Red Flag Warning Today and Tomorrow

Red Flag Warning

URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENDLETON OR
729 AM PDT TUE JUL 22 2014

...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WITH ABUNDANT LIGHTNING TODAY AND
WEDNESDAY...

.A LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM MOVING INTO THE AREA WILL CAUSE WIDESPREAD
SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. ALTHOUGH SOME STORMS MAY PRODUCE
WETTING RAIN...ABUNDANT LIGHTNING CAN BE EXPECTED WHICH COULD
START NEW FIRES IN VERY DRY FUELS. STORMS WILL BEGIN DEVELOPING
OVER CENTRAL OREGON AROUND MID-DAY AND THEN MOVE NORTH AND EAST
THROUGH THE AFTERNOON. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS COULD POTENTIALLY
LAST THROUGH THE NIGHT IN SOME PLACES. AS THE LOW MOVES INLAND ON
WEDNESDAY...OCCASIONAL SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL REMAIN
POSSIBLE THROUGH THE EVENING.

A RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM THIS MORNING TO
5 PM PDT WEDNESDAY.

* AFFECTED AREA...IN ORZ610...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 610 EAST SLOPES
  OF CENTRAL OREGON CASCADES. IN ORZ611...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 611
  DESCHUTES NATIONAL FOREST MINUS -SISTERS RANGER DISTRICT. IN
  ORZ640...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 640 CENTRAL MOUNTAINS OF OREGON.

* TIMING...STORMS WILL DEVELOP AROUND MID-DAY AND OCCASIONAL
  SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE THROUGH WEDNESDAY
  AFTERNOON.

* THUNDERSTORMS...SOME STORMS MAY BECOME STRONG WITH OUTFLOW
  WINDS AROUND 40 MPH AND SMALL HAIL.

* PRECIPITATION...THERE WILL BE A MIX OF WET AND DRY STORMS WITH
  ANYWHERE FROM A FEW HUNDREDTHS OF AN INCH TO OVER ONE QUARTER
  OF AN INCH OF RAIN POSSIBLE.

* LIGHTNING ACTIVITY LEVEL...3.

* IMPACTS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND CRITICALLY DRY FUELS MAY
  RESULT IN NUMEROUS FIRE STARTS.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS
ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW...OR WILL SHORTLY. A COMBINATION OF
STRONG WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AND WARM TEMPERATURES CAN
CONTRIBUTE TO EXTREME FIRE BEHAVIOR.

73,

Carroll - KF7ELY