**** A ten mile high pyrocumulus cloud can be seen rising today from the fire
**** Siskiyou Sheriff Updated Evacuation Orders
**** Highway 96 closed โ STAY OUT
**** National Weather Service issues Fire Weather Watch
The McKinney Fire is growing massively, with the latest estimate of 30,000 to 40,000 acres burned since its start yesterday, north of Yreka along Klamath River.
Cumulus clouds are developing in the fire area again today, which has potential to exacerbate fire behavior.
Firefighters with support of numerous air resources, including two VLATs and two type 1 tankers, continue their aggressive extended attack on the McKinney Fire.
SISKIYOU SHERIFF: THE EVACUATION WARNING FOR ZONE SIS-1117 BEEN UPGRADED TO AN ORDER. **PLEASE LEAVE THIS AREA IMMEDIATELY.**
– NORTH OF Forest Route 46n64
– SOUTH OF California Highway 96
– EAST OF China Grade Road
– WEST OF California Highway 96
โ The Siskiyou County Sheriff's Office is issuing EVACUATION WARNINGS on the east end of the #McKinneyFire for Yreka Zones:
YRE-3517
YRE-3624
YRE-3621
YRE-3636
YRE-3615
YRE-3612
PLEASE follow this link to see the evacuation zones: https://community.zonehaven.com/?latlon=41.82241712634084%2C-122.95539351264563&z=10.422241185395976&fbclid=IwAR3kgZ1eIw2JsnFhIym-bE6b0voyELt3OzevqojHVF4adHx1lpkzp6grAbA
CALTRANS TRAFFIC ALERT: State Route 96 is currently closed from the junction with State Route 263, approx. 2 miles west of junction with Interstate 5, to Scott River Road (Siskiyou County) due to the #McKinneyFire. No ETO.
24/7 highway updates: https://quickmap.dot.ca.gov/
The sheriff is receiving several reports of people trying to access evacuation zones and driving down narrow roads where residents are trying to flee. The Siskiyou County Sheriffโs Office and our law enforcement partners are asking people to please be respectful of these orders. ๐๐ป ๐๐๐ฎ๐ฐ๐๐ฎ๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป ๐ข๐ฟ๐ฑ๐ฒ๐ฟ ๐ถ๐ ๐ฎ ๐น๐ฎ๐๐ณ๐๐น ๐ผ๐ฟ๐ฑ๐ฒ๐ฟ ๐๐ผ ๐น๐ฒ๐ฎ๐๐ฒ ๐ถ๐บ๐บ๐ฒ๐ฑ๐ถ๐ฎ๐๐ฒ๐น๐. These areas are lawfully closed to public access.
Fire Weather Watch
URGENT – FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service Medford OR
317 AM PDT Sat Jul 30 2022
…Abundant Lightning On Dry Fuels Expected This Weekend…
.Heat, instability, and increasing moisture along with a couple of
low pressure impulses moving through today and Sunday into Monday
are expected to bring scattered thunderstorms and abundant
lightning on dry fuels this weekend. Today, thunderstorms are
expected to develop mid to late afternoon across western Siskiyou
County, across the Siskiyous, and over portions of the Southern Oregon
Cascades. These thunderstorms are then likely to propagate across
portions of Jackson and Josephine counties. Sunday into Monday, an
approaching low pressure system will bring another round of
lightning to areas east of the coastal ranges to the Cascades and
into Klamath and northwest Lake County as well as across western
and central Siskiyou.
CAZ281-ORZ616-624-625-302300-
/O.CON.KMFR.FW.A.0008.220731T1900Z-220801T1400Z/
Central Siskiyou County Including Shasta Valley-Umpqua Basin-
Klamath Basin and the Fremont-Winema National Forest-
South Central Oregon Desert including the BLM Land in Eastern Lake
and Western Harney Counties-
317 AM PDT Sat Jul 30 2022
…FIRE WEATHER WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM SUNDAY AFTERNOON
THROUGH MONDAY MORNING FOR ABUNDANT LIGHTNING ON DRY FUELS FOR
FIRE WEATHER ZONES 281, 616, 624, AND 625…
* Impacts: Lightning and high fire danger will likely result in
new fire starts. Gusty thunderstorm winds could contribute to
fire spread. Despite rainfall, initial attack resources could be
overwhelmed and holdover fires are possible.
* Affected area:
In Northern CA Fire Zone….281.
In Southwest and South Central OR Fire Zones…616…624…625.
* Wind: Gusty outflow winds of 30 to as high as 50 mph will be
possible with stronger thunderstorm cells.
* Thunderstorms: Sunday into Monday, an approaching low pressure
system will bring a round of scattered thunderstorms with
lightning to areas east of the coastal ranges to the Cascades and
into Klamath and northwest Lake County as well as across western
and central Siskiyou.
* Rainfall: Sunday into Monday, scattered thunderstorms will be a
mix of wet and dry, as well. Locally significant wetting rainfall
will be possible with some of the thunderstorms, especially the
slower moving ones.
* View the hazard area in detail at:
https://www.wrh.noaa.gov/mfr/HAZARD
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