Wildfire, Riverside
- When
- June 23, 6:30 PM PST to June 25, 7:00 AM PST
- Where
- Riverside County, Corona
- Property damage
- $150,000
- Reported by
- NEWSPAPER
- Coordinates
- 33.744, -115.994 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Wildfire in California, June 23 to 25, 2001
A brush fire consumed one house and ten acres in the foothills of the Santa Ana Mountains in southern Corona.
Where it happened
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The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $150,000
- 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.
A brush fire consumed one house and ten acres in the foothills of the Santa Ana Mountains in southern Corona.
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 23, 1:30 PM PST, 5 hours earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 23, 1:30 PM PST, 5 hours before
EXTREME SOUTHWESTERN CALIFORNIA AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN DIEGO CA
230 PM PDT SAT JUN 23 2001
...SYNOPSIS...
MOISTURE IN SOUTHERLY FLOW ALOFT WILL BRING VARIABLE CLOUDINESS WITH A
CHANCE OF AFTERNOON AND EVENING THUNDERSTORMS IN THE MOUNTAINS AND
DESERTS SUNDAY. THERE COULD EVEN BE A FEW SPRINKLES WEST OF THE
MOUNTAINS SUNDAY. PATCHY COASTAL LOW CLOUDS AND FOG WILL BECOME MORE
EXTENSIVE EARLY NEXT WEEK AS LOW PRESSURE DEVELOPS ALOFT. THIS WILL ALSO
BRING SOME COOLING. OTHERWISE...DRIER SOUTHWEST FLOW ALOFT WILL KEEP THE
WEATHER FAIR MOST OF NEXT WEEK.
...DISCUSSION...
SE FLOW ALOFT BRINGING DEBRIS CLOUDS OVER OUR AREA FROM NOCTURNAL
THUNDERSTORMS IN NW MEX BUT MOST OF THIS DECREASED BY AFTERNOON. THERE
WERE ALSO PATCHY LOW CLOUDS/FOG NEAR THE COAST THIS AM. 12Z NKX SOUNDING
HAD A SURFACE BASED INVERSION AND SHOWED THE MID/HI LEVEL MOISTURE WITH
SE WINDS ALOFT. GRADIENTS TRENDING ONSHORE WITH 5-6 MB SAN-IPL.
THE MAIN FORECAST PROBLEM FOR THE NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS WILL BE MOISTURE
MOVING UP FROM THE S. MOISTURE FROM THE SSE A BIT LIMITED TODAY AND
AFTERNOON CU NOT SHOWING MUCH VERTICAL DEVELOPMENT AND THERE WILL
PROBABLY NOT BE ANY THUNDERSTORMS TODAY. FLOW ALOFT TURNS SSW SUNDAY AND
BOTH ETA AND NGM CONTINUE TO BRING UP A LARGE AMOUNT OF MID AND HI LEVEL
MOISTURE FOR A BETTER CHANCE OF MORE WIDESPREAD MOUNTAIN/DESERT
THUNDERSTORMS SUNDAY AFTERNOON/EVE. AVN STILL INDICATES DRIER SW FLOW
ALOFT SUNDAY. STILL THINK ETA HAS BETTER HANDLE ON MOISTURE FIELD.
DISTURBANCE OFF OF SRN BAJA DRIFTS N AND MAY EVEN HAVE SOME WEAK
DYNAMICS IN THE FORM OF A VORT MAX MOVE THROUGH CWFA SUNDAY PM. WILL GO
WITH CHANCE POPS IN THE HIGHER MOUNTAINS AND SLIGHT CHANCE IN THE
DESERTS SUNDAY. WOULD NOT BE SURPRISED TO SEE SOME SPRINKLES W OF THE
MOUNTAINS SUNDAY...MAINLY S. MAX TEMPS WILL BE A TOUGH CALL SUNDAY BUT
INCREASED CLOUD COVER SHOULD RESULT IN SOME COOLING. UPPER TROUGH MOVING
INTO PAC NW SHOULD BRING DRIER SW FLOW ALOFT MONDAY WITH INCREASING
MARINE LAYER AND A LITTLE COOLING NEAR THE COAST. STILL SOME MID/HI
LEVEL MOISTURE LINGERING MON SO WILL INDICATE AFTERNOON CLOUDS IN
MOUNTAINS BUT NO THUNDERSTORMS FOR NOW.
LONGER RANGE PROGS NOT IN THE BEST AGREEMENT BUT GENERALLY CONTINUE
TROUGH ALOFT INTO MID WEEK FOR NIGHT/MORNING LOW CLOUDS AND A LITTLE
MORE COOLING. THE UPPER HI SHOULD REBUILD FROM THE SE TOWARD THE SECOND
HALF OF THE WEEK FOR SOME WARMING. HOWEVER...NOT ENOUGH SIGNIFICANT
CHANGE AND TOO MUCH UNCERTAINTY IN PROGS TO PUT UNJUSTIFIED DETAILS IN
EXTENDED.
.SAN...NONE.
ATKINThe 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
- Tornadoes in Connecticut, June 23, 2001
- Wildfire in California, June 23 to 28, 2001
- Tornado and Hail in Florida, June 23, 2001
- Wildfire in California, June 23 to 24, 2001
- Flash Flood and Flooding in New York, June 23 to 24, 2001
- Tornado in Connecticut, June 23, 2001
- Lightning Strikes in New York, June 23, 2001
- Lightning Strike in Florida, June 23, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Colorado, June 23, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Texas, June 23, 2001
- Flash Flood and Hail in New Mexico, June 23, 2001
- Hail in Montana, June 23, 2001
More
Every storm in California in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in California, June 2001
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: 5252046.