The Oregon Department of Forestry's Incident Management Team 2 (Incident Commander Chris Cline) and the Oregon State Fire Marshal's Office Incident Management Team Green (Incident Commander John Ingrao) were dispatched to and assumed joint incident command at noon on Sunday, June 8, 2014, of the Two Bulls Fires. These two fires, burning towards each other when first reported (Saturday afternoon,…
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The Oregon Department of Forestry's Incident Management Team 2 (Incident Commander Chris Cline) and the Oregon State Fire Marshal's Office Incident Management Team Green (Incident Commander John Ingrao) were dispatched to and assumed joint incident command at noon on Sunday, June 8, 2014, of the Two Bulls Fires. These two fires, burning towards each other when first reported (Saturday afternoon, June 7), are being managed as one incident, are located approximately 10 miles northwest of Bend, and burning in a mix of Deschutes National Forest and private lands protected by the Oregon Department of Forestry. The wind- and terrain-driven fires prompted immediate evacuations in areas west of Bend, as well as additional threats/evacuation notices. Evacuations and the threats to structures were downgraded within a few days, with the Oregon State Fire Marshal's Office Incident Management Team Green demobilized at the end of shift on June 10. On Saturday, June 14, 2014, responsibility for management of the Two Bulls Fire transitioned to a local Type 3 fire team. At the time of transition, no homes or structures had been damaged or lost as a result of this fire, however, the fire burned approximately 6,908 acres of public and private forestlands.
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 Jun 7, 1:10 PM PST, 35 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENDLETON OR 210 PM PDT SAT JUN 7 2014 .SHORT TERM...TODAY THROUGH TUESDAY EVENING. NO MAJOR WEATHER CONCERNS ARE ANTICIPATED THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT. THE FORECAST AREA WILL REMAIN UNDER A DRY WESTERLY FLOW FOR THE NEXT 48 HOURS WITH WARM AFTERNOON TEMPERATURES AND COOL OVERNIGHT LOWS. THE ONLY EFFECTS ASSOCIATED WITH A WEAK WAVE CURRENTLY MOVING ACROSS THE FORECAST AREA HAVE BEEN MID AND HIGH LEVEL CLOUDS AND AN ONSHORE FLOW STRONG ENOUGH TO BRING BREEZY WINDS TO THE KITTITAS VALLEY AND THE EASTERN COLUMBIA RIVER GORGE. WINDS WILL DIMINISH OVERNIGHT AND WILL BE RELATIVELY LIGHT ON SUNDAY. ANOTHER WAVE TRAVELING ACROSS SOUTHERN BRITISH COLUMBIA ON MONDAY WILL LIKELY CAUSE SOME MARINE AIR INTRUSION RESULTING IN WINDY CONDITIONS IN THE EASTERN COLUMBIA GORGE AND THE KITTITAS VALLEY BUT LITTLE TO NO EFFECT ELSEWHERE. ON TUESDAY...MODELS ARE ADVERTISING A FAIRLY STRONG SHORTWAVE TROUGH SWEEPING ACROSS WASHINGTON AND OREGON. THERE IS LIMITED MOISTURE WITH THIS SYSTEM...BUT A FEW SHOWERS ARE POSSIBLE ALONG THE WASHINGTON CASCADES. THERE IS A HINT OF ELEVATED INSTABILITY OVER THE NORTHERN