On Friday, August 29, 2014, Oregon Department of Forestry Incident Management Team 2 (Incident Commander Chris Cline) was deployed to the Lost Hubcap Fire, burning approximately five miles south of the community of Monument. m.
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On Friday, August 29, 2014, Oregon Department of Forestry Incident Management Team 2 (Incident Commander Chris Cline) was deployed to the Lost Hubcap Fire, burning approximately five miles south of the community of Monument. The Lost Hubcap Fire, reported around 1:30 p.m. on August 29th, quickly burned on Bureau of Land Management and private forestlands protected by ODF. The team assumed command of the fire from the local ODF unit of the Central Oregon District at 1200 hours PDT on Saturday, August 30, 2014.
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 Aug 29, 9:31 AM PST, 2 hours 59 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENDLETON OR 1031 AM PDT FRI AUG 29 2014 UPDATED AVIATION DISCUSSION .SHORT TERM...CLEAR SKIES OVER THE FORECAST AREA THIS MORNING. AN UPPER LEVEL TROUGH IS APPROACHING THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST AND WILL BRING INCREASING MID AND HIGH LEVEL CLOUDS LATER THIS AFTERNOON. WEST WINDS WILL BE INCREASING THIS AFTERNOON INTO THE EVENING BECOMING BREEZY THROUGH THE COLUMBIA BASIN AND KITTITAS VALLEY. THE UPPER TROUGH WILL PUSH A WEAK FRONTAL BOUNDARY THROUGH THE REGION THIS EVENING AND OVERNIGHT WITH A FEW SHOWERS OVER THE CASCADES AND BLUES. MOSTLY CLOUDY SKIES ELSEWHERE. 94 && .AVIATION...18Z TAFS...VFR CONDITIONS WILL BE PREVALENT FOR THE NEXT 24 HOURS. AS A DISTURBANCE APPROACHES THE REGION, MOSTLY CLEAR SKIES CURRENTLY WILL GIVE WAY TO INCREASING CIRRUS ABOVE 20000 FEET AGL LATE THIS MORNING AND THIS AFTERNOON. SCATTERED MID LEVEL CLOUDS ABOVE 7000 FEET AGL WILL BEGIN MOVING INTO THE AREA AFTER 06Z TONIGHT. WINDS ARE INCREASING AND WILL REACH 10 TO 20 KTS WITH GUSTS TO 30 KTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING. WINDS WILL DROP BELOW 15 KTS AROUND 05Z-07Z THIS EVENING AND WILL BEGIN TO INCREASE AGAIN AFTER 16Z TOMORROW MORNING. PERRY && .PREV DISC... /ISSUED 430 AM PDT FRI AUG 29 2014/ SHORT TERM...TODAY THROUGH SUNDAY...A WESTERLY FLOW ALOFT WILL CONTINUE TO BRING IN COOLER MARINE AIR INTO THE FORECAST AREA TODAY...ESPECIALLY WESTERN AREAS OF THE CWA. A MOSTLY DRY COLD FRONT WILL SWEEP ACROSS THE FORECAST AREA THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. SURFACE PRESSURE GRADIENTS WILL INCREASE AHEAD OF THIS COLD FRONT CAUSING SOUTHWEST TO WEST WINDS TO INCREASE...ESPECIALLY IN THE EASTERN COLUMBIA RIVER GORGE AND IN THE KITTITAS VALLEY ALONG THE CASCADE EAST SLOPES. THIS COMBINED WITH MODERATELY LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITIES WILL LEAD TO HEIGHTENED FIRE WEATHER CONCERNS. HOWEVER RELATIVE HUMIDITIES WILL BE HIGH ENOUGH TO PREVENT RED FLAG CONDITIONS FROM BEING MET. THEREFORE WILL RECOMMEND TO FIRE WEATHER SHIFT TO ONLY INCLUDE A HEADLINE IN THE FIRE WEATHER FORECAST TODAY. OTHERWISE IT WILL BECOME COOLER TODAY