A Red Flag Warning for dry lightning was issued for most of southwest and southcentral Oregon at 1000 LDT on 07/20/99. The coast and the Cascade/Siskiyou mountains were excluded.
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Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
The episode as NWS MFR wrote it up.
A Red Flag Warning for dry lightning was issued for most of southwest and southcentral Oregon at 1000 LDT on 07/20/99. The coast and the Cascade/Siskiyou mountains were excluded. This warning verified with at least 5 dry-lightning ignited fires reported in Jackson County alone. On the east side of the Cascades, two dry-lightning ignited fires were reported in the Winema National Forest and another was reported near Fort Rock, Oregon. The warning was cancelled at 2110 LDT.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
3 wildfire. Local standard time, as filed.
The Medford Mail Tribune reported at least five dry lightning ignited fires in Jackson County.
The Klamath Falls Herald and News reported 3 more lightning ignited fires. See below.
See above and below.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Oregon in 1999Every state in 1999This day in weather historyWarnings in Oregon, July 1999
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5711043, 5711124, 5711125.