1 wildfire, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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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 29, 1:30 PM PST, 30 minutes earlier.
NORTHEAST OREGON/SOUTHEAST WASHINGTON FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENDLETON OR 230 PM PDT SUN JUN 29 2003 FIRE WEATHER...MINIMUM RELATIVE HUMIDITIES CURRENTLY RANGE FROM 10-25 PERCENT OVER MOST OF THE FORECAST AREA...EXCEPT 25-30 NEAR THE WASHINGTON CASCADES...YAKIMA AND KITTITAS VALLEYS. DEWPOINTS HAVE INCREASED FROM THE MID 40S TO THE LOWER 50S WEST OF THE TRI-CITIES. SURFACE GRADIENTS HAVE BEGUN TO TIGHTEN AND WINDS ARE INCREASING IN THE COLUMBIA GORGE AND KITTITAS VALLEY. A RED FLAG WARNING FOR LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITIES AND BREEZY WINDS HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR THIS EVENING FOR THE EASTERN COLUMBIA RIVER GORGE...NORTH CENTRAL OREGON...THE LOWER COLUMBIA BASIN...THE BLUE MOUNTAIN FOOTHILLS...AND THE YAKIMA VALLEY. LATER TONIGHT MORE MARINE AIR WILL SPILL OVER THE CASCADES AND INCREASE THE DEWPOINTS AND RH VALUES. ISOLATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOPED OVER THE COLUMBIA BASIN...FOOTHILLS OF THE BLUE MOUNTAINS...AND BLUE MOUNTAINS. GENERAL FORECAST DISCUSSION...AN UPPER LEVEL TROUGH OVER THE EASTERN PACIFIC WILL MOVE EAST AND DISPLACE THE RIDGE AS THE DOMINANT WEATHER SYSTEM FOR THE NEXT FEW DAYS. MOIST UNSTABLE AIR IS MOVING INTO THE AREA AND A WEAK DISTURBANCE IS MOVING THROUGH OREGON/WASHINGTON TRIGGERING SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS. THESE STORMS ARE MOVING NORTH. ANOTHER WAVE WILL MOVE THROUGH LATER THIS EVENING...BUT CONVECTION WILL BE LIMITED TO MOUNTAIN SHOWERS AFTER THE LOSS OF DAYTIME HEATING. MORE STABLE MARINE AIR WILL MOVE INTO THE AREA OVERNIGHT. A WEAK UPPER LEVEL TROUGH MAY TRIGGER A FEW SHOWERS IN THE MOUNTAINS TUESDAY. COONFIELD IN THE EXTENDED A TROUGH OF LOW PRESSURE WILL REMAIN JUST OFF THE COAST OF THE PACNW THROUGH THE END OF THE WEEK. THE TROUGH EDGES INLAND THIS WEEKEND WITH A WEAK DISTURBANCE DRIFTING ACROSS THE AREA BOTH SAT/SUN. ALTHOUGH THERE IS A HINT OF SOME MID LEVEL MOISTURE...I AM NOT CONFIDENT THAT PCPN WILL FALL AND WILL GO WITH A DRY FORECAST. A SLOW WARMING TREND IS EXPECTED INTO THE WEEKEND AS AFTN HIGHS RISE SLIGHTLY ABOVE NORMAL. PDT 21-- ALW 21-- PSC 21-- YKM 11-- .KPDT...RED FLAG WARNING FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 631 AND 675 FOR THIS EVENING.
ORZ041>050-WAZ024>030-301200- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENDLETON OR 500 AM PDT SUN JUN 29 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST OREGON AS WELL AS SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST WASHINGTON. .DAY ONE... EXTREMELY DRY CONDITIONS ARE PERSISTING ACROSS THE REGION. MEANWHILE A SURFACE LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM WILL MOVE ACROSS THE AREA THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING CAUSING WINDS TO INCREASE AND BECOME BREEZY. THERE WILL ALSO BE JUST ENOUGH MOISTURE TO ALLOW FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF ISOLATED DRY THUNDERSTORMS. A FIRE WEATHER WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE HANFORD RESERVATION...THE LOWER COLUMBIA BASIN...THE YAKIMA VALLEY...THE FOOTHILLS OF THE BLUE MOUNTAINS...PLUS CENTRAL AND NORTH CENTRAL OREGON DUE TO THE EXPECTED COMBINATION OF WIND AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITIES. SEE THE LATEST FIRE WEATHER WATCH OR RFWPDT OR WWUS86 KPDT WSWRFW FOR DETAILS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED. 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.
A lightning sparked fire on Hatch Grade burned 150-200 acres of grass, sagebrush, and wheat. Fire District number five, the College Place Fire Department, and firefighters from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service all assisted in putting out the blaze.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Washington in 2003Every state in 2003This day in weather historyWarnings in Washington, June 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: 5363103.