The Timm Ranch Fire, located 12 miles east of Bridgeport, WA burned 1,358 acres in Okanogan county.
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The Timm Ranch Fire, located 12 miles east of Bridgeport, WA burned 1,358 acres in Okanogan county.
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 Jun 7, 9:42 PM PST, 2 hours 18 minutes earlier.
Area Forecast Discussion National Weather Service Spokane WA 1042 PM PDT TUE JUN 7 2016 .SYNOPSIS... High pressure will be over the Pacific Northwest through the middle of the week. The record breaking heat will begin to relent by the middle of the week with periodic breezy winds and a chance of showers and thunderstorms. Best chances for thunderstorms and breeziest winds will be on Wednesday. The cooler and unsettled weather will linger into the weekend with high temperatures falling into the upper 60s for a number of towns. This is below normal values which are generally in the 70s. && .DISCUSSION... Tonight...Upper level ridge will finally begin to track out of the region as offshore shortwave trough heads inland. As of 2pm, the positioning of the shortwave was around 41n/134w, which was in good agreement with the 12z/18z models. By morning the shortwave will move onto the Oregon coast and will back the mid-level flow over our region to more of a southerly orientation. As this occurs we should see an increasing mid and high level cloud trend, at least near the Cascades. Otherwise we are expected a mainly dry and mild night. There will be some isolated showers and thunderstorms this evening, mainly over extreme SE Washington and NC Idaho, but the risk of them should decrease fairly rapidly after sunset. ...Strong thunderstorms possible by afternoon over SE Washington and NC Idaho... ...Gusty winds and low relative humidities expected over the Columbia Basin and Wenatchee area... Wednesday...The ridge of the past few days will finally exit the region and will be replaced by the aforementioned shortwave trough. This trough will push inland after sunrise initially pushing an elevated front through eastern Washington during the morning hours and pushing into the ID Panhandle by early afternoon. Model sounding indicate some decent mid-level instability associated with this front and it will likely produce some showers during the morning over parts of eastern Washington. The sub-cloud layer is expected to be quite dry and as such we expect to see more sprinkles than showers. Can't entirely rule out a strike or two of lightning as well, but risk isn't high enough to place in the forecast. By afternoon this feature is expected to extend from the northern tip of the Panahandle southwest toward the Blues. The clouds associated with this feature will likely inhibit chances for deep surface based convection, however ahead of it its a different story. Strong heating will develop over the southern half of the Idaho Panhandle and the SE corner of Washington while a ill-defined cold front will track over the Cascades. The combination of the heating and the approach of the cold front should be able to trigger some thunderstorms. Based on the model soundings, we could see strong thunderstorms develop, given CAPE values approaching 1500-2000. The main threat if thunderstorms form will be large hail, with a smaller risk of strong gusty outflows. We suspect even greater chances will occur just south and east of our forecast area, where there should be a greater daytime heating potential based on less threat of morning and early afternoon cloud cover. While we are not terribly convinced about strong thunderstorms over our forecast area, we are more concerned about gusty winds and low relative humidity values behind the cold front. Odds are good that we will see cooling over all locations tomorrow behind the front. Temperatures should cool by around 10 degrees with highs in the 80s. But RH values won't recover all that much. By afternoon we will likely be dealing with RH values bottoming out in the upper teens to mid 20s. But we will also see winds in the 15 to 20 mph range, especially over the Columbia Basin and into the Wenathcee Area. This is close to red flag conditions, but we probably won't quite hit the criteria. Nonetheless the winds combined with the low RH's will produce enhanced fire dangers and we will highlight accordingly in the fire forecasts. fx