Wildfire, San Diego
- When
- June 26, 2:00 PM PST to June 27, 7:00 AM PST
- Where
- San Diego County, Camp Pendleton
- Reported by
- NEWSPAPER
- Coordinates
- 33.028, -116.770 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Wildfire in California, June 26 to 27, 2001
A brush fire started by weapon fire on the training area near Basilone Road, quickly consumed 100 acres.
Where it happened
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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.
A brush fire started by weapon fire on the training area near Basilone Road, quickly consumed 100 acres.
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 26, 1:30 PM PST, 30 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 26, 1:30 PM PST, 30 minutes before
EXTREME SOUTHWESTERN CALIFORNIA AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN DIEGO CA
230 PM PDT TUE JUN 26 2001
...SYNOPSIS...
A WEAK WARM FRONT WILL MOVE ACROSS CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
TONIGHT. A FEW SPRINKLES ARE POSSIBLE...MAINLY OVER THE HIGHER
MOUNTAINS. HIGH PRESSURE WILL BUILD OVER THE AREA WEDNESDAY
THROUGH SATURDAY. MARINE LAYER CLOUDS WILL CONTINUE DURING THE
NIGHTS AND MORNINGS. THESE WILL MAINLY AFFECT THE COASTAL AREAS. THE
INLAND VALLEYS...MOUNTAINS AND DESERTS WILL WARM TO ABOUT TEN DEGREES
ABOVE NORMAL. OVER THE COMING WEEKEND...HIGH PRESSURE IS EXPECTED
TO SHIFT EASTWARD. THIS WOULD ALLOW MOIST TROPICAL AIR TO MOVE
NORTHWARD. NEXT WEEK AND THE JULY FOURTH HOLIDAY OVER SOUTHWEST
CALIFORNIA COULD BE WARM AND MUGGY WITH THUNDERSTORMS.
...DISCUSSION...
DEEPENING NE PACIFIC LOW WITH OPEN CELLULAR CUMULUS AS FAR SOUTH AS
31 N LATITUDE. EARLIER PIREPS AND AVN 250 MB WINDS SHOWED +110 KT
JET STREAM DROPPING SE FROM GULF OF ALASKA TO 33N 136W. MAIN LIFTING
AND PRECIPITATION THREAT IS ALONG COLD FRONT WHICH REMAINS WEST AND
NORTH OF 35N 123W BEFORE ERODING WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON. HOWEVER ALL
MODELS DEPICT AN OCCLUDED WARM FRONT MOVING ACROSS SW CALIFORNIA
TONIGHT. CROSS SECTIONS MAINTAIN UPWARD VERTICAL VELOCITIES/MEAN RH
AT OR ABOVE 80 PERCENT THROUGH 27/12Z. LAST 5 HOURS OF IR SATELLITE
IMAGERY SUPPORT MODEL SOLUTIONS...WITH SOME ENHANCEMENT/HINT OF
BAROCLINIC LEAF FORMATION OFF THE CENTRAL CALIFORNIA COAST. WILL
BEEF UP TONIGHT FORECAST FROM PARTLY CLOUDY TO INCREASING
CLOUDS/MOSTLY CLOUDY ALL ZONES. BASED ON REPORTS OF SPRINKLES AS FAR
INLAND AS DESERTS ZONES FROM BAND THAT PASSED THROUGH THIS MORNING
AND MODELS SHOWING EVEN WETTER AIR MASS FOR TONIGHT...WILL CARRY
MENTION OF SAME TONIGHT FOR HIGHER MTNS/DESERTS.
FOR WEDNESDAY WILL SHOW PARTLY CLOUDY MORNING ALL ZONES TO COVER ANY
LINGERING MID/HIGH LEVEL CLOUDS AS WELL AS COASTAL STRATUS THEN
MOSTLY SUNNY AFTERNOON. FOR REMAINDER OF WEEK WILL CONTINUE
PREVIOUS TREND OF DRY AND WARMER WITH ABOUT 3 DEGREES FAHRENHEIT
WARMING EACH DAY. IN THE EXTENDED...KEEPING FRIDAY THROUGH SUNDAY
GROUPED TOGETHER AND MONDAY AND NEXT TUESDAY AS SEPARATE GROUP. FROM
SUNDAY AFTERNOON ON AVAILABLE MEDIUM RANGE MODELS ALL TRENDING
TOWARDS INCREASING SOUTHEAST FLOW ACROSS NW MEXICO/SRN CALIFORNIA.
MRF IS EVEN HINTING AT ANOTHER NEGATIVE TILT TROUGH BY JULY FOURTH.
TODAYS NCEP DISCUSSION FOR 6-10 DAY AND 8-14 DAY PERIOD HAVE ABOVE
NORMAL CONFIDENCE IN MRF SOLUTION BUT SHOW BOTH SW UNITED STATES AS
WARM BUT DRY. CONSENSUS FORECAST WITH ADJACENT OFFICES TO INCLUDE
MENTION OF TSTMS IN EASTERN MTNS/DESERTS FOR MONDAY/TUESDAY.
SAN --00
.SAN...NONE.
BALFOURThe 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
- Heat in Pennsylvania, June 26 to 30, 2001
- Heavy Rain in Washington, June 26 to 27, 2001
- Wildfire in Alaska, June 26 to 29, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, June 26, 2001
- Damaging Winds in Kentucky, June 26, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Florida, June 26, 2001
- Tornado in Wyoming, June 26, 2001
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Montana, June 26, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, June 26, 2001
- Hail in Texas, June 26, 2001
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Tennessee, June 26, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Louisiana, June 26, 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: 5252044.