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Red Flag Warning 15, NWS Medford, OR

August 3, 2025Harney County, Klamath County, Lake County, Oregon

NWS Medford, OR issued this red flag warning at Aug 3, 2025, 6:37 AM PDT for Harney County, Klamath County, Lake County, Oregon. It took effect at Aug 3, 2025, 2:00 PM PDT. It was in force for 6 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 3, 2025, 6:37 AM PDT (13:37 UTC)
In effect from
Aug 3, 2025, 2:00 PM PDT
Expired
Aug 3, 2025, 8:00 PM PDT
In force
6 hr
Issued by
NWS Medford, OR

Counties Harney County, OR, Klamath County, OR, Lake County, OR

The radar

The Medford radar (KMAX), 213 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:35 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this red flag warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Medford, OR wrote its last area forecast discussion before this red flag warning went out at Aug 2, 2:23 PM PDT, 16 hours 14 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 2, 2:23 PM PDT, 16 hours 14 minutes before
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The office that day

Everything else NWS Medford, OR issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 3, 12:25 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementMFRKlamath35 min
Aug 3, 12:30 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMFRKlamath14 min
Aug 3, 2:27 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementMFRKlamath33 min
Aug 3, 2:31 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementMFR29 min
Aug 3, 2:38 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementMFRKlamath37 min
Aug 3, 3:00 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementMFR30 min
Aug 3, 4:10 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementMFR50 min
Aug 2, 5:54 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementMFRSiskiyou36 min

Nearby

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Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.