Wednesday through Tuesday: Frontal passage Wed evening will produce lingering isolated thunderstorms...some containing hail and gusty winds...across mainly the Camas Prairie and Nrn Blue Mtns surrounding Lewiston Wed eve. With the upper low just off the Pac Nw coast Thurs and Fri (moving little), a nearly stnry frontal band /mid-level baroclinic zone will stall over much of Ern Wa and help to keep showers and isolated thunder in the fcst Thurs through Friday. Model guidance is somewhat similar in bringing the offshore upper low inland by the weekend...again prolonger the showers and thunder threat for most zones. Expect a large cool- down by the weekend, with afternoon high temps falling to below normal values. Uppers 60s are in the fcst for the Spokane area. Even after the low moves east, a very progressive stearing flow brings yet another front and chance of pcpn into the area Mon and Tues.bz && .AVIATION... 06Z TAFS: Elevated showers with an isolated strike is possible through 12Z for the Cascades, Wenatchee area, Waterville Plateau and into the Okanogan Valley and Highlands. Confidence is low of anything actually happening and KEAT and therefore left it out of the TAF. -shra is possible elsewhere aft 18Z, but there is decent dry layer at the surface that needs to be overcome first. There is a threat for strong storms in KPUW and KLWS aft 22Z, but confidence isn't high enough to put anything in the TAF yet other than -shra. Winds will start to increase aft 21Z for KMWH and KEAT, with even stronger winds aft 00Z. Windy conditions will be possible from KEAT through the Columbia Basin and into the KGEG area through 06Z. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... Spokane 64 86 57 75 53 72 / 0 20 50 10 20 20 Coeur d'Alene 62 87 56 75 52 75 / 0 20 50 20 20 20 Pullman 61 85 51 73 48 70 / 10 30 60 20 20 20 Lewiston 67 92 59 80 55 77 / 20 40 60 20 20 20 Colville 61 85 55 78 50 75 / 0 40 40 10 20 30 Sandpoint 58 85 53 74 48 73 / 0 30 50 20 20 30 Kellogg 61 86 52 73 49 73 / 0 30 60 20 20 30 Moses Lake 63 89 55 80 52 76 / 10 20 20 10 10 20 Wenatchee 65 86 57 78 53 75 / 10 10 20 10 10 20 Omak 61 87 55 78 52 76 / 0 10 30 20 10 20 && .OTX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... ID...None. WA...None. &&
Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service SPOKANE WA 453 PM PDT TUE JUN 7 2016 IDZ003-004-026-027-WAZ031>033-090000- IDAHO PALOUSE-CENTRAL PANHANDLE MOUNTAINS-LEWISTON AREA- LEWIS AND SOUTHERN NEZ PERCE COUNTIES-NORTHEAST BLUE MOUNTAINS- LOWER GARFIELD AND ASOTIN COUNTIES-WASHINGTON PALOUSE- 453 PM PDT TUE JUN 7 2016 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for portions of North Idaho... North Central Idaho and Southeast Washington. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT No hazardous weather is expected at this time. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY Wednesday afternoon and evening will bring a cold front passage through the region. An unstable air mass will be ripe for potentially strong thunderstorms that may produce gusty winds...hail...locally heavy rain and frequent lightning. WAZ034-035-041>044-090000- MOSES LAKE AREA-UPPER COLUMBIA BASIN-WENATCHEE AREA- EAST SLOPES NORTHERN CASCADES-OKANOGAN VALLEY-WATERVILLE PLATEAU- 453 PM PDT TUE JUN 7 2016 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for portions of Central Washington...East Central Washington and North Central Washington. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT No hazardous weather is expected at this time. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY A cold front passage on Wednesday will bring windy conditions during the late afternoon and evening hours to the Cascade gaps and the western Columbia Basin. Very low humidity will combine with these winds to produce an environment conducive for fire growth on existing or new fires. IDZ001-002-WAZ036>038-090000- NORTHERN PANHANDLE-COEUR D'ALENE AREA-SPOKANE AREA- NORTHEAST MOUNTAINS-OKANOGAN HIGHLANDS- 453 PM PDT TUE JUN 7 2016 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for portions of North Idaho... North Central Washington and Northeast 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.
Official federal agency reports note that the Timm Ranch fire was human caused. Costs of suppression estimated at $30,000.
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