The Glade Creek fire occurred south of Mabton in Yakima county Washington.
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The Glade Creek fire occurred south of Mabton in Yakima county 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 Pendleton, OR wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Sep 7, 6:35 PM PST, 1 hour 35 minutes earlier.
Area Forecast Discussion National Weather Service Pendleton OR 735 PM PDT Fri Sep 7 2018 .SHORT TERM...Tonight and Saturday...A small cold front is moving across western Washington this evening which is triggering some convective instability ahead of it. Radars are showing convective showers and a few thunderstorms over the Washington Cascades and eastern slopes at this time. Kittitas county stands the best chance of seeing some thunderstorms this evening, otherwise the convective threat will shift east across Washington mainly north of I-90 overnight ahead of the cold front. The cold front will have a narrow band of precipitation associated with it as it passes over the northern portion of the forecast area overnight before exiting into Idaho early Saturday morning with just light amounts of precipitation on the order of a couple hundreths. Forecast was updated with adjust some precipitation chances overnight. . && .PREV DISCUSSION... /issued 215 PM PDT Fri Sep 7 2018/ SHORT TERM...Tonight through Monday. Main emphasis of the forecast will be cooler weather across the region this weekend into next week. Upper low and cold front are approaching the Pacific northwest today. Satellite also shows mid and high level clouds moving across Oregon this afternoon. The cold front will push through the forecast area tonight with mostly cloudy skies and scattered showers. The showers will be primarily over the Cascades and northeast Oregon mountains. Westerly winds will increase as well. Some lingering clouds and a few mountain showers Saturday morning then clearing by afternoon. Temperatures about 5-15 degrees cooler than today. Upper low offshore Sat night into Sunday with a southwesterly flow aloft. Partly to mostly cloudy skies. Another front will move across the area Sun night into Monday with another chance of showers. Once again precip will be focused over the mountains. Temperatures closer to normal for early September with highs in the 70s to lower 80s and lows in the 40s to mid 50s. Expect significant improvement in air quality this weekend as westerly flows pushes smoke and haze out of the region. 94 LONG TERM...Monday night through Friday. The remnants of a frontal system will be dropping south over the area Monday night with southwest flow returning for Tuesday and through much of the rest of the week. An upper low will be moving south along the coast of Washington on Tuesday and Tuesday night with another weak front to move through the region on Wednesday/Wednesday night. Most of the moisture gets wrung out on the Cascades with some showers possible over the Blues and Wallowa mountains with an open trough moving through on Thursday. It will be breezy at times with the frontal passages and a little cool with highs in the 70s with 60s in the mountains. 93 AVIATION...00z Tafs. VFR conditions will prevail through the forecast period. 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 with some light showers possible. There may be just enough instability for an ISOLD TSTM or two over central and northern Washington through 06z, but shouldn't effect TAF sites. Sct-bkn clouds at 050-120 will persist through Saturday morning then mostly sunny. Winds will increase && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... PDT 59 78 51 79 / 20 10 0 0 ALW 58 79 54 80 / 30 10 0 0 PSC 58 82 53 82 / 20 10 0 0 YKM 55 77 50 79 / 20 10 10 10 HRI 59 80 53 82 / 20 10 0 0 ELN 55 74 49 77 / 20 10 10 10 RDM 46 77 41 79 / 0 0 0 0 LGD 54 76 46 79 / 30 10 10 0 GCD 52 77 47 80 / 10 0 10 0 DLS 60 77 54 80 / 20 10 10 10 && .PDT WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... OR...None. WA...None. && 91/91/91
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 wildfire. Local standard time, as filed.
The Glade Creek fire burned in grass, sagebrush and wheat stubble south of Mabton in Yakima county. The fire burned a total of 12,765 acres. No structures were threatened and no evacuations were needed. Total cost of fighting the fire was around $300,000.
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