The 210 Road Fire was a 300 acre fire near Stanley that began July 22nd and was contained July 29th.
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The episode as NWS PIH wrote it up.
The 210 Road Fire was a 300 acre fire near Stanley that began July 22nd and was contained July 29th.
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 22, 12:51 PM MST, 2 hours 9 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE POCATELLO ID 151 PM MDT MON JUL 22 2013 .DISCUSSION...DRY AIR MASS REMAINS IN PLACE OVER EASTERN IDAHO. WEAK WAVE MOVING ALONG THE CANADIAN BORDER HELPING TO PRODUCE BREEZY CONDITIONS TODAY AND WILL KEEP LAKE WIND ADVISORY IN PLACE. MOISTURE BEGINNING TO MAKE SLIGHT NORTHWARD PUSH TOWARD THE SOUTHERN IDAHO BORDER PER WV SAT IMAGERY. SOME MITIGATION OF VERY DRY AIR MASS ON TUESDAY AS MODEL PWATS RISE TO AVERAGE 0.25 INCH OVER EAST IDAHO BY AFTERNOON. DEEPER MOISTURE REMAINS SOUTH HOWEVER AS RIDGE AXIS TRIES TO ROTATE NORTHEAST INTO THE REGION. MOISTURE DOES DEEPEN INTO WEDNESDAY WITH MODEL PWAT INCREASING TO NEAR 0.50 INCH. LOW LEVELS REMAIN VERY DRY SO CONFIDENCE IN THUNDERSTORMS IS LIMITED THUS LOWERED POPS SLIGHTLY. BETTER CHANCE ON THURSDAY TOWARD THE WEEKEND AS LOWER LEVELS MOISTEN UP SLIGHTLY. GFS AND ECMWF REASONABLY SIMILAR WITH SOUTHWEST PROGRESSION OF UPPER LOW FROM BC CANADA TOWARD THE PACNW STATES INTO THE WEEKEND. THIS COULD PUSH THE MOISTURE EAST OF THE REGION LATE SUNDAY INTO MONDAY. WILL CONTINUE TO MAINTAIN POPS NEAR CLIMO INTO THE WEEKEND WITH POTENTIAL DRYING TREND FOR THE BEGINNING OF NEXT WEEK. DMH && .AVIATION...VFR CLEAR CONDITIONS OUTSIDE SMOKE PLUMES FROM FIRES IN THE CENTRAL MOUNTAINS. HUSTON && .FIRE WEATHER...A WEST TO EAST ORIENTED HIGH PRESSURE RIDGE POSITIONED OVER NEVADA IS EFFECTIVELY BLOCKING MONSOON MOISTURE FROM WORKING NORTH OUT OF SRN CALIFORNIA/NEVADA TODAY. MEANWHILE...A MODEST DISTURBANCE SHEARING EAST THROUGH CANADA IS HELPING TO BOOST LOCALLY BREEZY AND DRY CONDITIONS ACROSS SRN IDAHO. THUS THE RED FLAG WARNING FOR FIRE ZONE 425 WILL CONTINUE INTO THE EVENING WHERE DRY FUELS AND WIND GUSTS TO 30 MPH WILL PREVAIL THROUGH 2100 MDT. THE RIDGE TO OUR SOUTH WILL BEGIN TO GRADUALLY EXPAND NORTHWARD TUESDAY/WEDNESDAY AS A SECOND PACIFIC DISTURBANCE DIGS SE TOWARD THE NW COASTAL WATERS. AS THE RIDGE EXPANDS NORTH...IT WILL OPEN THE DOOR FOR THE MONSOONAL MOISTURE POOLING TO OUR SOUTH TO SURGE NORTH ACROSS IDAHO. SEVERAL SURGES OF MONSOONAL MOISTURE/THUNDERSTORMS ARE ANTICIPATED WEDNESDAY THROUGH FRIDAY AS A RESULT. BY THE WEEKEND...THE DISTURBANCE OFF THE NW COAST BEGINS TO MIGRATE INLAND ACROSS WRN CANADA BRINGING STRONGER SOUTHWEST TO WEST WINDS TO THE REGION SUNDAY/MONDAY ALONG WITH A SURFACE COLD FRONT. AT THIS TIME...THE FRONT APPEARS TO WEAKEN AS IT SHIFTS INTO SE IDAHO SOMETIME SATURDAY NIGHT/SUNDAY. SLIGHTLY COOLER/NEAR NORMAL TEMPERATURES ARE ANTICIPATED BY MONDAY. HUSTON && .PIH WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... RED FLAG WARNING UNTIL 9 PM MDT THIS EVENING BELOW 5000 FEET FOR THE IDZ425. LAKE WIND ADVISORY UNTIL 9 PM MDT THIS EVENING IDZ021. &&
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE POCATELLO ID 457 AM MDT MON JUL 22 2013 IDZ017>025-031-032-231100- 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- 457 AM MDT MON JUL 22 2013 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EASTERN IDAHO. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT LOOK FOR BREEZY TO MODERATE WINDS OVER SOUTHEAST IDAHO THIS AFTERNOON INTO EARLY EVENING. A LAKE WIND ADVISORY FOR THE AMERICAN FALLS RESERVOIR IS IN EFFECT. ADDITIONALLY...A RED FLAG WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY AND WINDS FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONE 425. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. EXPECT ABOVE AVERAGE TEMPERATURES ACROSS THE AREA THROUGH THE PERIOD. EXPECT AFTERNOON ISOLATED MOUNTAIN THUNDERSTORMS TO RETURN BY WEDNESDAY AND CONTINUE THROUGH THE END OF THE PERIOD 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 210 Road Fire was a 300 acre fire near Stanley that began July 22nd and was contained July 29th.
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