Wildfire, San Diego
- When
- June 15, 1:00 PM PST to 5:00 PM PST
- Where
- San Diego County, 6 mi E of Ramona
- Injuries
- 3 direct, 0 indirect
- Reported by
- NEWSPAPER
- Coordinates
- 33.028, -116.770 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Wildfire in California, June 15, 2001
Three hundred firefighters, aided by four air tankers and a helicopter, protected homes from being consumed in a brush fire. Thirty acres burned, several residents were evacuated, one fire fighter injured, and two others overcome by heat exhaustion.
Where it happened
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The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 3
- 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.
Three hundred firefighters, aided by four air tankers and a helicopter, protected homes from being consumed in a brush fire. Thirty acres burned, several residents were evacuated, one fire fighter injured, and two others overcome by heat exhaustion.
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 Jun 15, 12:32 PM PST, 28 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 15, 12:32 PM PST, 28 minutes before
EXTREME SOUTHWESTERN CALIFORNIA AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN DIEGO CA
230 PM PDT FRI JUN 15 2001
...SYNOPSIS...
ONSHORE FLOW AND A SHALLOW MARINE LAYER WILL CONTINUE NIGHT AND MORNING
COASTAL LOW CLOUDS AND PATCHY DENSE FOG...LINGERING NEAR SOME BEACHES
INTO THE AFTERNOON. OTHERWISE...HIGH PRESSURE ALOFT WILL KEEP THE
WEATHER FAIR.
...DISCUSSION...
LOW CLOUDS/PATCHY DENSE FOG INTO MOST SAN COASTAL AREAS AND LOCALLY INTO
WRN SAN INLAND VALLEYS AND ALONG ORANGE COUNTY COAST THIS AM.
OTHERWISE...CLEAR. PERHAPS A WEAK EDDY OR AT LEAST SLY WINDS ALONG THE
IMMEDIATE COAST. 12Z NKX SOUNDING HAD INVERSION BASED NEAR 1000 FT.
GRADIENTS TRENDING ONSHORE WITH ABOUT 3 MB SAN-IPL.
PROGS GENERALLY AGREE TO KEEP BROAD UPPER HI BUILD OVER THE SW US.
HEIGHTS/THICKNESS INCREASE INTO SAT AND THEN LEVEL OFF SUNDAY. 850 MB
TEMPS CONTINUE TO INCREASE INTO SUNDAY...WITH THE USUAL DIURNAL
FLUCTUATIONS. WEAK SYNOPTIC SCALE ONSHORE FLOW FROM E PAC SURFACE HI
INTENSIFIES EACH AFTERNOON TO DEVELOPING DESERT THERMAL LOW. STRONG/
SHALLOW INVERSION WILL CONTINUE WITH POSSIBLE WEAK INTERMITTENT EDDY FOR
SOME NIGHT/MORNING COASTAL LOW CLOUDS AND PATCHY DENSE FOG. THE STRATUS
MAY BE A BIT SLOW TO CLEAR FROM SOME OF THE BEACHES. CONTINUED WARM TO
HOT INLAND BUT AROUND SEASONAL MAX TEMPS NEAR COAST. OTHERWISE...FAIR.
LONGER RANGE PROGS CONTINUE BROAD UPPER HI ALOFT THROUGH NEXT WEEK FOR
LITTLE CHANGE OR JUST SLIGHT COOLING. WILL HAVE TO WATCH FOR MOISTURE
CREEPING UP FROM THE S...BUT WILL PROBABLY JUST GET SOME AFTERNOON
CLOUDS OVER THE MOUNTAINS.
.SAN...NONE.
ATKIN
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
1 wildfire. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Wildfire
- A fire burning in wildland vegetation, with its acreage and damage where known.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Lightning Strike in North Carolina, June 15, 2001
- Flash Flood in North Carolina, June 15, 2001
- Flash Flooding and Hail in North Carolina, June 15 to 17, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Florida, June 15, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Florida, June 15, 2001
- Tornado and Hail in Michigan, June 15, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Florida, June 15, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Michigan, June 15, 2001
- Damaging Winds in Michigan, June 15, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Florida, June 15, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Louisiana, June 15, 2001
- Lightning Strike in North Carolina, June 15, 2001
More
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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: 5252036.