The Tepee fire burned an area 10 miles southeast of Bend in Deschutes county.
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The Tepee fire burned an area 10 miles southeast of Bend in Deschutes 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 Pendleton, OR wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Sep 7, 9:20 AM PST, 1 hour 30 minutes earlier.
Area Forecast Discussion National Weather Service Pendleton OR 1020 AM PDT Fri Sep 7 2018 Updated Aviation Discussion .SHORT TERM...Upper level trough and cold front approaching the Pacific northwest. Satellite indicates some mid and high level clouds moving across Oregon during the day. Otherwise a mostly sunny and warm day with highs in the 80s. Smoke and haze will remain over the area. The front will move across the region tonight with mostly cloudy skies and increased westerly winds. There will be scattered showers as well mostly over the Cascades and Blues. A cooler airmass over the forecast area Saturday with high temps down 5-15 degrees under partly cloudy skies. Expect significant improvement with most of the smoke and haze cleared out. 94 AVIATION...18Z TAFs...VFR conditions will prevail through the forecast period. Patchy smoke will continue over much of the area, but isn't expected to reduce visibility below 6SM. A cold front will move across the region this evening with increasing west winds. Winds will be 10-20 KT with gusts to 25 KT with the front and a few hours after the passage before diminishing late tonight. Moisture will be limited and confined to mostly northern Oregon and southern Washington. Even there shower coverage looks to be too sparse to include in the TAFS. There may be just enough instability for an ISOLD TSTM or two over central and northern Washington, but shouldn't effect TAF sites. 93 && .PREV DISCUSSION... /issued 410 AM PDT Fri Sep 7 2018/ SHORT TERM...Today through Sunday...A southwest flow is expected to persist over the region and CWA today through Saturday night. At the present time there is not much moisture within this flow, however there will be enough moisture and instability in northwest portions, especially over the Cascades, for possible isolated thunderstorms this evening until just before midnight. Instability is not too strong, so any thunderstorms that do develop are not expected to become severe. However, cannot rule out a strong storm or two which may require a significant weather advisory. A cold front is then expected to move across the Pacific Northwest and the forecast area late tonight and early Saturday. This front will likely bring more isolated to scattered showers overnight tonight and early Saturday morning. Then there will be lingering showers over the far northeast mountains and the Washington Cascades, mainly in the morning Saturday, otherwise it will become dry again by afternoon with a westerly zonal flow aloft and a westerly flow near the surface. Dry conditions are then forecast for Saturday night and Sunday with cooler temperatures. It will become breezy to windy, especially in central and north central Oregon beginning this evening ahead of and with the cold front. Then winds are expected to diminish by morning, though breezy conditions may linger in the normally windier locations on Saturday such as the Blue Mountain Foothills and the Lower Columbia Basin/eastern Columbia River Gorge and the Kittitas Valley. There will be patchy to areas of smoke from regional wildfires today, but then the cold front moving in from the west will push the smoke out of the CWA and air quality conditions will improve for Saturday and Sunday. Temperatures will be above normal for one more day today with lower elevation readings in the mid to upper 80s (70s in the mountains), and then it will be about 10-15 degrees cooler for Saturday. There will be a slight rebound on Sunday in temperatures but they will still be a little below normal. 88 LONG TERM...Sunday night through Friday...Medium range models are in general agreement on the weather pattern for next week. WSW flow aloft will continue with embedded shortwaves moving through the flow almost on a daily basis. However given the westerly trajectories moisture will be limited and rain showers will be mostly confined to the Cascade crest region. Still the weather will be more fall like with variable amounts of clouds each day and cooler temperatures. It will be occasionally breezy as the upper impulses move through. Highs will be mostly in the 70s lower elevations with 60s in the mountains. Lows at night will be in the mid 40s to lower 50s in the lower elevations with 30s to lower 40s in the mountains. Some of the higher mountains valleys could see their first freezing temperatures of the season. 78 && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... PDT 88 56 77 51 / 0 10 0 0 ALW 89 58 78 53 / 0 20 0 0 PSC 91 58 80 52 / 0 20 0 0 YKM 88 54 76 50 / 0 20 0 0 HRI 90 58 79 52 / 0 10 0 0 ELN 87 54 73 50 / 0 20 0 0 RDM 87 45 75 41 / 0 0 0 0 LGD 87 51 75 45 / 0 20 0 0 GCD 88 50 76 47 / 0 10 0 0 DLS 88 59 77 54 / 0 10 10 0 && .PDT WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... OR...None. WA...None. && 94
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 wildfire. Local standard time, as filed.
The Tepee fire burned in mixed grass, sagebrush and open timber, 10 miles southeast of Bend. The fire was caused by an abandoned campfire and burned 2,064 acres. Some evacuation orders were issued during the early days of the fire.
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