The Division Road Fire, initially located 17 miles west of Othello, WA, was a human caused fire. This fire burned 720 acres.
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The Division Road Fire, initially located 17 miles west of Othello, WA, was a human caused fire. This fire burned 720 acres.
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 9, 9:36 PM PST, 2 hours 25 minutes earlier.
Area Forecast Discussion National Weather Service Spokane WA 1036 PM PDT Tue Aug 9 2016 .SYNOPSIS... A deep and slow moving low pressure system will move across the area through Wednesday. This low will bring cooler temperatures and the threat of showers and thunderstorms. A drying and warming trend will develop late in the week before the next chance of showers possibly Sunday. The hottest temperatures in the forecast will be Saturday with above normal readings in the upper 80s and 90s. && .DISCUSSION... Evening update: the upper low is on the move. WV/IR imagery shows it centered about near Lookout Pass this hour. The showers continue to wrap around it but as the low continues to shift east the focus for those showers will also begin to shift east. This evening the brunt are found in a couple areas: from Ferry county into the Upper Columbia Basin and over southeast Spokane/eastern Whitman county into the central Panhandle. These have decreased in intensity over the past few hours and precipitation rates are generally less than a tenth of an inch/hour. However there remains some isolated pockets were higher rates are depicted, particularly going east of Coeur d'Alene into the central Panhandle mountains. Shorter-range and high resolution models suggests the western-most area of showers will dissipate into the later evening/early overnight. However activity further across the northeastern mountains through central Panhandle will continue to form through the night. Yet again they should not be as intense as those that occurred earlier. Minor adjustments made to PoPs to account for some higher shower coverage for this evening across that Ferry to Upper Columbia Basin area. I also continued PoPs a bit further west on Wednesday morning per some guidance suggesting another lobe of showers may slip by before the main focus shifts into the northeast WA and ID Panhandle Mountains. Other adjustments made to lower overnight lows just a little bit. There was some though that there could some FOG in the northeast valleys. It is not typical for this time of year but there is a lot of low level moisture and were are in a cool airmass. However the wealth of cloud cover in place will make this harder to develop. It will be monitored but for now it was left out of the official forecast. /J. Cote' && .AVIATION... 06Z TAFS: An upper low will continue to pull away into Montana but scattered showers will continue to wrap around this feature through tonight into Wednesday morning, impacting mainly the eastern TAF sites. There is some risk for thunderstorms but the risk is slight. Conditions are expected to remain mainly VFR, but there is the potential for some low clouds/stratus to develop toward morning given the moist boundary layer. Through the later morning and afternoon the main risk of showers/t-storms will shift into the north and eastern mountains while the remainder of the area clears out. /J. Cote' && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... Spokane 53 77 58 85 60 88 / 50 20 10 10 0 0 Coeur d'Alene 52 75 54 84 56 86 / 50 20 10 10 0 0 Pullman 50 76 52 84 53 88 / 20 10 10 10 0 0 Lewiston 55 83 59 90 63 94 / 20 10 10 10 0 0 Colville 54 79 54 87 54 91 / 50 30 20 10 0 0 Sandpoint 52 72 51 80 52 84 / 50 30 20 10 10 0 Kellogg 50 70 51 79 54 83 / 70 30 20 10 10 0 Moses Lake 54 83 57 90 59 94 / 20 10 10 0 0 0 Wenatchee 58 84 61 89 64 93 / 10 10 10 0 0 0 Omak 55 85 59 91 62 93 / 20 20 10 10 0 0 && .OTX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... ID...None. WA...None. &&
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPOKANE WA 502 PM PDT TUE AUG 9 2016 IDZ001>004-026-027-WAZ031>038-041>044-110015- 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- 502 PM PDT TUE AUG 9 2016 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...TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY 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.
No structures were threatened or damaged and the estimated costs associated with mitigation/suppression of the Division Road Fire were $150,000.
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