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 Aug 31, 6:20 PM PST, 5 hours 40 minutes earlier.
NORTHEAST OREGON/SOUTHEAST WASHINGTON FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENDLETON OR 720 PM PDT SUN AUG 31 2003 CLEAR SKIES ARE PREVAILING ACROSS MOST OF EASTERN OREGON AND WASHINGTON THIS EVENING...WITH A FEW HIGH CLOUDS STILL PRESENT TO OUR NORTH AND SOUTH. SMOKE ALSO CONTINUES TO FILL THE SKIES ACROSS CENTRAL OREGON AND MUCH OF THE COLUMBIA RIVER BASIN...AS THE B AND B COMPLEX/S SMOKE PLUME DRIFTS TO THE EAST AND NORTHEAST. THE WEAK WAVE THAT MOVED THROUGH BRITISH COLUMBIA AND WASHINGTON EARLIER TODAY IS STILL CAUSING BREEZY CONDITIONS IN THE KITTITAS VALLEY AND COLUMBIA RIVER GORGE THIS EVENING. THESE WINDS WILL DECREASE LATER...AS PRESSURE GRADIENTS BEGIN TO WEAKEN AFTER SUNSET. TOMORROW WILL BE ANOTHER NICE DAY...WITH CLEAR...BUT SMOKEY SKIES AND WARMER TEMPERATURES ACROSS THE REGION. CURRENT FORECAST LOOKS ON TRACK...AND NO UPDATES ARE PLANNED AT THIS TIME. PALMER PDT 0000 ALW 0000 PSC 0000 YKM 0000 .KPDT...NONE.
ORZ041>050-WAZ024>030-011200- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENDLETON OR 438 AM PDT SUN AUG 31 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST OREGON AS WELL AS SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST WASHINGTON. .DAY ONE... TODAY THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 wildfire. Local standard time, as filed.
The Square Lake Fire began on August 25th, and burned a total of 1,097 acres. The fire was a lightning sparked fire, and became completely contained on September 30th.
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, September 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: 5337103.