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National Situation Update: Saturday, June 10, 2006

Homeland Security Threat Level: YELLOW (ELEVATED).

Significant National Weather

West: Isolated to widely scattered thunderstorms are forecast for the weekend. A few could turn severe. Expect high temperatures across the Intermountain West this weekend with temperatures ranging from the 80s in the upper Snake River Valley and lower elevations of Wyoming to the 90s and 100s in the Desert Southwest.

Midwest: A stationary front will produce unsettled weather conditions from the central Plains to Kentucky and Tennessee. Thunderstorms are forecast from northern and central Plains to the Ohio Valley. Some severe thunderstorms are possible with damaging wind gusts and hail.

South: Thunderstorms are possible across the southern Appalachians and over southern Florida but much of the South will be hot and dry this weekend.

Northeast: A low pressure system just off the New England Coast will produce rain over most of New England and eastern New York. Eastern Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Maine will receive most of the precipitation with one to two inches of rain by this evening producing localized flooding. (National Weather Service, Media sources)

Tropical Activity

Atlantic: No tropical storm activity.

Caribbean Sea: A broad area of low pressure centered between Honduras and western Cuba has changed little in organization during the past few hours. However, conditions appear to be favorable for this system to become a tropical depression or a tropical storm during the next 12 to 24 hours. This system is expected to move northward across extreme western Cuba and the Yucatan channel bringing squalls and additional rains to the Cayman Islands and portions of Cuba. An Air Force reconnaissance aircraft is scheduled to investigate this system this afternoon.

Pacific: No tropical storm activity. (USDOC/NOAA/NWS, National Hurricane Center, Central Pacific Hurricane Center, and the Joint Typhoon Warning Center)

Earthquake Activity

No new activity (FEMA HQ)

Preliminary Damage Assessments

No new activity (FEMA HQ)

Wildfire Update

National Preparedness Level is 2 (On a scale of 1 to 5)

Initial attack activity was moderate nationally with 223 new fires reported. Nine new large fires were reported, three each in the Southern and Eastern Great Basin Areas, two in the Southwest Area and one in the Alaska Area. Nine large fires were contained, three each in the Southern and Eastern Great Basin Areas, and one each in the Rocky Mountain, Southwest and Western Great Basin Areas. Very high to extreme fire indices were reported in Alaska, Arizona, Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, New Mexico, Montana, Utah and North Dakota. (National Interagency Fire Center, NWS, Storm Prediction Center, media sources)

Disaster Declaration Activity

No new activity (FEMA HQ)