The USA Disaster Situation Report
The Daily USA Disaster Situation Report
For November 28, 2000
Christopher Effgen, Editor, host{at}disastercenter.com
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IN THIS ISSUE
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=> USA Daily Temperature Extremes
=> Current Active National Weather Service Warnings:
=> Severe Weather Probability Forecast
=> Precipitation Forecast, Excessive Rainfall, Heavy Snow And/Or Significant
Icing Forecast
=> USA Flood Report
=> USA Fire Report and Forecast
=> USA Earthquake Report
=> Yesterday's USA Severe Weather Reports
=> Guest Column- Martin County Coal Slurry Spill
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=> Article Federal Disaster Aid Authorized for Oklahoma
=> Article USFS Fire News -- A Thousand Thank-yous
=> Article USFS Fire News -- Fire Rehab Crews Make Progress on the
Bitterroot
=> Article USFS Fire News -- Fears of Contamination Stalled Hanford
Firefighters
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For November 28, 2000
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=> USA Daily Temperature Extremes
National Temperature Extremes
High Mon...80 At El Cajon Hemet And Monrovia CA
Low Tue...15 Below Zero At West Yellowstone MT
=> Current Active National Weather Service Warnings:
Active Warnings:
Updated Tue Nov 28 11:53:37 2000
Non Precipitation
Colorado
Kansas
Nebraska
VERY WINDY CONDITIONS WILL OCCUR TODAY ACROSS PORTIONS OF THE
TRI-STATE REGION...
North Dakota
WIND ADVISORY FOR SOUTHWEST NORTH DAKOTA TODAY...
South Dakota
.LOW PRESSURE OVER NORTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA...WILL INTO SOUTHERN
MINNESOTA BY THIS EVENING. A TIGHT PRESSURE GRADIENT BEHIND THE LOW
OVER THE DAKOTAS WILL CAUSE PLENTY OF WIND TODAY. WIND GUSTS OF 45
TO 55 MPH HAVE ALREADY BEEN RECORDED FROM BUFFALO TO RAPID CITY.
Wyoming
...WIND ADVISORY TODAY...
Winter Storm
California
...SIGNIFICANT RAIN AND SNOW EXPECTED FOR NORTHERN CALIFORNIA...
.RAIN...SNOW AND WIND WILL BE MOVING INTO THE SIERRA EARLY
WEDNESDAY. THE PRECIPITATION WILL BECOME HEAVY AT TIMES AND PERSIST
Colorado
SNOW AND BLOWING SNOW ADVISORY FOR THE NORTH CENTRAL MOUNTAINS
OF COLORADO ABOVE 9 THOUSAND FEET UNTIL NOON...
Iowa
Minnesota
WINTRY WEATHER CONDITIONS EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON...
A MIX OF LIGHT FREEZING RAIN AND SNOW IS EXPECTED TO MOVE ACROSS
SOUTHEAST MINNESOTA AND NORTHEAST IOWA THIS AFTERNOON.
Illinois
ACCUMULATING SNOW TONIGHT INTO WEDNESDAY MORNING...
Nebraska
LOW PRESSURE...NORTH OF HURON THIS MORNING...WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE
NORTHEAST DURING THE DAY. AS IT DOES...FREEZING RAIN AND SNOW
ASSOCIATED WITH THE LOW WILL MOVE NORTH AND EAST OF THE AREA BY
EARLY THIS AFTERNOON.
Nevada
STRONG WINDS AND SNOW WILL ACCOMPANY A WINTER STORM INTO
NORTHERN SIERRA WEDNESDAY...
South Dakota
AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE ALONG WITH WARM AND MOIST AIR RIDING UP
AND OVER THE COLD AIR IN PLACE ACROSS THE AREA WILL RESULT IN
WIDESPREAD SNOWFALL TODAY.
Wisconsin
WINTRY WEATHER CONDITIONS EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON...
=> Severe Weather Probability Forecast
The forecast probability of an event is by the stated percentage or greater
for the event, within 25 miles of any point for the area described.
