A wildfire began on June 8th and burned 500 acres east of Century High School in south Pocatello. the fire threatened several homes but evacuations were not required.
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 PIH wrote it up.
A wildfire began on June 8th and burned 500 acres east of Century High School in south Pocatello. the fire threatened several homes but evacuations were not required. The fire was human caused by stray bullets from target shooting in the hllls near the high school. Firefighters and rain had the fire under control by late in the day on June 9th.
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 Pocatello, ID wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 8, 1:03 PM MST, 57 minutes earlier.
Area Forecast Discussion National Weather Service Pocatello ID 203 PM MDT Thu Jun 8 2017 .SHORT TERM...Tonight through Saturday night. Cold front sweeps through East Idaho today, with breezy winds and slow increase in precipitation behind it. Radar mosaic shows precipitation moving into western portions of the state, shifting northeast. Models have settled on precipitation slowly spreading across the state late tonight through Friday, with best chances Friday afternoon association with thunderstorm threat along shortwave axis being ejected by the low. As upper low deepens and slides toward northern California, precip focus for Saturday is expected to slip north to central mountains and along the divide. Throughout the short term period and excepting locally heavier convective activity, precipitation amounts should remain light. DMH .LONG TERM...Sunday through Friday. Models continue to hone in on Monday and Tuesday being wet and cool. Prior to that, Sunday looks less stormy and warmer. Showers and storms are still expected across the central mountains and Upper Snake Highlands, but chances are still dropping overall along with rainfall amounts. There are still some differences to hash out (but not surprising that far out) with respect to where some of higher amounts will fall Monday and Tuesday. The general trend though was to pushing for higher chance and higher amounts, with the current target of Monday-Tuesday morning as being the highest. We are looking for SOME snow to accumulate in the high country, mostly on highest peaks and ridges. HOWEVER, snow levels drop to around 7000-7500ft in the Sawtooths ramping up to 9000-9500ft along the Wyoming border Monday morning. Later Monday and Monday night, they range between 7000-8500ft. By then, most of the precipitation will fall mostly east of a Challis- Montpelier line as the low pulls northeast into Montana. Wednesday through Friday, a fresh ridge of high pressure looks to build back in across SE Idaho from the west. The GFS was showing an embedded wave producing a shower or t-storm over the central mtns and Upper Snake Highlands Wednesday afternoon, but the EC was not really showing this feature, & the GFS backed off on this potential a bit with the 12Z run. Forecast still carries a very low chance (about 20%) of a shower/storm over northern portions of these mountains, but most of the region will be dry. Otherwise, dry conditions continue everywhere through Friday under the ridge. High temps warm several degrees each day, but are still somewhat cool by Thurs with the Snake Plain only reaching the low 70s. -Keyes/KSmith && .AVIATION... Wind has been the main aviation weather story today, affecting KPIH which has been gusting to 30+ kts all day, and KIDA where winds are on the increase and gusts to 25 kts are possible. Winds will drop off this eve. Otherwise, just some sct high clouds expected with VFR conditions at all terminals. Clouds increase and lower Fri as our next low pressure system approaches the west coast, and a chance of showers and t-storms returns to the forecast Fri afternoon just beyond the end of the 18Z TAF period. -KSmith/DMH && .HYDROLOGY...Rivers remain a significant concern across portions of East Idaho due to continued snow melt at higher elevations. The threat for precipitation through Sunday remains less of a concern as strong upper low remains off Pacific coast. But, temperatures remain warm so snow melt still continues. Have kept all prior flood warnings out, with a refresh on wording to the broad areal flood warning to include additional specifically named trouble spots. With two additional gages on the Teton/Snake Rivers within action stage but remaining below flood stage, opted for a broad reach hydrologic statement to highlight swift/high flows on those reaches. DMH && .PIH WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... None. &&
1 wildfire. Local standard time, as filed.
A wildfire began on June 8th and burned 500 acres east of Century High School in south Pocatello. the fire threatened several homes but evacuations were not required. The fire was human caused by stray bullets from target shooting in the hills near the high school. Firefighters and rain had the fire under control by late in the day on June 9th.
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