Red Flag Warnings for Tuesday and Wednesday

Red Flag Warning

URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENDLETON OR
200 PM PDT MON JUL 21 2014

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

.A LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM MOVING INTO THE AREA TUESDAY 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 AND THE NORTHEAST MOUNTAINS AROUND
MID-DAY TUESDAY AND THEN MOVE NORTH INTO THE WASHINGTON CASCADES AND
LOWER COLUMBIA BASIN TUESDAY AFTERNOON. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS
COULD POTENTIALLY LAST THROUGH THE NIGHT IN SOME PLACES BUT THERE IS
A LOT OF. AS THE LOW MOVES INLAND ON WEDNESDAY...OCCASIONAL
SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL REMAIN POSSIBLE THROUGH THE EVENING.

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PENDLETON HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG
WARNING FOR THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING ABUNDANT LIGHTNING...WHICH IS
IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM TUESDAY TO 5 PM PDT WEDNESDAY. THE FIRE
WEATHER WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT.

* 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 TUESDAY 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.

I sure hope that there are few new fire starts this time.

73,

Carroll - KF7ELY