Tornado Risk - Slight
There is less than a 2% probability of a tornado.
Hail Risk - Slight
There is a 5% probability of hail 3/4 inch or larger over central east Texas
and far central west to far
northwest Louisiana.
Wind Risk - Slight
There is less than a 5% probability of winds in excess of 50 knots.
Tomorrow's Risk -
There is less than a 5% probability of any severe weather tomorrow.
=> Precipitation Forecast, Excessive Rainfall, Heavy Snow And/Or
Significant
Icing Forecast
Precipitation Forecast
The 24 hour precipitation forecast is calling for over 1 inch of rainfall
over portions of coastal areas
of Washingtom, Oregon, and Northern California
The 24 - 48 hour precipitation forecast is calling for over 1 inch of
rainfall over portions of north
east Washington and north central California.
Excessive Rainfall Forecast
Rainfall is not expected to exceed flash flood values.
USA heavy snow and/or significant icing
The probability of heavy snow is low over central Minnesota east to west and
northwest Wisconsin
The probability of significant icing is less than 20 percent.
Tomorrow the probability of heavy snow is less than 20 percent
The probability of significant icing is less than 20 percent.
=> USA Flood Report
NATIONAL HYDROLOGIC SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HEADQUARTERS
09:00 AM EST TUE NOV 28 2000
FLOOD SUMMARY
RESIDUAL FLOODING
MOSTLY MINOR RESIDUAL FLOODING ON A FEW RIVERS IN TEXAS,
OKLAHOMA, ARKANSAS, MISSISSIPPI AND LOUISIANA FROM HEAVY RAINS
LATE LAST WEEK.
FLASH FLOODING:
THERE WAS NO FLOOD/FLASH FLOOD AND/OR URBAN AND SMALL STREAM
FLOOD ADVISORIES ISSUED DURING THE PAST DAY.
RIVER FLOODING:
RIVERS AND STREAMS WITH LOCATIONS EITHER ABOVE FLOOD STAGE OR
EXPECTED TO RISE ABOVE FLOOD STAGE INCLUDE (IN ALPHABETICAL
ORDER, BY STATE):
ARKANSAS: THE CACHE AND OUACHITA RIVERS
ILLINOIS: THE EMBARRAS AND LITTLE WABASH RIVERS
LOUISIANA: THE CALCASIEU RIVER, BAYOU DORCHEAT
MINNESOTA: THE RED LAKE RIVER
ICE JAM CONTINUES TO CAUSE MINOR FLOODING
MISSISSIPPI: THE UPPER BIG BLACK AND BIG SUNFLOWER RIVERS
TEXAS: THE GUADALUPE AND SULPHUR RIVERS; BLACK CYPRESS
BAYOU; WHITE OAK AND LAKE FORK CREEKS
=> USA Fire Report and Forecast
Not Current
=> USA Earthquake Report
UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY
NATIONAL EARTHQUAKE INFORMATION CENTER
GOLDEN, COLORADO
LISTS OF U.S. EARTHQUAKES IN THE LAST 30 HOURS
Prepared by USGS/NEIC 2000 NOV 28 at 00:15 UTC
EARTHQUAKES IN WEST CENTRAL UNITED STATES
(35.8 TO 40.3 N, 102.0 TO 125.0 W)
Date Time (UTC) Lat Long Depth Magnitude
2000 NOV 27 07:34:15.00 38.8 N 112.1 W 0 km 2.9
NEAR Richfield, Utah
EARTHQUAKES IN STATE OF ALASKA
Date Time (UTC) Lat Long Depth Magnitude
2000 NOV 27 11:46:13.92 51.2 N 130.3 W 10 km 3.9
125 miles WNW of Port Hardy, BC, Canada
=> Yesterday's USA Severe Weather Reports
Note: All data is considered preliminary
Tornado Reports
No reports received
Hail Reports
No reports received
Wind Reports
No reports received
Fields marked UNK are unknown
All Times UTC
Wind Gusts in MPH
Hail Sizes in 1/100 of an Inch (75 = 0.75")
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=> Federal Disaster Aid Authorized for Oklahoma
Washington, November 27, 2000 -- The head of the Federal Emergency
Management Agency
announced today that federal disaster aid has been made available for
Oklahoma to help families and
communities recover from the storms and flooding that hit the state late
last month.
