m. PDT, Tuesday, August 5, burning six miles west of The Dalles.
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The episode as NWS PDT wrote it up.
On Wednesday, morning, August 6, 2014, ODF Incident Management Team 1 (Incident Commander John Buckman) was dispatched to the Rowena Fire, reported at approximately 9 p.m. PDT, Tuesday, August 5, burning six miles west of The Dalles. Joint command was established with the Oregon State Fire Marshal's Office, who dispatched OSFM IMT Green (Incident Commander John Ingrao) on this fire, and the Governor's Office also declared the fire a Conflagration Act on Wednesday morning, enabling firefighters and resources from other counties in Oregon to assist with structure protection on this fire.
On Saturday, August 9, structure protection resources associated with the Oregon State Fire Marshal's Office were released from the Rowena Fire
FINAL INFORMATION FROM ODF IMT 1:|At 1 p.m. PDT on Tuesday, August 12, the Rowena Fire was 90 percent contained and ODF IMT 1 returned management of the fire to the ODF Central Oregon District - The Dalles Unit. A local fire team will continue work on this fire, finishing any needed mop-up to achieve 100 percent containment and control, as well as patrolling and monitoring it through the end of fire season.
This Inciweb Site includes the FINAL information from ODF IMT 1 on this fire (news release, maps, etc.) and is no longer being updated, nor will there be any further information posted to this site. The data in the Basic Information, listed below, is effective Tuesday, August 12, 2014, at 1500 hours (subsequent to transition to the local team) and is from the FINAL Incident Status Summary (ICS-209).
As of August 12th: Mop-up continues on the 3,680-acre Rowena Fire, particularly on the west end above the homes on Highway 30 and in the area of McCall Point. Helicopters on Monday dropped buckets of water onto hot spots in the canyon below McCall Point; fire crews have limited access to this area, which is steep and dangerous due to rock slides and falling trees. | |Structures were threatened and some areas were evacuated.
The fire is now 90% contained and command of the fire is being transferred to a Type 3 Incident Management Team (IC Burin) at 1:00 p.m. today. ODF’s Incident Command Team #1 assumed fire suppression responsibility for the fire Aug. 6.
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 5, 7:25 PM PST, 50 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENDLETON OR
825 PM PDT TUE AUG 5 2014
.UPDATE...CIRRUS CLOUDS WILL PERSIST ACROSS CENTRAL THROUGH
NORTHEAST OREGON OVERNIGHT WITH MOSTLY CLEAR SKIES ACROSS THE
WASHINGTON PORTION OF FORECAST AREA. THERE HAVE BEEN SOME GUSTY
WINDS ALONG THE COLUMBIA RIVER AND THROUGH THE YAKIMA AND KITTITAS
VALLEYS. WILL UPDATE TO ADJUST CLOUD OVER OREGON AND SOME OVERNIGHT
TEMPERATURES. 93
&&
.PREV DISC... /ISSUED 305 PM PDT TUE AUG 5 2014/
SHORT TERM...TONIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY. A RIDGE OF HIGH PRESSURE OVER
THE TWO STATE AREA WILL KEEP MOISTURE AND SHOWERS OVER N CA FROM
REACHING OUR AREA TONIGHT. DESPITE SOME MID AND HIGH LEVEL CLOUDS WE
CAN EXPECT MAINLY DRY CONDITIONS INTO THURSDAY. THE MODELS WERE
COMING INTO BETTER AGREEMENT TRACKING A LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM INTO THE
PACNW FRIDAY. THE LOW PRESSURE WILL BRING SOME MOISTURE AND
COMBINING THIS WITH DAYTIME HEATING COULD PRODUCE ISOLD TSRA OVER
PORTIONS OF THE REGION FRIDAY AFTERNOON. AFTERNOON HIGH TEMPERATURES
SHOULD BE A FEW DEGREES COOLER TOMORROW AND FRIDAY.
LONG TERM...FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY...A WEAK TROUGH (ECMWF) OR
CLOSED LOW (GFS) WILL MOVE THROUGH THE CWA FRIDAY EVENING. THIS MAY
TRIGGER A FEW THUNDERSTORMS FROM CENTRAL TO NORTHEAST OREGON.
SATURDAY AND SUNDAY THE ECMWF RETURNS TO WESTERLY FLOW WITH A WEAK
RIDGE OVER WASHINGTON AND A CUTOFF LOW DEVELOPING OFF THE CALIFORNIA
COAST. THE GFS KEEPS A CUTOFF LOW DRIFTING EAST OVER EASTERN OREGON.
