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 7, 7:59 PM PST, 4 hours 1 minute earlier.
NORTHEAST OREGON/SOUTHEAST WASHINGTON FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENDLETON OR 859 PM PDT MON JUL 7 2003 UPPER WAVE HAS MOVED ONSHORE INTO SOUTHWEST OREGON THIS EVENING. AS A RESULT THE AFTERNOON DIURNALLY INDUCED CONVECTION HAS EXPANDED INTO A BROADER AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. EXPECT THE CONVECTION TO CONTINUE THROUGHOUT THE NIGHT...ESPECIALLY ACROSS OUR SOUTHERN AND NORTHEASTERN ZONES...AS THE MAIN DISTURBANCE MOVES ACROSS SOUTH OREGON. STORMS HAVE BEEN GENERALLY WET...BUT SOME HAVE PRODUCED VERY LIGHT AMOUNTS...WHILE STORM BASES HAVE BEEN GENERALLY 10000 FEET OR HIGHER. THE STORMS HAVE ALSO PRODUCED WIND GUSTS TO AROUND 30 MPH. THUS WILL CONTINUE RED FLAG WARNING FOR LIGHTNING FROM HIGH BASED THUNDERSTORMS AFTER AN EXTENDED DRY PERIOD. LIGHTNING STRIKES WITHIN FIRE WEATHER ZONE 631 SHOULD BE FEW IN NUMBER AND DO NOT EXPECT TO ADD THIS ZONE TO THE RED FLAG WARNING. UPDATES TO THE PUBLIC ZONES HAVE BEEN MADE THROUGH THE EVENING TO ADD AREAS TO THE SHOWER AND THUNDERSTORM COVERAGE. GKH PDT 0000 ALW 0000 PSC 0000 YKM 0000 .KPDT...RED FLAG WARNING TONIGHT FOR LIGHTNING AFTER AN EXTENDED PERIOD OF DRY CONDITIONS FOR PORTIONS OF FIRE ZONES 630...633...634...635...AND 638. THIS COVERS DESCHUTES...CROOK...GRANT...WHEELER...UMATILLA...UNION...WALLOWA... AND BAKER COUNTIES.
ORZ041>050-WAZ024>030-081145- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENDLETON OR 500 AM PDT MON JUL 7 2003 .DAY ONE... THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. LOW PRESSURE WILL APPROACH THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST COAST TODAY PLACING THE AREA IN A MOIST SOUTHWEST FLOW ALOFT. THE COMBINATION OF DAYTIME HEATING...ADEQUATE MOISTURE...AND A FAVORABLE REGION OF AN UPPER LEVEL JET WILL HELP TO INITIATE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS PORTIONS OF THE SOUTHERN BLUE AND WALLOWA MOUNTAINS DURING THE LATE AFTERNOON AND EVENING HOURS. AT THIS TIME THE STORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED TO BE SEVERE. BUT BRIEF GUSTY WINDS TO 45 MPH ARE POSSIBLE FROM SOME OF THE STRONGER HIGH BASE THUNDERSTORMS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. LINGERING MOISTURE ALONG THE BLUE AND WALLOWA MOUNTAINS WILL COMBINE WITH DAYTIME HEATING TO HELP PRODUCE ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS TUESDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING. OTHERWISE THE REMAINDER OF THE WEEK SHOULD BE PRECIPITATION FREE. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME. WEATHER SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER CONDITIONS ACCORDING TO STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURES.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 wildfire. Local standard time, as filed.
The Big Ridge fire was lightning sparked and burned 140 acres. The cost of fighting the fire totaled $25,000.
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: 5372607.