Wildfire in California, August 25, 2001

Name: Wildfire in California, August 25, 2001
Start: 2001-08-25T14:41
End: 2001-08-25T15:10
Location: California

August 25, 2001 · NWS SGX · 1 event in 1 county or zone

Traffic on Interstate 15 was delayed for 25 minutes while firefighters fought a one acre fire in a steep patch of brush and pepper trees.

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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: None recorded
Crop damage: None recorded
Events: 1

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.

What happened

The episode as NWS SGX wrote it up.

Traffic on Interstate 15 was delayed for 25 minutes while firefighters fought a one acre fire in a steep patch of brush and pepper trees.

What forecasters said that day

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 San Diego, CA wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Aug 25, 12:45 PM PST, 1 hour 56 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 25, 12:45 PM PST, 1 hour 56 minutes before

EXTREME SOUTHWESTERN CALIFORNIA AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN DIEGO CA
145 PM PDT SAT AUG 25 2001

                             ...SYNOPSIS...
HIGH PRESSURE ALOFT WILL CONTINUE THROUGH NEXT WEEK...THOUGH SOME
WEAKENING WILL OCCUR STARTING WEDNESDAY. A SHALLOW MARINE LAYER WILL
BRING NIGHT AND MORNING LOW CLOUDS AND FOG TO COASTAL
SECTIONS...WITH SOME BEACHES SEEING A FEW LINGERING LOW CLOUDS IN
THE AFTERNOON. OTHERWISE...LIMITED MOISTURE ALOFT WILL KEEP THE
SKIES CLEAR.

                            ...DISCUSSION...
LOW CLOUDS CLEARED SOME BEACHES LATE IN THE MORNING...BUT THE SEA
BREEZE AND AN EDDY HAVE ALLOWED THE LOW CLOUDS TO RETURN TO ALL
BEACHES EXCEPT FOR FAR N ORANGE COUNTY. THE PT LOMA PROFILER SHOWED
AN IMPRESSIVELY STRONG 13-14 DEG C INVERSION...SO THAT CERTAINLY
CONTRIBUTED TO THE AFTERNOON COASTAL LOW CLOUDS.

OVERALL...EXPECT HIGH PRESSURE ALOFT TO BUILD THROUGH SUNDAY...AND
THEN MAINTAIN ITSELF MONDAY. THE HIGH SHOULD BE CENTERED CLOSE BY SO
THAT ANY EAST FLOW SHOULD STAY TO OUR SOUTH. THE HIGH DOES NOT
EXTEND FAR ENOUGH EAST TO BRING ANY LONG EASTERLY FETCH IN THE FLOW
ALOFT TO NW MEXICO...SO THE RH VALUES ALOFT SHOULD STAY LOW AROUND
THE REGION. TEMPS SHOULD BE ABOVE NORMAL INLAND...THOUGH THE ONSHORE
FLOW AND LOW CLOUDS WILL CONTINUE TO TEMPER TEMPS AT THE COAST...AS
USUAL. THE RECORD HIGHS FOR SUNDAY ARE LOWER THAN ON ADJACENT
DAYS...BUT STILL WE WILL PROBABLY JUST APPROACH AND NOT EXCEED THOSE
RECORDS.

THE HEIGHTS AND TEMPS ALOFT LOWER A BIT STARTING LATE TUE OR WED...BUT
OVERALL THESE CHANGES SHOULD BE MINOR AS THE JET STREAM STAYS WELL
TO THE NORTH OVER SW CANADA AND STAYS FAIRLY WEAK. WE MAY SEE A
SLIGHT INCREASE IN THE ONSHORE FLOW...BOTH AT THE SURFACE AND
ALOFT...SO THE MARINE LAYER COULD DEEPEN SLIGHTLY FOR FURTHER INLAND
PENETRATION OF THE LOW CLOUDS. THE GULF OF ALASKA LOW WILL NOT DIG
ENOUGH TO ERODE THE HIGH VERY MUCH...WHICH WILL REMAIN OVER OUR
AREA...WITH VARIABLE STRENGTH...FOR THE NEXT WEEK...AND BEYOND.

.SAN...NONE.

MAXWELL

The radar

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Event by event

1 wildfire. Local standard time, as filed.

Wildfire, San Diego

When: August 25, 2:41 PM PST to 3:10 PM PST
Where: San Diego County, Escondido
Reported by: NEWSPAPER
Coordinates: 33.028, -116.770 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

What these are

Wildfire: A fire burning in wildland vegetation, with its acreage and damage where known.

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The same day elsewhere

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Sources

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: 5263071.