1 heat, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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 Jul 4, 7:55 AM PST, 5 hours 35 minutes earlier.
INTERIOR CENTRAL CALIFORNIA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY - HANFORD CA 855 AM PDT WED JUL 4 2001 LOTS OF UPDATES THIS MORNING. WIDESPREAD CLOUD COVER OVER THE FORECAST AREA WILL KEEP TEMPERATURES MUCH COOLER THAN PREVIOUSLY THOUGHT TODAY. SATELLITE IMAGERY SHOWS CLOUDS EXTENDING WELL SOUTHEAST INTO THE KERN COUNTY DESERTS AND WITH SOUTHEAST FLOW ALOFT...EXPECT THE CLOUDS TO PERSIST UNTIL AT LEAST EARLY AFTERNOON. RADAR IMAGERY FROM HANFORD SHOWS SPRINKLES OVER PARTS OF THE SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY AND EDWARDS RADAR SHOWS AN ORGANIZED BAND OF LIGHT SHOWERS/THUNDERSTORMS? WITH GUSTY WINDS MOVING OVER THE TEHACHAPI MOUNTAINS TOWARDS THE BAKERSFIELD AREA. EARLIER THIS MORNING AN APRS WEATHER STATION AT GOVERNMENT PEAK WEST OF RANDSBURG HAD GUSTS TO OVER 50 MPH WITH THIS BAND OF PRECIPITATION. HAVE ISSUED NOWCASTS TO COVER THIS SCENARIO. WITH THE CLOUD COVER INDUCED COOLER TEMPERATURES...HAVE DROPPED THE HEAT ADVISORY FOR TODAY IN ALL ZONES AND LOWERED MAX TEMPS ABOUT 10 DEGREES ACROSS THE BOARD. THIS MAY NOT BE ENOUGH...WE'LL SEE. A QUICK LOOK AT THE BIG PICTURE SHOWS AN UPPER LOW STILL OFF THE CENTRAL CALIFORNIA COAST COMBINING WITH THE VERY STRONG 6010 METER HIGH OVER UTAH HIGH KEEPING THE MOIST SOUTHEAST FLOW GOING INTO THE CENTRAL CALIFORNIA INTERIOR. A QUICK LOOK AT THE MORNING MODEL SUITE SHOWS THE UPPER LOW PROGGED TO HEAD NORTH UP THE COAST...WHILE THE HIGH CENTER SHIFTS A LITTLE FURTHER EAST THROUGH THURSDAY MORNING. BY FRIDAY...LATEST ETA/NGM SHIFT THE HIGH FURTHER EAST AND BRING A SHORT WAVE TOWARD THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST COAST. FLOW DOES REMAIN GENERALLY FROM THE SOUTH WITH THE ETA ADVERTISING ANOTHER SURGE OF MOISTURE FOR FRIDAY. WILL ADDRESS MORE OF THIS IN THE AFTERNOON PACKAGE. .HNX...NONE. DUDLEY
1 heat. Local standard time, as filed.
While temperatures were also relatively high elsewhere in Interior Central California on the 4th, the Heat Index at Bakersfield climbed to 106F.
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, July 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: 5253384.