A 600 acre wildfire broke out around 1330 PST on August 1st west of Highway 20, south of Winthrop near Rising Eagle Road. The fire's cause is still under investigation.
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 OTX wrote it up.
A 600 acre wildfire broke out around 1330 PST on August 1st west of Highway 20, south of Winthrop near Rising Eagle Road. The fire's cause is still under investigation. Firefighters were able to secure a containment line by August 3rd with mop up operations through the 5th of August. This fire was not part of the Carlton Complex.
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 Spokane, WA wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Aug 1, 12:19 PM PST, 1 hour 11 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPOKANE WA
119 PM PDT FRI AUG 1 2014
.SYNOPSIS...
VERY WARM CONDITIONS WILL CONTINUE WITH ISOLATED TO SCATTERED
SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS EXPECTED THROUGH SUNDAY. NO SIGNIFICANT
RELIEF FROM THE HOT WEATHER IS FORECAST THROUGH THE SEVEN-DAY
FORECAST PERIOD. HOWEVER, ONLY A FEW SPOTS WILL REACH THE
100-DEGREE MARK. THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THE NEXT SEVERAL
DAYS ARE NOT EXPECTED TO BE STRONG OR SEVERE BUT COULD RESULT IN
LOCALIZED HEAVY DOWNPOURS AND GUSTY OUTFLOW WINDS.
&&
.DISCUSSION...
REST OF TODAY: WE'VE MADE SEVERAL SIGNIFICANT CHANGES TO THE
FCST. MOST IMPORTANTLY DROPPING ALL FIRE WX WATCHES FOR THE
CENTRAL WA CASCADES, BUT UPGRADING THE WATCH TO A RED FLAG WARNING
FOR THE NORTHERN CASCADES AND THE METHOW AND OKANOGAN VALLEY
AREAS. THE SHORT-WAVE TROUGH LIFTING NE ACROSS THE CASCADES HAS
BEEN INEFFICIENT AS FAR AS LIFT COMBINED WITH ANTECEDENT
INSTABILITY TO PRODUCE SUFFICIENT LIGHTNING. A BIG FACTOR SEEMS
TO BE EXTENSIVE MID AND HIGH CLOUD COVER. THIS CLOUD CANOPY SHOULD
SIGNIFICANT INHIBIT THE SFC-BASED INSTABILITY FOR THE
CASCADES...WITH THE EXCEPTION OF THE NORTH CASCADES (METHOW AND
OKANOGAN VALLEY REGIONS AS WELL AS THE SURROUNDING HIGH ELEVATION
CASCADE RIDGES AND PEAKS). FOR THIS LATER AREA WE UPGRADED THE
FIRE WX WATCH TO A RED FLAG WARNING WITH THE ANTICIPATION THAT SFC
HEATING AND, THEREFORE, THE SFC-BASE INSTABILITY WOULD BE HIGHEST.
AND WITH SHORT- WAVE TROUGH AXIS OVER THIS LOCATION DURING PEAK
HEATING, SCATTERED LIGHTNING STILL LOOKS LIKE A DECENT CHANCE.
THE FLOOD WATCH REMAINS UNCHANGED...STRICTLY LIMITED TO BURN SCARS
ONLY WITH THE CURRENT FIRES. WE'RE NOT EXPECTING HEAVY PCPN THIS
AFTERNOON, BUT ANY AMNT COULD PRODUCE SIGNIFICANT DEBRIS FLOWS AND
AND RAPID RUNOFF. BZ
&&
.AVIATION...
18Z TAFS: THOUGH VFR WX IS STILL EXPECTED FOR ALL TAF SITES,
ISOLATED TSRA AT BEST WILL BE POSSIBLE ACROSS THE UPPER COLUMBIA
BASIN THIS AFTERNOON. THE CHANCE OF ISOLATED TSRA WILL BE FROM
KMWH...TO KEPH...KEAT AND INTO THE EAST SLOPES OF THE CASCADES.
THE OTHER AREA OF THUNDER WILL BE FROM KLWS NORTH TO KPUW. GUSTY
OUTFLOW THUNDER WINDS TO 30 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE TODAY.BZ
&&
.PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS...
SPOKANE 91 68 94 66 94 66 / 20 10 20 20 10 10
COEUR D'ALENE 92 63 92 63 93 61 / 20 20 30 30 10 20
PULLMAN 93 58 93 59 93 57 / 20 20 20 20 10 10
LEWISTON 96 70 98 71 100 69 / 20 30 20 20 10 10
COLVILLE 98 59 96 58 95 60 / 20 20 30 30 20 10
SANDPOINT 89 56 89 56 89 54 / 10 20 30 30 20 20
KELLOGG 89 63 89 62 89 60 / 20 20 30 30 20 20
MOSES LAKE 93 65 98 65 99 65 / 20 20 20 20 10 10
WENATCHEE 94 72 97 71 98 73 / 20 20 20 20 10 10
OMAK 96 69 97 67 98 68 / 30 30 30 20 10 10
&&
.OTX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
ID...NONE.
WA...FLASH FLOOD WATCH UNTIL 11 PM PDT THIS EVENING FOR EAST SLOPES
NORTHERN CASCADES-OKANOGAN VALLEY-WENATCHEE AREA.
RED FLAG WARNING UNTIL 11 PM PDT THIS EVENING FOR EAST
WASHINGTON NORTH CASCADES (ZONE 685)-EAST WASHINGTON
OKANOGAN/METHOW VALLEYS (ZONE 684).
&&HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPOKANE WA 418 AM PDT FRI AUG 1 2014 WAZ041>043-021400- WENATCHEE AREA-EAST SLOPES NORTHERN CASCADES-OKANOGAN VALLEY- 418 AM PDT FRI AUG 1 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTH CENTRAL WASHINGTON. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP ACROSS THE EAST SLOPES OF THE CASCADES...WENATCHEE AREA...AND WATERVILLE PLATEAU. SOME OF THESE STORMS WILL START OUT DRY...THEN TRANSITION TO WET THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HEAVY RAINFALL. THIS COULD LEAD TO LOCAL FLASH FLOODING OR DEBRIS FLOWS IF HEAVY RAIN FALLS ON RECENT WILDFIRE BURN SCARS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. IDZ001>004-026-027-WAZ031>038-044-021400- NORTHERN PANHANDLE-COEUR D'ALENE AREA-IDAHO PALOUSE- CENTRAL PANHANDLE MOUNTAINS-LEWISTON AREA- LEWIS AND SOUTHERN NEZ PERCE COUNTIES-NORTHEAST BLUE MOUNTAINS- LOWER GARFIELD AND ASOTIN COUNTIES-WASHINGTON PALOUSE- MOSES LAKE AREA-UPPER COLUMBIA BASIN-SPOKANE AREA- NORTHEAST MOUNTAINS-OKANOGAN HIGHLANDS-WATERVILLE PLATEAU- 418 AM PDT FRI AUG 1 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTH IDAHO... NORTH CENTRAL IDAHO...CENTRAL WASHINGTON...EAST CENTRAL WASHINGTON...NORTH CENTRAL WASHINGTON...NORTHEAST WASHINGTON AND SOUTHEAST WASHINGTON. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.
1 wildfire. Local standard time, as filed.
The Rising Eagle Road Wildfire threatened fifty homes and one home was lost in the blaze.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Washington in 2014Every state in 2014This day in weather historyWarnings in Washington, August 2014
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