The Dietrich wildfire began on the 13th and burned near the town of Dietrich covering 145 acres. One power pole had to be replaced and 432 customers lost electricity from the fire on the 13th of June.
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 Dietrich wildfire began on the 13th and burned near the town of Dietrich covering 145 acres. One power pole had to be replaced and 432 customers lost electricity from the fire on the 13th of June. Other than power poles, no other structures were damaged.
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 13, 1:59 AM MST, 5 hours 1 minute earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE POCATELLO ID 259 AM MDT FRI JUN 13 2014 .DISCUSSION...COLD FRONT CONTINUES TO MOVE EAST AND WILL EXIT THE STATE AROUND SUNRISE. A FEW LINGERING SHOWERS PRESENTLY IN THE EXTREME SE CORNER OF ID AS A RESULT WILL SHIFT EAST AND DIMINISH OVER THE NEXT COUPLE OF HOURS. ASSOCIATED UPPER LOW OVER THE PAC NW WILL MOVE INTO WESTERN ID TODAY AND THROUGH EAST ID FRIDAY NIGHT. EXPECT ANOTHER ROUND OF THUNDERSTORMS FOR THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING WITH THIS FEATURE. IN ADDITION...WINDS WILL BE STRONG AND GUSTY AND A WIND ADVISORY HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR THE SNAKE RIVER PLAIN. SATURDAY WILL BRING ANOTHER ROUND OF CONVECTION ALONG THE WY/MT BORDER REGIONS AS WRAPAROUND MOISTURE AND WEAK INSTABILITY LINGERS BEHIND THIS SYSTEM. TRANSITORY HIGH PRESSURE RIDGE WILL MOVE OVER THE REGION SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY MORNING...HOWEVER THE NEXT SYSTEM WILL QUICKLY DEVELOP OVER THE PAC NW SUNDAY AFTERNOON AND REMAIN OVER THE REGION THROUGH TUESDAY. THIS UPPER LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM BEGINS TO MOVE EAST WEDNESDAY MORNING AND WILL MOVE THROUGH IDAHO WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY. THIS WILL BRING UNSETTLED WEATHER TO THE AREA WITH A THREAT OF CONVECTIVE PRECIPITATION FOR PORTIONS OF SE ID THROUGH THURSDAY. PATTERN SHIFTS TO ZONAL WESTERLY FLOW FOR FRIDAY WITH YET ANOTHER SYSTEM APPROACHING THE PAC NW FOR NEXT WEEKEND. THIS ACTIVE PATTERN WILL RESULT IN HIGH TEMPERATURES REMAINING BELOW NORMAL THROUGH MOST OF THE WEEK. DSH && .AVIATION...AN UPPER LOW OVER THE PAC NW TODAY WILL RESULT IN SCT SHOWERS AND TSTMS MAINLY OVER THE MTNS TODAY AND TONIGHT. ISOLD TSTMS ARE POSSIBLE IN THE SNAKE RIVER PLAIN. STRONG SW WINDS ARE EXPECTED ACROSS THE SNAKE RIVER PLAIN BY AFTERNOON...CONTINUING INTO THE EVE. OVERALL CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED TO REMAIN VFR. HEDGES && .FIRE WEATHER...AN UPPER LOW OVER THE PAC NW TODAY IS EXPECTED TO PRODUCE SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE MOUNTAINS TODAY AND AGAIN ON SATURDAY. ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE ELSEWHERE. STRONG SOUTHWEST WINDS WILL ACCOMPANY A COLD FRONT WHICH WILL PASS THROUGH SOUTHEAST IDAHO TODAY. THE STRONG WINDS WILL CONTINUE INTO THE EVENING HOURS. COOLER TEMPERATURES ARE EXPECTED THROUGH THE WEEKEND...ALONG WITH HIGHER HUMIDITY. ISOLATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE IN THE MOUNTAINS ON SUNDAY. MOUNTAIN SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...ALONG WITH MILD TEMPERATURES WILL CONTINUE THROUGH MIDWEEK. HEDGES && .PIH WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... WIND ADVISORY FROM 8 AM THIS MORNING TO 9 PM MDT THIS EVENING IDZ020-021. &&
1 wildfire. Local standard time, as filed.
The Dietrich wildfire began on the 13th and burned near the town of Dietrich covering 145 acres. One power pole had to be replaced and 432 customers lost electricity from the fire on the 13th of June. Other than power poles, no other structures were damaged.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Idaho in 2014Every state in 2014This day in weather historyWarnings in Idaho, June 2014
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