The Bradley wildfire northwest of Stanley was reported on July 20th but caused the Bradley Boy Scout Camp and campers to be evacuated. It was controlled by July 24th.
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.
The Bradley wildfire northwest of Stanley was reported on July 20th but caused the Bradley Boy Scout Camp and campers to be evacuated. It was controlled by July 24th.
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 Jul 20, 1:00 PM MST, 1 hour earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE POCATELLO ID 200 PM MDT SAT JUL 20 2013 .DISCUSSION...ANOTHER DAY WITH VERY LITTLE MODIFICATION TO CURRENT FORECAST. UPPER FLOW REMAINS WEAKLY ZONAL/SLIGHTLY NORTHWEST WITH DRY UPSTREAM CONDITIONS. UPPER LOW REMAINS WELL SOUTH WITH FLATTENED/STRETCHED HIGH OVER GREAT BASIN. MOISTURE NOT QUITE REACHING SOUTHERN STATE LINE. THUS FEEL CONFIDENT IN KEEPING DRY/CLEAR CONDITIONS IN PLACE WITH TEMPS ROUGHLY ON THE WARM SIDE OF A GUIDANCE BLEND. GFS AND ECMWF HAVE DELAYED NORTHWARD SURGE OF MONSOON MOISTURE UNTIL WEDNESDAY. NAM PUSHES SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT OF MOISTURE INTO THE REGION AS EARLY AS TUESDAY BUT CONSENSUS MAKES THIS AN OUTLIER FOR NOW. KEPT POPS NEAR CLIMO FOR WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON AND BEYOND AS FLOW ALOFT MAINTAINS SOUTHWEST COMPONENT TO MAINTAIN MOISTURE FLOW INTO THE REGION. BIG DROP IN TEMPS ON 00Z EMCWF COMPARED TO 12Z GFS FOR THURSDAY AND BEYOND SO KEPT ONGOING GRIDS IN PLACE. DMH && .AVIATION...WIDESPREAD VFR WITH DRAINAGE WINDS OVERNIGHT AND WEST TO SOUTHWEST WINDS IN THE SNAKE RIVER PLAIN DURING DAYTIME HOURS. DSH && .FIRE WEATHER...EXPECT PERSISTENT PATTERN THROUGH TUESDAY WITH VERY DRY WESTERLY FLOW AND RELATIVELY STRONG INSTABILITY. AFTERNOON RELATIVE HUMIDITY LEVELS WILL REMAIN BELOW 15 PERCENT AND EXPECT POOR RECOVER DURING OVERNIGHT HOURS AT MIDSLOPE ELEVATIONS. MID LEVEL WINDS WILL MIX TO THE SURFACE IN THE AFTERNOON WITH LOCAL WIND GUSTS OF 15 TO 25 MPH. THE COMBINATION OF DRY AND UNSTABLE CONDITIONS WILL RESULT IN MODERATE TO HIGH HAINES INDEX VALUES AS WELL. MONSOON MOISTURE BEGINS TO PUSH NORTH THROUGH CALIFORNIA ON TUESDAY WITH THE POTENTIAL FOR THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING WEDNESDAY. DSH && .PIH WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NONE. &&
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE POCATELLO ID 459 AM MDT SAT JUL 20 2013 IDZ017>025-031-032-211100- 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- 459 AM MDT SAT JUL 20 2013 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EASTERN IDAHO. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. LOOK FOR WELL ABOVE AVERAGE DAY TIME HIGH TEMPERATURES ACROSS THE AREA. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. EXPECT WELL ABOVE AVERAGE TEMPERATURES ACROSS THE AREA PARTICULARLY SUNDAY AND MONDAY. EXPECT DAY TIME HIGH TEMPERATURES 3 TO 5 DEGREES BELOW RECORD HIGHS. EXPECT AFTERNOON THUNDERSTORMS TO RETURN BY WEDNESDAY AND CONTINUE THROUGH THE END OF THE WEEK AS MONSOON MOISTURE MOVES BACK INTO THE AREA. .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.
The Bradley wildfire northwest of Stanley was reported on July 20th and only grew to 50 acres but caused the Bradley Boy Scout Camp and campers to be evacuated. It was controlled by July 24th.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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