Wildfire in John Day Basin, Oregon

Wildfire August 24, 2011 – August 31, 2011 · John Day Basin, Oregon

What the National Weather Service wrote

Lightning sparked fires in the the Hancock Complex which had burned over 50,000 acres by the end of August.

The wider storm

Daytime heating and an unstable southwest flow aloft brought thunderstorms to mainly central Oregon which started the High Cascades Complex Fire and the Hancock Fire.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 329822. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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