1 wildfire, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Every event with a place to put it; 1 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.
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 31, 7:40 PM PST, 4 hours 20 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENDLETON OR 840 PM PDT MON JUL 31 2006 .UPDATE...THE LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM IS CURRENTLY MOVING THROUGH SOUTHERN OREGON AND INTO IDAHO. MID LEVEL CLOUDS DEVELOPED OVER CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST OREGON EARLIER THIS AFTERNOON...WHILE A FEW ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPED IN SOUTHERN OREGON NEAR LAKEVIEW. THE STORMS ASSOCIATED WITH THE LOW ARE NOW MOSTLY OVER THE OREGON AND NEVADA BORDER AND ARE MOVING SLOWLY NORTHEAST. WILL UPDATE THE FORECAST LATER TO REMOVE EVENING WORDING AS WELL AS THE ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS. DK && .AVIATION...VFR CONDITIONS WILL CONTINUE FOR ALL TAF SITES AND ALONG ALL TWEB ROUTES FOR THE NEXT 24 HOURS. AREAS OF SMOKE WILL CONTINUE...PARTICULARLY IN CENTRAL OREGON...AND WILL AFFECT TWB368 AND TWB366. DK && .PREV DISCUSSION... (ISSUED 215 PM PDT MON JUL 31 2006) SHORT TERM...TONIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY NIGHT. SURFACE LOW PRESSURE OVER NORTHERN CALIFORNIA IS PUSHING EAST AS WATER VAPOR LOOP SHOWS UPPER LOW/TROUGH MOVING ONSHORE. THIS HAS ALLOWED AN AREA OF CLOUDS TO MOVE INTO CENTRAL OREGON WITH DEVELOPMENT OF CLOUDS ALONG THE SOUTHERN REACHES OF FORECAST AREA. THERE WILL BE SOME LIMITED INSTABILITY THROUGH THE REST OF THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING AS A TROUGH CONTINUES TO MOVE EAST ACROSS OREGON TONIGHT. ON TUESDAY...THE FLOW WILL TURN WESTERLY WITH DRY CONDITIONS AND A LITTLE WARMER TEMPERATURES. A WEAK WAVE WILL MOVE ACROSS WESTERN CANADA TUESDAY NIGHT...BUT MOISTURE AND ENERGY WILL REMAIN NORTH OF FORECAST AREA. HEIGHTS AND THICKNESSES BUILD ON WEDNESDAY WITH NORTHWEST FLOW AS A WEAK RIDGE BUILDS ALONG THE COAST. ML LONG TERM...THURSDAY THROUGH MONDAY...MID RANGE MODELS IN AGREEMENT THAT THE GENERALLY DRY...ZONAL PATTERN WILL CONTINUE THROUGH AT LEAST EARLY FRIDAY. THE MODELS THEN BEGIN TO DIVERGE CONSIDERABLY AS TO HOW THEY WANT TO DEVELOP AND MOVE AN UPPER LOW CUTTING OFF FROM THE MAIN FLOW. THE GFS DEVELOPS THE LOW NEAR THE NORTHWEST CALIFORNIA COAST BY SATURDAY MORNING...THEN MOVES IT NORTHEAST THROUGH THE PACNW DURING THE WEEKEND. THE ECMWF DEVELOPS IT OFF OF SAN FRANCISCO AND MOVES INTO THE PACNW MONDAY. THE UKMET DEVELOPS IT FURTHER SOUTHWEST YET FROM THE ECMWF WHERE IT MAY STAY. THE CANADIAN HAS BEEN INDICATING A WEEK TRANSITORY WAVE PASSING THROUGH THE PACNW THIS WEEKEND...AND MOST RECENTLY IT DEVELOPS THE LOW NEAR 35N/129W AND DRIFTS IT WESTWARD WITH A ZONAL FLOW OVER THE PACNW. AT THIS TIME...DUE TO THE GREAT AMOUNT OF UNCERTAINTY...WILL LEAVE CURRENT DRY FORECAST AS IS. 90 FIRE WEATHER...THE COLD FRONT THAT SWEPT