1 wildfire, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Hanford, CA wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Aug 20, 8:00 AM PST, 6 hours earlier.
INTERIOR CENTRAL CALIFORNIA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY - HANFORD CA 900 AM PDT MON AUG 20 2001 UPPER LEVEL RIDGE CONTINUING TO BREAK DOWN AS SHORT WAVE TROUGH PUSHES IN TO CA. THE LOS BANOS RAWS INDICATES WEST WINDS RANGING AROUND 15 MPH THIS MORNING WITH GUSTS UP TO 30 MPH. TEMPS OVER THE PAST 24 HOURS ARE RUNNING DOWN 2 TO 4 DEGREES ACROSS THE SJV...WITH THE NORTH VALLEY RUNNING EVEN COOLER. WITH THE MARINE LAYER DEEPENING TO 2100 FT ON THE 12Z OAK SOUNDING...AND ONSHORE GRADS TIGHTENING THIS MORNING...THE SHORT WAVE APPEARS TO BE BEHAVING AS EXPECTED. FORECAST STILL LOOKS TO BE ON TRACK...WITH COOLER TEMPERATURES FOR THE MIDDLE OF THIS WEEK. THEREFOR...NO UPDATES PLANED FOR THIS MORNING. .HNX...NONE. CUTTER
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 wildfire. Local standard time, as filed.
The North Fork Fire was ignited by a rail-splitter accidentally and burned 4132 acres southeast of Bass Lake. There were two primary structures lost but no fatalities or injuries.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in California in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in California, August 2001
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5265869.