This Fire started July 23rd between Addy and Gifford, Washington.
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This Fire started July 23rd between Addy and Gifford, Washington.
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 Jul 22, 9:50 PM PST, 2 hours 10 minutes earlier.
Area Forecast Discussion...UPDATED National Weather Service Spokane WA 1050 PM PDT WED JUL 22 2015 .SYNOPSIS.... Dry and locally breezy conditions are expected across the Inland Northwest through this evening. Aside from a very small chance of mountain showers and thunderstorms near the Canadian border, the rest of the week looks dry. A better chance of showers and thunderstorms returns toward the weekend, especially on Sunday. Temperatures will be more seasonal for the weekend...with below normal numbers for the wettest day on Sunday as the main wave crosses the region. && .DISCUSSION... Tonight: High clouds will continue to stream across the region tonight as convection continues to move across S ID and SW MT. The next trough set to move into the Inland northwest tomorrow is already nearing the west coast and spreading some clouds into the area as well. The main concern tonight will be to watch for the potential of some elevated convection moving into extreme southeast WA and the Camas Prairie/Lewiston/Clarkston areas overnight into early Thursday morning. Would expect similar results like what we saw late last night and early this morning...some sprinkles as best. /Nisbet Thursday and Friday: The weather looks mainly dry with cooler than average temperatures Thursday and Friday. Similar to last night, there will be a small chance of high-based showers across the Clearwaters, Camas Prairie and southern Shoshone county early Thursday morning. Forecast soundings show a sliver of elevated instability. A 500mb trough moving across the Cascades early Thursday may help to trigger some light showers or sprinkles out of 10-12 thousand foot cloud bases. Rain amounts for places like Lewiston, Winchester, and Clarkia will be a hundredth or two at most. Friday afternoon and evening may produce some light showers over the north Cascades and Okanogan Highlands. Again, marginal atmospheric moisture will limit precipitation amounts to almost nothing. /GKoch Saturday: Winds have been increased for Saturday, temperatures lowered, and shower chances increased. There is good agreement between the morning model runs that an unusually cool upper level trough will make its way into southern British Columbia and Washington on Saturday. The Polar Jet will dip as far south as southern Oregon by Saturday evening. The cool 500mb trough will drive a cold front through the Inland Northwest during the day Saturday. Post frontal mixing combined with an increasing cross Cascade pressure gradient should produce gusty winds especially by the afternoon and evening. Sustained winds of 15 to 20 mph will be a good bet with 850mb winds progged to be 20-25kts. Gusts of 30 mph look probable across the Columbia Basin, West Plains and Palouse. The Cascade Gaps will have the potential for 35 mph or more for Wenatchee, Vantage and Waterville. Fortunately, relatively cool temperatures should temper our fire danger a bit. Our continued on-shore flow today through Saturday should help bring our humidity levels above critical thresholds. Scattered showers and thunderstorms should accompany the front over the mountains of northeast Washington and northern Idaho. The NAM and GFS forecast weak to moderate instability. The air mass on Saturday afternoon will be more like an early June air mass. Thunderstorms should be "wet", and some locations north and east of Spokane will have a shot of decent rain amounts. /GKoch Saturday night through Wednesday...Long-wave trof axis placement remains off the coast with the eastern edge of the trof continuing to influence Eastern Washington and Northern Idaho through this interval resulting in forecast daytime high temperatures a few degrees on the cool side of what would be considered normal for this time of year and the resulting dynamic pattern allows for winds to remain on the lower side of breezy and generally gusty for much of the time interval. Significant shortwave features of note to traverse through this trof include a closed low that drops down into the trof Sunday/Sunday night with a moderately well maintained moisture source feeding into it along with the jet stream dropping for the most part to the south of the low and the area. The cold pool contained in the low is between two and three standard deviations on the cool side of normal at 500mb so I would consider it a significant cold pool. With the moisture,instability, and lift all there with this passing system it is marked with the highest pops for showers and thunderstorms, highest QPF, and coolest temperatures of the seven day forecast to be Sunday/Sunday night (and Monday for North Idaho). Low wet bulb zero heights associated with the cold pool may allow for an appearance of brief short lived accumulating snowfall at higher mountain elevations near the British Canadian Border. Monday (and possibly part of Monday night) some pops may linger for a bit longer in Northeast Washington and Northern Idaho as wrap around moisture from the lows west side continues to influence the area as the low moves through Central Montana and South Central Canada. Tuesday and Wednesday 500mb heights rebound but the flow remains somewhat progressive and zonal which suggests a generally dry forecast with a warming trend with continued potential for low end breezy afternoon and evening winds generally from the southwest. /Pelatti && .AVIATION... 06Z TAFS: High confidence in VFR conditions at all TAF sites through 06Z Friday. A weak cold front will produce a band of mid to high level clouds aft 09Z as well as high cirrus shield moving in from the south due to convection outside our area. There is a small chance for light showers near KLWS ahead of this front with higher confidence of showers, and possibly thunderstorms, further southeast toward the southern portion of the ID Panhandle. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... Spokane 56 80 57 81 60 80 / 0 0 0 0 10 20 Coeur d'Alene 54 80 54 80 58 80 / 0 0 0 0 10 20 Pullman 48 80 51 80 56 80 / 0 10 0 0 10 10 Lewiston 62 87 61 89 66 87 / 10 10 0 0 10 10 Colville 54 83 53 85 58 81 / 0 10 10 0 10 30 Sandpoint 47 79 48 79 53 77 / 0 0 10 0 10 40 Kellogg 50 80 49 80 54 78 / 0 10 10 0 10 30 Moses Lake 58 86 59 86 63 85 / 0 0 0 0 10 10 Wenatchee 65 86 64 86 65 82 / 0 0 0 0 10 10 Omak 58 87 57 86 60 83 / 0 10 0 10 10 10 && .OTX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... ID...None. WA...None. &&
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPOKANE WA 525 AM PDT WED JUL 22 2015 IDZ001>004-026-027-WAZ031>038-041>044-231230- 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-WENATCHEE AREA- EAST SLOPES NORTHERN CASCADES-OKANOGAN VALLEY-WATERVILLE PLATEAU- 525 AM PDT WED JUL 22 2015 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...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY No hazardous weather is expected at this time.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 wildfire. Local standard time, as filed.
This fire started on July 23, 2015 and burned 83 acres between the towns of Addy, Washington and Gifford, Washington as of July 27,2015. No structures were lost.
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