FEMA Director James Lee Witt said the assistance was authorized under a
major disaster
declaration issued for the state by President Clinton. The declaration
covers damage to private and
public property from the storms and flooding that occurred over the period
of October 21-29.
Immediately after the President's action, Witt designated the counties of
Caddo and Grady eligible
for aid to stricken residents and business owners.
The assistance, to be coordinated by FEMA, can include grants to help pay
for temporary housing,
minor home repairs and other serious disaster-related expenses. Low-interest
loans from the U.S.
Small Business Administration also will be available to cover residential
and business losses not fully
compensated by insurance.
Additionally, Witt said federal funds will be provided to pay affected local
governments 75 percent
of the eligible cost for repairing or replacing damaged public facilities in
the counties of Caddo,
Carter, Comanche, Cotton, Grady, Jefferson, Kiowa, McClain and Tillman. The
declaration also
makes cost-shared funding available to the state for approved projects that
reduce future disaster
risks.
Witt indicated that additional designations may be made later if requested
by the state and warranted
by the results of further damage assessments. He named Joe D. Bray of FEMA
to coordinate the
federal relief effort.
Bray said affected residents and business owners in Caddo and Grady counties
can begin the
disaster application process by calling 1-800-462-9029, or 1-800-462-7585
(TTY) for the hearing
and speech impaired. The toll-free telephone numbers will be available
starting Tuesday, November
28, from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. seven days a week until further notice.
=> USFS Fire News -- A Thousand Thank-yous
NOVEMBER 27 -- MISSOULA, MT: This Thanksgiving, Kathleen McCart remembered
the
thanks to firefighters - thousands of thank-yous, for the efforts to fight
fires in Montana and across
the West - from all over.
The thank-you messages began by telephone, according to a story in the
Missoulian, and were
initially handled by staff on the Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest. The
messages were intended
for the thousands of firefighters on the line in western Montana.
"What people really wanted, though, was to shake somebody's hand," said
McCart, who worked as
a fire information officer this season. "They wanted to say thank you."
She added a link to the Forest Service's regional fire information website
and called it "firefighter
thank-yous." Then the electronic handshakes and hugs started arriving by the
thousands. Thank you,
they said, for saving our homes and forests. Thank you for your courage. For
spending the summer
away from your own homes and families. For working so hard for so long.
"People were just overwhelmingly grateful for almost anything that anyone
did," said McCart. From
the end of August through September, she collected thank-you notes -
thousands and thousands of
them from all over the globe. Some anonymous. Some hoping for replies. Some
sent to all who might
be listening, others carefully addressed to a faraway brother, sister or
sweetheart. And every day,
hundreds more arrived. In October McCart returned to her regular job,
tending computers in the
Forest Service's regional headquarters in Missoula. But traffic to her
website continues; it's online at
www.fs.fed.us/r1/people/fires/feedback-full.html and includes thanks to
firefighters from all over the
world. The news story is also online, courtesy of the Missoulian.
