Lightning, Wallowa
- When
- August 24, 8:10 PM PST
- Where
- Wallowa County, 12 mi SE of Joseph
- Reported by
- NEWSPAPER
- Coordinates
- 45.580, -117.181 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Lightning Strike in Oregon, August 24, 2000
Lightning started a fire that grew to 3200 acres near Forest Service Road. This fire, along with several others in the area, forced the National Forest Service to close 200 square miles of the Wallowa Whitman National Forest to the public.
Where it happened
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- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 1
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.
What happened
The episode as NWS PDT wrote it up.
Lightning started a fire that grew to 3200 acres near Forest Service Road. This fire, along with several others in the area, forced the National Forest Service to close 200 square miles of the Wallowa Whitman National Forest to the public.
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
1 lightning. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Lightning
- A lightning strike that killed, injured or caused damage.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
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- Hail and Damaging Winds in South Carolina, August 24, 2000
- Lightning Strike in Oregon, August 24, 2000
- Lightning Strike in Virginia, August 24, 2000
- Flash Flooding in West Virginia, August 24, 2000
- Damaging Wind in Florida, August 24, 2000
- Flash Flooding in Ohio, August 24, 2000
- Flash Flood in California, August 24, 2000
- Damaging Wind in North Carolina, August 24, 2000
More
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Sources
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: 5173904.