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 27, 8:52 PM PST, 3 hours 8 minutes earlier.
NORTHEAST OREGON/SOUTHEAST WASHINGTON FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENDLETON OR 952 PM PDT SUN JUL 27 2003 CONVECTION FROM EARLIER THIS EVENING WAS DIMINISHING DUE TO THE LOSS OF DAYTIME HEATING. THEREFORE I HAVE REMOVED POPS FROM ZONES IN THE FIRST PERIOD. OTHERWISE THE REMAINDER OF THE FORECAST APPEARS ON TRACK. PDT 0000 ALW 0000 PSC 0000 YKM 0000 .KPDT...NONE.
ORZ041>050-WAZ024>030-281200- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENDLETON OR 500 AM PDT SUN JUL 27 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST OREGON AS WELL AS SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST WASHINGTON. .DAY ONE... THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. ONCE AGAIN THERE WILL BE SOME THUNDERSTORMS OVER PORTIONS OF CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST OREGON THIS AFTERNOON. THESE STORMS COULD PRODUCE BRIEF HEAVY RAIN AND HAIL. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. THE POSSIBILITY OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE ACROSS CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST OREGON THROUGH THE SEVEN DAY PERIOD. HOT CONDITIONS WILL PREVAIL MONDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY THEN COOL DOWN SLIGHTLY AFTER MIDWEEK.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 wildfire. Local standard time, as filed.
The Frog Hollow fire was started by lightning and burned 752 acres. The cost of fighting this fire totaled 1.5 million dollars.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Oregon in 2003Every state in 2003This day in weather historyWarnings in Oregon, July 2003
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: 5372608.