1 wildfire, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Every event with a place to put it; 1 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.
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 Pendleton, OR wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 12, 7:30 PM PST, 4 hours 30 minutes earlier.
NORTHEAST OREGON/SOUTHEAST WASHINGTON FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENDLETON OR
830 PM PDT FRI JUL 12 2002
SEVERAL STATIONS REPORTED RECORD HIGH TEMPERATURES TODAY AS A RIDGE
OF HIGH PRESSURE DRIFTED EAST OF THE AREA. HOT TEMPERATURES WILL
CONTINUE FOR ONE MORE DAY BEFORE THE HIGH PRESSURE SHIFTS EAST AND A
WEAK MARINE PUSH BRINGS SOME RELIEF FROM THE HEAT SUNDAY.
LATEST WATER VAPOR SATELLITE IMAGERY SHOWS AN AREA OF MOISTURE
ROTATING AROUND AN UPPER LEVEL RIDGE FROM NEVADA INTO SOUTH CENTRAL
AND EASTERN OREGON. A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPED OVER GRANT
COUNTY THIS EVENING AND MOVED INTO SOUTHERN UMATILLA COUNTY. SOME
STORMS OVER SOUTH CENTRAL OREGON HAVE MOVED NORTH INTO DESCHUTES
COUNTY. LIGHTNING STRIKES HAVE DIMINISHED...BUT NOT STOPPED. BLOWOFF
CLOUDS FROM THE STORMS HAVE INCREASED THE CLOUD COVER IN OREGON. THE
STORMS WILL DIMINISH LATER TONIGHT. ON SATURDAY ANOTHER STRONGER...
MORE UNSTABLE AND MOIST DISTURBANCE WILL PASS THROUGH THE EASTERN
OREGON AND WASHINGTON AND CREATE AFTERNOON THUNDERSTORMS.
THE CLOUD COVER WILL INHIBIT THE TEMPERATURES SO TEMPERATURES WILL
NOT BE AS HIGH ON SATURDAY. HOWEVER...IT WILL STILL BE HOT. ON
SUNDAY...A MARINE PUSH WILL BRING COOLER TEMPERATURES AND BREEZY TO
WINDY CONDITIONS ACROSS MOST OF THE FORECAST AREA. COONFIELD
PDT -230 ALW 0230 PSC 0220 YKM 0220
KPDT...VCP21/CSR21...OPERATIONAL.
.KPDT...A RED FLAG WARNING FOR THE CENTRAL OREGON AND NORTHEAST
OREGON MOUNTAINS FOR DRY LIGHTNING TONIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY
MORNING.The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 wildfire. Local standard time, as filed.
The Malheur Complex Fire was a lightning sparked fire that burned 19,367 acres. The fire was not contolled until August 19th.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Oregon in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Oregon, July 2002
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: 5307259.