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 Pendleton, OR wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 23, 7:30 AM PST, 3 hours 30 minutes earlier.
NORTHEAST OREGON/SOUTHEAST WASHINGTON FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENDLETON OR 830 AM PDT TUE JUL 23 2002 LATEST SATELLITE SHOWED LOW PRESSURE OVER SOUTHWEST OREGON WHICH WILL HELP INITIATE CONVECTION TODAY. SURFACE DEW POINTS HAD RISEN INTO THE 50S AND COMBINING THIS LOW LEVEL MOISTURE WITH DAYTIME HEATING AND THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. LATEST FLP/LAMP GUIDANCE HAS TEMPERATURES SIMILAR TO THAT OF THE ZONES. I ANTICIPATE SKIES TO BECOME PARTLY CLOUDY THEREFORE NO CHANGES EXPECTED FOR CLOUD COVER AND AFTERNOON HIGH TEMPERATURES AT THE MOMENT. I EXPECT MORE SUNSHINE OVER PORTIONS OF THE EASTERN FORECAST AREA THAT INCLUDES LA GRANDE. THEREFORE I WILL INCREASE AFTERNOON HIGH TEMPERATURES HERE AND CHANGE OVERNIGHT SPOT LOWS FOR THE FOOTHILLS TO MATCH UP WITH ZONES. PDT 223 ALW 223 PSC 123 YKM 122 KPDT...VCP21...OPERATIONAL. .KPDT...NONE.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 wildfire. Local standard time, as filed.
The Cache Mountain Fire, sparked by lightning, consumed 4,200 acres and 11 structures.
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: 5307263.