GFS ENSEMBLES COVER BOTH SOLUTIONS...WITH VARIOUS MEMBERS SHOWING
THE CUTOFF LOW POSITION IN A STRING FROM CENTRAL CALIFORNIA TO THE
WA/OR BORDER SUNDAY MORNING. CONFIDENCE IS VERY LOW IN POSITION OF
THE CUTOFF LOW...AND WEATHER DEPENDS ON THAT POSITION. DID NOT MAKE
MUCH CHANGE TO EXISTING FORECAST EXCEPT TO TREND TOWARD CLIMO AND
DIURNAL CHANGE IN POPS (HIGHER DURING THE DAY AND SLIGHT CHANCE
CENTRAL TO NORTHEAST OREGON) FOR THE REST OF THE LONG TERM PERIOD.
MONDAY THE ECMWF HAS A SOUTHERLY FLOW AND MONSOONAL MOISTURE OVER
CENTRAL TO NORTHEAST OREGON. THE GFS HAS MONSOONAL MOISTURE IN
NORTHERN CALIFORNIA WITH THE CUTOFF LOW IN IDAHO. EITHER SOLUTION
SHOULD TRIGGER A FEW THUNDERSTORMS FROM CENTRAL TO NORTHEAST OREGON.
THE GFS BRINGS THE MONSOONAL FLOW INTO SOUTHERN OREGON TUESDAY
EVENING WHILE THE ECMWF MOVES A WEAK TROUGH THROUGH WASHINGTON.
COONFIELD
AVIATION...00Z TAFS...SKIES WILL BE GENERALLY BE CLEAR EXCEPT FOR
SOME CIRRUS ABOVE 20000 FEET AGL. SOME CUMULUS HAS DEVELOPED OVER
THE MOUNTAINS AND MAY AFFECT KRDM AND KBDN. WINDS WILL DECREASE TO
BELOW 15 KTS AFTER 06Z EXCEPT AT KPDT AND KDLS WHERE WINDS WILL
PERSIST UNTIL 09Z. 76
FIRE WEATHER...THE RED FLAG WARNINGS FOR THE LOWER COLUMBIA BASIN
--WASHINGTON ZONES 641 AND 675 AND OREGON ZONE 641--ARE IN EFFECT
FROM 2 PM THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH 9 PM WEDNESDAY EVENING. A WESTERLY
FLOW ALOFT WILL CAUSE GRADIENTS TO TIGHTEN...AND WINDS HAVE ALREADY
INCREASED THIS AFTERNOON. THE AREA MOST LIKELY TO RECEIVE BREEZY
WINDS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING WILL BE IN THE EASTERN COLUMBIA
RIVER GORGE AND THE LOWER COLUMBIA BASIN ALONG THE WA/OR BORDER. AS
GRADIENTS CONTINUE TO TIGHTEN TONIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...A MARINE PUSH
WILL BE STRONG ENOUGH TO BRING 10-20 MPH WINDS FOR MOST OF THE LOWER
COLUMBIA BASIN WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING. AFTERNOON RH'S WILL
LIKELY BE IN THE TEENS ON TUESDAY AND IN THE MID TEENS TO MID 20S ON
WEDNESDAY. WEBER
&&
.PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS...
PDT 59 89 59 87 / 0 0 10 0
ALW 67 91 65 89 / 0 0 0 0
PSC 63 93 63 92 / 0 0 0 0
YKM 60 91 57 88 / 0 0 10 0
HRI 60 92 61 91 / 0 0 0 0
ELN 63 87 57 85 / 0 0 10 0
RDM 46 86 46 85 / 0 0 10 10
LGD 57 88 54 85 / 10 10 10 10
GCD 57 84 57 85 / 10 10 10 10
DLS 64 87 62 85 / 0 0 0 0
&&
.PDT WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
OR...RED FLAG WARNING UNTIL 9 PM PDT WEDNESDAY
ORZ041-044-503-507-508-510.
WA...RED FLAG WARNING UNTIL 9 PM PDT WEDNESDAY WAZ024-026>029-521.
RED FLAG WARNING UNTIL 10 PM PDT THIS EVENING WAZ520.
&&
FOR ADDITIONAL WEATHER INFORMATION, CHECK OUR WEB SITE AT...
WWW.WEATHER.GOV/PENDLETON
93/76/76The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 wildfire. Local standard time, as filed.
InciWeb information.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Oregon in 2014Every state in 2014This day in weather historyWarnings in Oregon, August 2014
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 530667.