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 Jun 14, 7:30 AM PST, 4 hours 30 minutes earlier.
NORTHEAST OREGON/SOUTHEAST WASHINGTON FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENDLETON OR 830 AM PDT FRI JUN 14 2002 A FAIRLY MOIST SW FLOW ALOFT COMBINED WITH AN UNSTABLE AIR MASS WILL RESULT IN SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS TODAY. PRESENTLY...A SHORTWAVE TROUGH IS MOVING ACROSS NW OREGON AND WESTERN WASHINGTON. THIS WILL ACT AS A TRIGGER FOR THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON...MAINLY ALONG THE EAST SLOPES OF THE CASCADES. DOPPLER RADAR AT PENDLETON SHOWING WEAK RETURNS OVER THE SOUTHERN BLUES AND OCHOCO MOUNTAINS...AND VIRGA AND ALTOCUMULUS CASTELLANUS CLOUDS ARE OVER THE AREA THIS MORNING. THE MARINE AIR MASS WILL DEEPEN SOME TODAY WITH THE PASSAGE OF THE SHORTWAVE TROUGH...YET WILL HAVE A DIFFICULT TIME SEEPING OVER THE CASCADE PASSES. WITH THE THERMAL TROUGH EAST OF THE CASCADES...TEMPERATURES TODAY WILL BE NEAR OR SLIGHTLY ABOVE AFTERNOON TEMPERATURES ON THURSDAY. OVERALL...FORECAST ON TRACK AND ONLY MINOR UPDATES PLANNED. SMITH PDT 321 ALW 321 PSC 220 YKM 220 KPDT...VCP21/CSR21...OPERATIONAL. .KPDT...NONE.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 wildfire. Local standard time, as filed.
Lightning on June 13th started the Geneva Fire which burned 194 acres.
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, June 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: 5300800.