1 wildfire, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Every event with a place to put it; 1 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.
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 Aug 31, 7:45 PM PST, 4 hours 15 minutes earlier.
INTERIOR CENTRAL CALIFORNIA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY - HANFORD CA 845 PM PDT FRI AUG 31 2001 INLAND MARINE INFLUENCE HAS STARTED TO DECREASE TODAY...AND THIS WILL ALLOW LLVL TEMPS AROUND THE SAN JOAQUIN VLLY TO RECOVER SEVERAL DEGREES ON SAT. HIGHLIGHTING THIS EBB IN ONSHORE MARINE INFLUX... 24-HR TRENDS ARE UP 7 DEGF AT TRAVIS AFB, +10 DEGF NEAR SAC AND SCK, AND +12-14 DEGF AT LOS BANOS RAWS. CURRENT TEMPERATURE FCST FROM AFTN PKG LOOKS ON TRACK. NO UPDATES PLANNED THIS EVE. A FEW SHORT-LIVED SHOWERS/TSTMS MANAGED TO FIRE UP FROM AVAILABLE MSTR AND INSTABILITY NEAR AND EAST OF THE SIERRA CREST THIS AFTN. A LITTLE HIGH-ELEVTION RAFL WAS REPORTED NEAR THE TIOGA PASS AT THE YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK BORDER...AND DIED OFF BEFORE 6 PM. .HNX...NONE. LAVIS
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 wildfire. Local standard time, as filed.
See the Hoover Complex Fire in the August 2001 Stormdata for details.
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, September 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: 5266082.