The Lower Coyote Creek Fire began on August 9th, 2 miles to the southwest of Nespelem, due to an unknown cause. The wildfire burned directly west of the Greenhouse Fire from late July along the Columbia River.
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The episode as NWS OTX wrote it up.
The Lower Coyote Creek Fire began on August 9th, 2 miles to the southwest of Nespelem, due to an unknown cause. The wildfire burned directly west of the Greenhouse Fire from late July along the Columbia River. The fire burned 2,582 acres of grass and timber, with numerous road closures, but no known structures lost. The wildfire was fully contained on August 15.
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 8, 8:12 PM PST, 3 hours 48 minutes earlier.
Area Forecast Discussion National Weather Service Spokane WA 912 PM PDT Sat Aug 8 2020 .SYNOPSIS... Expect dry weather through the middle of next week as temperatures warm. The warmest temperatures look to be Monday and Tuesday. Dry and breezy winds return late Monday for the Cascades and spread across the Inland Northwest on Tuesday. Expect cooler weather to persist through most of the week with a small chance of showers near the Canadian border especially on Thursday. && .DISCUSSION... Updates this evening were minor adjustments to cloud cover and a few minimum temperature adjustments that had little to no impact on most of the forecast. Cloud cover associated with a disturbance that passed through the region today in on the decrease leading to clearing skies and cooling temps tonight that segue into a Sunday forecast of sunny skies and temperatures on the cool side of what would be considered normal for this time of year. /Pelatti && .AVIATION... 06Z TAFS: Cloud cover will continue to decrease overnight, regardless VFR conditions will prevail for the next 24 hours. Winds will decrease as well overnight and show a tendency to gust a bit in the afternoon and early evening tomorrow but with less intensity in comparison to today (Saturday). /Pelatti && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... Spokane 50 81 52 88 56 85 / 0 0 0 0 0 0 Coeur d'Alene 49 80 51 86 56 83 / 0 0 0 0 0 0 Pullman 46 78 48 85 52 83 / 0 0 0 0 0 0 Lewiston 58 86 58 91 61 91 / 0 0 0 0 0 0 Colville 46 83 47 89 49 87 / 0 0 0 0 0 0 Sandpoint 47 79 48 83 53 81 / 0 0 0 0 0 0 Kellogg 53 77 54 82 58 80 / 0 0 0 0 0 0 Moses Lake 54 87 55 93 56 89 / 0 0 0 0 0 0 Wenatchee 57 87 62 93 63 86 / 0 0 0 0 0 0 Omak 55 87 58 93 58 88 / 0 0 0 0 0 0 && .OTX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... ID...None. WA...None. &&
Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Spokane WA 854 PM PDT Sat Aug 8 2020 WAZ034-035-041-043-044-100400- Moses Lake Area-Upper Columbia Basin-Wenatchee Area- Okanogan Valley-Waterville Plateau- 854 PM PDT Sat Aug 8 2020 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...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY Dry and breezy conditions will again occur late Monday into Tuesday with renewed concerns for fire spread with any new or existing fires. IDZ001>004-026-027-WAZ031>033-036>038-042-100400- 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- Spokane Area-Northeast Mountains-Okanogan Highlands- East Slopes Northern Cascades- 854 PM PDT Sat Aug 8 2020 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for portions of North Idaho... North Central Idaho...North Central Washington...Northeast Washington and Southeast Washington. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT No hazardous weather is expected at this time. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY 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.
The cost of firefighting resources to contain the blaze was calculated at 2.6 million dollars.
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