BOISE – The National Weather Service has issued a Red Flag warning for lightning for the Vale district of the Bureau of Land Management from midnight Monday, Aug. 12 until 8 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 13.
The warning calls for scattered thunderstorms and possible wind gusts up to 50 mph.
“There is a large low off the coast of northern California and it will move in late tonight,” said Josh Smith, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Boise.
Smith said the weather service is “anticipating quite a bit of thunderstorms across Malheur County tonight.”
“We are not expecting more than a quarter of an inch (of rain) with the strongest storms we will get,” he said.
For more weather information go online to https://www.weather.gov/boi/
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