL KEEP CONDITIONS CLEAR AND VFR THROUGH THE NEXT 24 HOURS. A FEW CLOUDS AROUND 9000 FT MSL WILL DRIFT TOWARDS KYKM AND KPSC LATE IN THE PERIOD. WINDS WILL RUN LESS THAN 15 KTS AND WILL BE MOSTLY TERRAIN DRIVEN. 90 && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... PDT 86 52 83 51 / 0 0 0 0 ALW 87 58 86 55 / 0 0 0 0 PSC 88 54 87 50 / 0 0 0 0 YKM 86 55 86 51 / 0 0 0 0 HRI 88 51 88 47 / 0 0 0 0 ELN 88 54 86 48 / 0 0 0 0 RDM 86 46 84 43 / 0 0 0 0 LGD 85 48 82 44 / 0 0 0 0 GCD 85 51 84 46 / 0 0 0 0 DLS 91 58 90 54 / 0 0 0 0 && .PDT WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... OR...NONE. WA...NONE. && THREAT INDEX TODAY : GREEN THURSDAY : GREEN FRIDAY : GREEN GREEN: NONE OR LIMITED NEED FOR WATCHES, WARNINGS, OR ADVISORIES. YELLOW: A FEW WATCHES, WARNINGS, OR ADVISORIES POSSIBLE OR IN EFFECT. RED: NUMEROUS WATCHES, WARNINGS, OR ADVISORIES POSSIBLE OR IN EFFECT. FOR ADDITIONAL WEATHER INFORMATION, CHECK OUR WEB SITE AT... WWW.WEATHER.GOV/PENDLETON 89/90/90
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENDLETON OR 511 AM PDT WED SEP 5 2012 ORZ041-042-044-049-050-502-503-505>509-WAZ024-026>030-520-521- 061215- EASTERN COLUMBIA RIVER GORGE OF OREGON-NORTH CENTRAL OREGON- LOWER COLUMBIA BASIN OF OREGON-GRANDE RONDE VALLEY-WALLOWA COUNTY- NORTHERN BLUE MOUNTAINS OF OREGON- SOUTHERN BLUE MOUNTAINS OF OREGON-JOHN DAY BASIN-OCHOCO- JOHN DAY HIGHLANDS- FOOTHILLS OF THE NORTHERN BLUE MOUNTAINS OF OREGON- FOOTHILLS OF THE SOUTHERN BLUE MOUNTAINS OF OREGON- EAST SLOPES OF THE OREGON CASCADES- EASTERN COLUMBIA RIVER GORGE OF WASHINGTON-KITTITAS VALLEY- YAKIMA VALLEY-LOWER COLUMBIA BASIN OF WASHINGTON- FOOTHILLS OF THE BLUE MOUNTAINS OF WASHINGTON- NORTHWEST BLUE MOUNTAINS OF WASHINGTON- EAST SLOPES OF THE WASHINGTON CASCADES-SIMCOE HIGHLANDS- 511 AM PDT WED SEP 5 2012 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST OREGON AS WELL AS SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST WASHINGTON. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. HIGH PRESSURE WILL REMAIN OVER THE AREA WITH DRY WARM CONDITIONS EXPECTED. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. THE DRY WARM WEATHER WILL CONTINUE INTO THE WEEKEND WITH SOME POTENTIAL FOR COOLER WEATHER THE BEGINNING OF NEXT WEEK. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME. WEATHER SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER CONDITIONS ACCORDING TO STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURES. GRAPHICAL FORECASTS OF WEATHER HAZARDS OUT TO SEVEN DAYS ARE DISPLAYED ON THE WORLD WIDE WEB AT: WWW.WRH.NOAA.GOV/PDT/CURRENTHAZARDS/HWO.HTML ALL LETTERS IN THE ABOVE URL ARE LOWER CASE.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 wildfire. Local standard time, as filed.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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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: 412666.