Wildfire in Josephine County, Oregon

Wildfire November 1, 2002 · Josephine County, Oregon

What the National Weather Service wrote

See below.

The wider storm

A Red Flag Warning was issued at 1530 PDT on 10/31/02 and cancelled at 1200 PDT on 11/01/02. The warning was for strong ridgetop winds and poor relative humidity recoveries in fire weather zones 618/619/620/621 and southern zone 616. These zones include all or part of the above counties. This warning verified well as RH and wind criteria were met at Red Mound RAWS (618), Onion Mountain RAWS (620), Evans Mountain RAWS (622), Squaw Peak RAWS (621), and Mount Sexton ASOS.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 5322547. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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