ACROSS THE REGION ON SUNDAY RESULTED IN MUCH COOLER TEMPERATURES AND A SIGNIFICANT INCREASE IN RELATIVE HUMIDITIES OVER MOST OF THE AREA LAST NIGHT. ALTHOUGH WE WILL SEE A WARMING AND DRYING TREND THE REMAINDER OF THE WEEK...I DO NOT EXPECT A SIGNIFICANT LOWERING OF RH/S AT LEAST THROUGH THURSDAY. THE RELATIVE HUMIDITY VALUES MAY LOWER BACK INTO THE TEENS OVER PORTIONS OF THE AREA ON FRIDAY AND OVER THE WEEKEND. THE ISOLATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THIS EVENING OVER THE CENTRAL AND EASTERN OREGON MOUNTAINS WILL HAVE LIGHT TO MODERATE PRECIPITATION...NOT THE DRY HIGH BASED THUNDERSTORMS THAT CAUSE OUR BIGGEST FIRE WEATHER CONCERNS THIS TIME OF YEAR. OVERALL...NO MAJOR FIRE WEATHER CONCERNS OVER THE NEXT SEVERAL DAYS. SMITH && .PDT WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... OR...NONE. WA...NONE. && TI:GGG FOR ADDITIONAL WEATHER INFORMATION, CHECK OUR WEB SITE AT... WWW.WEATHER.GOV/PENDLETON 84/
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENDLETON OR
400 AM PDT MON JUL 31 2006
WAZ024-501-502-026>030-ORZ041>044-049-050-501>506-011015-
EAST SLOPES OF THE CENTRAL CASCADES OF WASHINGTON-
EAST SLOPES OF THE SOUTHERN CASCADES OF WASHINGTON-
KITTITAS VALLEY-YAKIMA VALLEY-LOWER COLUMBIA BASIN OF WASHINGTON-
FOOTHILLS OF THE BLUE MOUNTAINS OF WASHINGTON-
NORTHWEST BLUE MOUNTAINS-EASTERN COLUMBIA RIVER GORGE OF OREGON-
NORTH CENTRAL OREGON-CENTRAL OREGON-
LOWER COLUMBIA BASIN OF OREGON-GRANDE RONDE VALLEY-WALLOWA COUNTY-
FOOTHILLS OF THE BLUE MOUNTAINS OF OREGON-
NORTHERN BLUE MOUNTAINS OF OREGON-
SOUTHERN BLUE MOUNTAINS OF OREGON-
NORTHERN WHEELER AND SOUTHERN GILLIAM COUNTIES-JOHN DAY BASIN-
OCHOCO-JOHN DAY HIGHLANDS-
400 AM PDT MON JUL 31 2006
THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST OREGON
AS WELL AS SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST WASHINGTON.
.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT.
THUNDERSTORMS
CENTRAL OREGON, OCHOCO-JOHN DAY HIGHLANDS
AS A DISTURBANCE NEARS THE AREA TODAY...A FEW THUNDERSTORMS MAY
DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING MAINLY ALONG AND SOUTH OF A LINE
FROM SUNRIVER TO JOHN DAY.
.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY.
THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW.
.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.
GRAPHICAL FORECASTS OF WEATHER HAZARDS OUT TO SEVEN DAYS
ARE DISPLAYED ON THE WORLD WIDE WEB AT:
WWW.WRH.NOAA.GOV/PENDLETON/CURRENTHAZARDS/HWO.HTML
ALL LETTERS IN THE ABOVE URL ARE LOWER CASE...EXCEPT THE H IN
CURRENTHAZARDS.The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 wildfire. Local standard time, as filed.
The Maxwell Fire, 6 miles south of Mitchell, started July 24 and was contained August 11 after burning 7,157 acres.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Oregon in 2006Every state in 2006This day in weather historyWarnings in Oregon, August 2006
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: 5530415.