HALF OF WASHINGTON. AT THIS TIME...CONFIDENCE IS LOW FOR ANY HIGH-BASED THUNDERSTORMS SO WILL LEAVE OUT OF THE FORECAST. THE BIGGEST IMPACT WITH THIS SYSTEM WILL BE INCREASING WINDS. FIRE WEATHER FORECASTERS WILL BE KEEPING A CLOSE EYE ON THE COMBINATION OF WINDS AND RELATIVE HUMIDITIES. AT THIS TIME...WE EXPECT THE HUMIDITIES TO INCREASE DURING THE DAY AND NOT MEET RED FLAG CONDITIONS IN THE COLUMBIA BASIN AND SURROUNDING VALLEYS. PATCHY BLOWING DUST HAS BEEN ADDED TO THE COLUMBIA BASIN AND BLUE MTN FOOTHILLS ON TUESDAY WHERE DRY CONDITIONS HAVE PERSISTED FOR A COUPLE OF WEEKS. WISTER .LONG TERM...TUESDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY...IT WILL BE WINDY ACROSS THE COLUMBIA BASIN AND BREEZY ELSEWHERE TUESDAY EVENING AS PRESSURE GRADIENTS STILL BE STRONG BEHIND AN EXITING TROUGH. SOME BLOWING DUST IS POSSIBLE DUE TO WINDS AND DRY WEATHER. DRY AND MILD WEATHER IS EXPECTED TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY AS A TRANSIENT RIDGE MOVES ACROSS WASHINGTON AND OREGON. WEDNESDAY EVENING AND THURSDAY A CLOSED UPPER LEVEL LOW WILL MOVE TOWARD THE PACIFIC COAST...REACHING THE SOUTHERN END OF VANCOUVER ISLAND THURSDAY AFTERNOON. THE FLOW WILL TURN MORE SOUTHERLY AHEAD OF THE LOW. THERE MAY BE ENOUGH MOISTURE AND INSTABILITY OVER THE MOUNTAINS TO COMBINE WITH OROGRAPHIC LIFT AND AFTERNOON HEATING FOR A SLIGHT CHANCE OF SHOWERS OVER THE EAST SLOPES OF THE CASCADES AND THE NORTHEAST OREGON MOUNTAINS. MODEL SOUNDINGS INDICATE SLIGHT ELEVATED INSTABILITY OVER THE NORTHERN BLUES AND WALLOWA COUNTY...SO A FEW THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE THURSDAY AFTERNOON/EVENING AS WELL. AS THE UPPER LEVEL LOW MOVES ACROSS WASHINGTON FRIDAY...THE ATMOSPHERE SHOULD DESTABILIZE ENOUGH TO ALLOW FOR A SLIGHT CHANCE OF SHOWERS OVER MOST OF THE CWA. BY SATURDAY...THE UPPER LEVEL LOW WILL MOVE EAST OF THE AREA AND WEST TO NORTHWEST FLOW WILL RETURN TO THE AREA. LINGERING MOISTURE MAY STILL ALLOW FOR A SLIGHT CHANCE OF SHOWERS OVER THE EAST SLOPES OF THE CASCADES AND NORTHEAST OREGON. COONFIELD && .AVIATION...0Z TAFS...VFR CONDITIONS WILL PREVAIL OVER THE NEXT 24 HOURS WITH INCREASING HIGH CLOUDS THRU 08/06Z. WINDS WILL BE AOB 12 KTS...EXCEPT AT KDLS. WINDS AT KDLS WILL BE 15-20 G28 THIS AFTERNOON AND DECREASING AFTER SUNSET. 76 && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... PDT 53 85 56 84 / 0 0 0 0 ALW 58 85 60 84 / 0 0 0 0 PSC 56 89 58 87 / 0 0 0 0 YKM 54 85 55 81 / 0 0 0 0 HRI 55 87 57 86 / 0 0 0 0 ELN 54 83 56 79 / 0 0 0 0 RDM 42 82 45 80 / 0 0 0 0 LGD 47 79 50 79 / 0 0 0 0 GCD 47 81 48 80 / 0 0 0 0 DLS 56 84 59 80 / 0 0 0 0 && .PDT WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... OR...NONE. WA...NONE. && FOR ADDITIONAL WEATHER INFORMATION, CHECK OUR WEB SITE AT... WWW.WEATHER.GOV/PENDLETON 85/76/76
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 wildfire. Local standard time, as filed.
InciWeb Report.
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