=> USFS Fire News -- Fire Rehab Crews Make Progress on the Bitterroot
NOVEMBER 27 -- MISSOULA, MT: Rehab work completed by two teams of employees
and
volunteers on the Bitterroot National Forest has helped stabilize soils to
minimize flood and landslide
threats following the fires that ravaged the area this year. The Burned Area
Emergency Rehabilitation
(BAER) team and the Bitterroot Interagency Recovery team have worked on soil
stabilization and
organized volunteer efforts on both private and public land; they've also
provided landowners with
information for recovery efforts on their land, according to a report in the
Missoulian. The teams
included 400 volunteers who spent 2500 hours working on rehab projects,
which have included:
Replacing 175 culverts destroyed by fire or too small to handle increased
runoff caused by the fires
Stabilizing slopes on 4750 acres, 30 miles of trails, and 466 miles of roads
Rehabilitating 200 miles of fireline with mulch and seed
Mulching 117 acres (equivalent to 106 football fields) with straw
Aerial seeding of 213 acres and hand seeding of 54 acres
Stabilizing 20 miles of stream channels
=> USFS Fire News -- Fears of Contamination Stalled Hanford
Firefighters
NOVEMBER 27 -- YAKIMA, WA: Concerns about radioactive contamination delayed
for about
five hours the deployment of some firefighters during the Hanford Nuclear
Reservation wildfire that
burned nearly 300 square miles in June, according to a report released by
the U.S. Department of
Energy. The Oregonian reported that labeling of contaminated areas was
adequate, but relaying
information about risks to fire commanders was not. Keith Benguiat, director
of engineering and
safety for the DOE in Richland, said that information given to the incident
command center indicated
that there was mass contamination at the Hanford site. Requests for
additional firefighters were
initially declined.
The fire burned 164,000 acres in about 72 hours. When Hanford officials
provided the command
center with a briefing paper showing that dangerous areas were labeled and
identified, additional
crews were deployed. The delay was about five hours.
"It did not make a significant difference fighting the fire in terms of what
was burned," Benguiat said.
The fire at times burned close to waste storage areas, including the 200
Area, where the site's most
lethal nuclear waste is buried underground. Firefighters who battled the
blaze were not exposed to
detectable levels of radiation, based on preliminary testing results. Of
approximately 700
non-Hanford firefighters, about 200 requested test kits to check for
radioactivity. Of the 111
recently analyzed, none showed any detectable levels of contamination.
Energy Department investigators said the agency should evaluate and improve
its emergency
response processes when outside state and federal agencies are involved and
that it should improve
emergency communications. There has been speculation that more aggressive
firefighting in the
ecologically sensitive area where the fire started could have stopped the
blaze, but a review of the
fire concluded that was not the case. The story's online from the Oregonian.
=> Space Weather Alerts and Warnings Issued in the last 24 Hours
Magnetic A-Index >=30 Watch for 29 Nov 2000 UT
Comment: None
Magnetic A-Index >=20 Watch for 30 Nov 2000 UT
Comment: None
Magnetic K-Index of 4 Observed 27 Nov 2000 from 1800 to 2100 UT
Comment: None
The following Warning was CONTINUED at 2311 UT on 27 Nov 2000
Proton Event >10MeV {at} >=10pfu Warning valid from 25 Nov 2000 0650 to
1500 UT
Comment: Continued until 15:00 UT on 30 Nov.
The following Warning was CONTINUED at 0110 UT on 28 Nov 2000
Proton Event >10MeV {at} >=10pfu Warning valid from 25 Nov 2000 0650 to
1500 UT
Comment: None
The following Alert ENDED at 0600 UT on 28 Nov 2000
Magnetic A-Index >=30 Observed 27 Nov 2000 0600 UT
Comment: None
Magnetic K-Index of 5 Warning valid from 28 Nov 2000 0900 to 2359 UT
Comment: None
Magnetic K-Index of 5 Observed 28 Nov 2000 from 0600 to 0900 UT
Comment: None
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FIRES IN MONTANA
Montana
Several heat signatures are visible from fires burning in western Montana.
Some of these may be
hotspots from the summer's wildfires.
http://www.osei.noaa.gov/Events/Fires/US_Northwest/FHSusMT331_N4.jpg
TROPICAL CYCLONE 03B
Bay of Bengal
Tropical cyclone 03B was located northeast of Sri Lanka near 11.0 N 85.8E at
12:00 UTC. 03B
has been moving in a west-northwesterly direction
at 11 knots with maximum sustained winds estimated at 45 knots, gusts to 55
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