Over 300 acres had burned along Stoddard Canyon in steep terrain that had not burned in 30 years. Named the Shinn Fire, it was fully contained after eight days.
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The episode as NWS SGX wrote it up.
Over 300 acres had burned along Stoddard Canyon in steep terrain that had not burned in 30 years. Named the Shinn Fire, it was fully contained after eight days.
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 16, 1:30 PM PST, 1 hour 30 minutes earlier.
EXTREME SOUTHWESTERN CALIFORNIA AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN DIEGO CA
230 PM PDT SAT JUN 16 2001
...SYNOPSIS...
HIGH PRESSURE WILL REMAIN CENTERED ACROSS SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA. NIGHT
AND MORNING LOW CLOUDS AND FOG WILL EXTEND LOCALLY INTO THE LOWER
VALLEYS AND LINGER AT SOME BEACHES EACH AFTERNOON. SEASONALLY HOT
AFTERNOON TEMPERATURES WILL CONTINUE INLAND FROM THE COAST.
...DISCUSSION...
NOT MUCH CHANGE NEXT FEW DAYS. TEMPERATURES WILL WARM SLIGHTLY
INLAND THROUGH ABOUT MID WEEK AS HIGH PRESSURE BUILDS EVEN STRONGER.
LOW CLOUDS WILL CONTINUE ALONG THE COAST AND LOCALLY INLAND WITH
DENSE FOG BUT INVERSIONS WILL REMAIN LOW AND WILL LIKELY GET EVEN
LOWER. EASTERLY WAVES COMING ACROSS NORTHERN MEXICO GET WASHED OUT
BY THE TIME THEY MAKE IT TO ARIZONA SO NO HINT OF MONSOON YET
EITHER. ALL IN ALL CONTINUED DRY AND WARM WITH A SHALLOW QMARINE
LAYER FOR NEXT SEVERAL DAYS.
SAN 000
.SAN...NONE.
ECCThe national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 wildfire. Local standard time, as filed.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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