Wildfire in Lake County, Oregon
Wildfire August 7, 2000 · Lake County, Oregon
What the National Weather Service wrote
See below.
The wider storm
A Red Flag Warning was issued for fire weather zones 621 and the southern portions of 623-625. This included southeast Josephine County, south and southeast Jackson County, southern Klamath County, and southern Lake County. Thunderstorms developed over northern California on this afternoon, and some of them managed to make it over the border into southern Oregon in the late afternoon and early evening hours. Some fire starts were reported from dry lightning...but no major blazes. The Medford Fire Center reported that most of the strikes over the Siskiyous were dry.
Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 5175637. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.
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