THAN ON THURSDAY AND THEN EVEN COOLER ON SATURDAY AND SUNDAY. THE ATMOSPHERE WILL BE STABLE FOR THE MOST PART. THE ONLY CHANCE FOR PRECIPITATION TODAY WILL BE ALONG THE CASCADE EAST SLOPES WHERE SOME MOISTURE WILL SPILL OVER THE CASCADE CREST ONTO THE EAST SLOPES. DOWN SLOPE WINDS ON THE LEE OF THE CASCADES WILL CAUSE QUICK DRYING OF THIS AIR SO AM NOT EXPECTING PRECIPITATION TO MAKE IT TOO FAR EASTWARD AND MAINLY JUST OVER THE HIGHER ELEVATIONS OF THE EAST SLOPES. ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE CWA THE NORTHEAST OREGON/SOUTHEAST WASHINGTON MOUNTAINS WILL CREATE UPSLOPE WIND CONDITIONS AND THERE MAY BE A FEW SHOWERS THERE AS WELL BEGINNING THIS EVENING. IT WILL BE TOO STABLE FOR THUNDERSTORMS. IT WILL BE MORE UNSTABLE SOUTH AND EAST OF THE CWA WHERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE SOUTH AND EAST OF THE CWA BORDER. A BROAD UPPER TROUGH WILL SAG SOUTHWARD INTO THE REGION TONIGHT AND SATURDAY RESULTING IN FURTHER COOLING AND A CONTINUED SLIGHT CHANCE OF SHOWERS OVER THE CASCADE EAST SLOPES. THE WINDS WILL NO LONGER FAVOR UPSLOPE CONDITIONS OVER THE NORTHEAST MOUNTAINS BEGINNING SATURDAY AS THEY BECOME MORE SOUTHWEST SO THE EASTERN AND NORTHEAST MOUNTAINS WILL LIKELY NOT SEE ANYMORE SHOWERS STARTING SATURDAY. THIS GENERAL PATTERN WILL PERSIST ON SUNDAY INTO THE EXTENDED FORECAST PERIOD. IT WILL BECOME BREEZY TO WINDY AGAIN ON SATURDAY AND SUNDAY IN THE EASTERN COLUMBIA RIVER GORGE AND KITTITAS VALLEY. TEMPERATURES WILL COOL TO THE 70S IN THE LOWER ELEVATIONS BY SATURDAY AND CONTINUE ON SUNDAY. 88 LONG TERM...SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH THURSDAY...NORTHWEST FLOW WILL BE OVER EASTERN WASHINGTON AND OREGON SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT. THE MAIN LIFT WILL REMAIN IN CANADA...BUT WEAK WAVES IN THE FLOW MAY TRIGGER A FEW SHOWERS IN THE WASHINGTON CASCADES SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY. TUESDAY A TROUGH WILL DROP SOUTH OUT OF THE GULF OF ALASKA CHANGING THE UPPER LEVEL FLOW TO WEST TUESDAY THEN SOUTHWEST WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY. MODELS SHOW SOME DIFFERENCES IN TIMING/STRENGTH OF THE TROUGH BUT THE SIGNIFICANT MOISTURE AND LIFT REMAINS NORTH OF THE CWA. DID NOT CHANGE CURRENT FORECAST OF SLIGHT CHANCE POPS IN THE MOUNTAINS BUT WOULD NOT BE SURPRISED TO SEE CHANGES IN PRECIPITATION FORECAST. COONFIELD && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... PDT 84 54 73 51 / 0 10 10 10 ALW 86 57 75 54 / 0 10 10 10 PSC 88 56 79 53 / 0 10 10 10 YKM 81 52 74 51 / 0 10 10 10 HRI 87 56 77 53 / 0 10 10 10 ELN 77 51 69 50 / 0 10 10 10 RDM 83 48 70 42 / 0 10 10 10 LGD 84 51 69 45 / 10 20 10 10 GCD 86 48 70 43 / 10 20 10 10 DLS 80 55 74 55 / 0 10 10 10 && .PDT WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... OR...NONE. WA...NONE. && FOR ADDITIONAL WEATHER INFORMATION, CHECK OUR WEB SITE AT... WWW.WEATHER.GOV/PENDLETON 94/83
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 wildfire. Local standard time, as filed.
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