1 wildfire, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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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 local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Portland, OR wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Aug 12, 2:00 PM PST, 0 minutes earlier.
NORTHWEST OREGON AND SOUTHWEST WASHINGTON FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PORTLAND OR 300 PM PDT SUN AUG 12 2001 VORTICITY LOBE LIFTING OUT OF CA THIS EVENING PROVIDING LIFT...HIGH LEVEL DIVERGENCE BUT RATHER HIGH LEVEL MOISTURE IN SOUTHERLY FLOW ALOFT. THIS SHOULD GIVE SCATTERED TSTMS TO EASTERN PAST OF DISTRICT WHERE MODELS SHOW DEEP INSTABILITY LAYER...BUT WITH EXPECTED INITIALLY DRY TSTMS A RED FLAG WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES IN CASCADES AND FOOTHILLS. OVER WESTERN PORTIONS DISTRICT ETA/AVN TIME SECTIONS DONT SHOW DEEP INSTABILITY ALOFT BUT ONLY SHALLOW HIGH LEVEL INSTABILITY CLOUDS INDICATED. STRONG MARINE PUSH INDICATED TONIGHT INDUCED BY UPPER TROUGH FOR WIDESPREAD MORNING MARINE CLOUDS AND COOLER AFTERNOON MAXIMUMS INLAND. MODELS ALSO SHOW ONSHORE FLOW CONTINUING TO INCREASE DURING DAY WHICH SHOULD MAINTAIN SOME AFTERNOON CLOUDS. OVER CASCADES A SLIGHT SHOWER THREAT REMAINS MON MORNING AS BACK EDGE OF UPPER LOBE VERY SLOW TO MOVE NORTHEAST OF AREA. MARINE AIR MASS BEGINS TO SUBSIDE TUE AS LOWER LEVEL FLOW TURNS TOWARD NORTHERLY...THEN WARM AND DRY ON TAP WED/THU AS UPPER RIDGE BUILDS. APPARENTLY OFFSHORE WONT DEVELOP WITH THIS RIDGE FOR NIGHT/MORNING CLOUDS/FOG NEAR COAST. EXTENDED MODELS IN BETTER AGREEMENT SHOWING PAC UPPER TROUGH KICKING NORTHEAST INTO BC FRI FOR ANOTHER MARINE PUSH AND COOLER INLAND MAXIMUMS. LOWER HEIGHTS AND ASSOCIATED COOLER CONDITIONS CONTINUING NEXT WEEKEND. WILLIS AST 1000 PDX 1100 SLE 2100 EUG 2100 .KPDX...RED FLAG WARNING OR/WA CASCADES THROUGH THIS EVENING.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 wildfire. Local standard time, as filed.
A lightning started wildfire burned 2719 acres in the Mt Hood National Forest in the area of Olallie Lake. Total cost of fighting the fire was $4.3 million. No buildings were lost and there were no injuries or deaths.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Oregon in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Oregon, August 2001
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: 5266765.