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 14, 7:30 PM PST, 4 hours 30 minutes earlier.
NORTHEAST OREGON/SOUTHEAST WASHINGTON FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENDLETON OR 830 PM PDT SUN JUL 14 2002 THE WEAK WAVE AND ASSOCIATED FRONT THAT PASSED THROUGH OVER NIGHT AND TODAY HAS STALLED OVER SOUTH CENTRAL AND EASTERN OREGON AND THE SOUTHEAST CORNER OF WASHINGTON. THUNDERSTORMS HAVE BEEN FORMING ALONG THE FRONTAL BOUNDARY THIS EVENING AS SEEN SATELLITE AND RADAR IMAGERY...SOME OF WHICH HAVE BEEN SEVERE. ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH TONIGHT. MOISTURE AND INSTABILITY ASSOCIATED WITH THIS FRONT WILL LINGER OVER THE MOUNTAINS FOR THE NEXT SEVERAL DAYS. PALMER PDT 11-- ALW 11-- PSC 1000 YKM 0000 KPDT...VCP21/CSR21...OPERATIONAL. .KPDT...NONE.
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENDLETON OREGON
835 PM PDT SUN JUL 14 2002
TIME(PDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0736 PM SENECA OR 1 INCH HAIL
07/14/02 GRANT REPORTED BY STORM
SPOTTER.
0755 PM 6 S CANYON CITY OR .5 INCH HAIL
07/14/02 GRANT REPORTED BY STORM
SPOTTER.The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 wildfire. Local standard time, as filed.
The Flagtail Fire, sparked by lightning, consumed 8,175 acres along with two structures. The fire was not controlled 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: 5307260.