The Brown Butte wildfire was located about 10 miles northeast of Shoshone. It began on July 21st and was controlled by July 23rd.
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 Brown Butte wildfire was located about 10 miles northeast of Shoshone. It began on July 21st and was controlled by July 23rd. It burned over 7000 acres. No homes or structures were threatened.
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 21, 12:43 PM MST, 47 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE POCATELLO ID 143 PM MDT SUN JUL 21 2013 .DISCUSSION...PERSISTENCE AGAIN THE RULE FOR THE SHORT TERM WITH NEARLY ZONAL/WEAKLY NORTHWEST DRY UPPER FLOW. TEMPS REMAIN WELL ABOVE NORMAL THROUGH TUESDAY WITH NO MOISTURE IN SIGHT. DUE TO WILDFIRES IN THE CENTRAL MOUNTAINS...HAVE MADE SLIGHT ADJUSTMENTS TO THE OVERNIGHT GRIDS TO SPREAD AREAS OF SMOKE A LITTLE FURTHER THAN PREVIOUS FORECAST. OTHERWISE...NAM HAS BACKED OFF ON BRINGING AN EARLY PUSH OF MONSOON FLOW FOR TUESDAY TO BE CLOSER IN LINE WITH GFS AND ECMWF. THUS WEAKENED POPS CONSIDERABLY FOR TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT. GFS AND ECMWF HAVE WEAKENED MONSOON PUSH SLIGHTLY FOR WEDNESDAY...BUT NOT ENOUGH TO DRY OUT THE FORECAST. BURSTS OF MOISTURE CONTINUE ACROSS EAST IDAHO INTO THE WEEKEND SO LEFT CURRENT FORECAST IN PLACE WITH NO CHANGE. DMH && .AVIATION...WIDESPREAD VFR WITH DRAINAGE WINDS OVERNIGHT AND WEST TO SOUTHWEST WINDS IN THE SNAKE RIVER PLAIN DURING DAYTIME HOURS. DSH && .FIRE WEATHER...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 AND CONTINUING THROUGH THE REMAINDER OF THE WEEK. DS && .PIH WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NONE. &&
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE POCATELLO ID 505 AM MDT SUN JUL 21 2013 IDZ017>025-031-032-221115- 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- 505 AM MDT SUN JUL 21 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...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. EXPECT ABOVE AVERAGE TEMPERATURES ACROSS THE AREA THROUGH THE PERIOD. 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 Brown Butte wildfire was located about 10 miles northeast of Shoshone. It began on July 21st and was controlled by July 23rd. It burned over 7000 acres. No homes or structures were threatened.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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