1 drought, 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 Mar 30, 9:35 PM PST, 2 hours 26 minutes earlier.
INTERIOR CENTRAL CALIFORNIA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY - HANFORD CA 935 PM PST FRI MAR 30 2001 SKIES CONTINUE MOSTLY CLEAR OVER CENTRAL CALIFORNIA. A FEW CIRRUS OVER THE REGION ASSOCIATED WITH A WEAK VORTICITY NEAR 27N/123W. ALSO HAD A FEW AFTERNOON/EVENING CUMULUS ALONG THE SOUTHERN SIERRA NEVADA FOOTHILLS. DOMINANT WEATHER FEATURE FOR THE NEXT 24-36 HOURS WILL BE THE UPPER- LEVEL RIDGE OVER THE EASTERN PACIFIC AND CALIFORNIA. TEMPERATURES IN THE CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY WERE AROUND 10 DEGREES ABOVE NORMAL...IN THE UPPER 70S TO MID 80S. TEMPERATURES WILL WARM A FEW DEGREES SATURDAY WITH 1-2 DEGREES C TEMPERATURE RISES FORECAST AT 850 MB. SATURDAY WILL BE THE WARMEST DAY OF THE PERIOD...AS THE 00Z MODELS FORECAST A SHORT-WAVE TROUGH TO DROP OUT OF THE EASTERN GULF OF ALASKA SATURDAY AND MOVE INTO THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST... BEGINNING TO WEAKEN THE RIDGE. 850-MB TEMPERATURES SUNDAY WILL FALL TO TODAY/S READINGS OVER THE NORTH-CENTRAL VALLEY...WITH LITTLE CHANGE OVER THE SOUTH VALLEY AND THE KERN COUNTY MOUNTAINS/DESERTS. TEMPERATURES IN THE CURRENT FORECAST PACKAGE LOOK GOOD...AND NO CHANGES PLANNED. MAJOR SHIFT IN THE WEATHER PATTERN IS FORECAST FOR EARLY NEXT WEEK. A STRONG UPPER-LEVEL TROUGH DROPS OUT OF THE EASTERN GULF OF ALASKA SUNDAY MORNING...AND INTO THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST BY 06Z MONDAY. THE 00Z MODELS FORECAST THE ASSOCIATED COLD FRONT TO MOVE INTO NORTHERN CALIFORNIA SUNDAY AFTERNOON...AND INTO THE NORTHERN PART OF THE HANFORD WARNING/FORECAST AREA SUNDAY NIGHT. THE TIMING ON THE 00Z MODELS IS SLIGHTLY SLOWER THAN FORECAST BY THIS MORNING/S RUNS... BUT DIFFERENCES ARE MINOR GIVEN THE TIME FRAME AND WILL NOT MAKE ANY CHANGES TO THE EXTENDED FORECAST. THE 00Z AVN BRINGS THE TROUGH AXIS OVER CENTRAL CALIFORNIA BY 18Z MONDAY AND INTO NEVADA MONDAY NIGHT. THE AVN RETROGRESSES THE TROUGH WEDNESDAY AS AN UPPER-LEVEL RIDGE BUILDS INTO THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST...WITH A CUT-OFF LOW FORMING OVER CENTRAL CALIFORNIA. THE AVN DOES NOT FORECAST HIGH 850-700 MB RELATIVE HUMIDITIES OVER THE SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY UNTIL TUESDAY NIGHT...SO CURRENT TIMING OF A SLIGHT CHANCE OF SHOWERS OVER THE CENTRAL/SOUTH VALLEY WEDNESDAY LOOKS GOOD. THE SOUTHERN SIERRA NEVADA HAS A BETTER CHANCE OF FRONTAL/POST-FRONTAL RAIN/SNOW SHOWERS FOR THE FIRST HALF OF THE WEEK. EXPECT WINDS TO PICK UP SUNDAY NIGHT/MONDAY OVER THE MOUNTAINS AND DESERTS AS THE COLD FRONT MOVES THROUGH...THEN CONTINUING TUESDAY WITH SUBSIDENCE ALOFT AS THE COLD AIRMASS MOVES IN BEHIND THE FRONT. TEMPERATURES WILL DROP CONSIDERABLY WITH THIS SYSTEM...AND THE REGION COULD SEE AS MUCH AS A 15-20 DEGREE COOLING FROM SUNDAY TO TUESDAY...DROPPING FROM 10 DEGREES ABOVE NORMAL TO AS MUCH AS 10 DEGREES BELOW. ALL POPS ZERO. SANGER .HNX...NONE.
1 drought. Local standard time, as filed.
Interior Central California continues to run behind normal in regard to water storage during the current water year (7/1/2000 to 6/30/2001). By the end of the month the Southern Sierra Nevada was running only about 65% of the normal water/rainfall for the date with similar percentages for the north part of the state.
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, March 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: 5238042.