A wildfire burned 60 acres, destroyed several storage sheds, scorched several residences, and forced the evacuation of residents and livestock before it was brought under control by more than 200 firefighters.
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The episode as NWS SGX wrote it up.
A wildfire burned 60 acres, destroyed several storage sheds, scorched several residences, and forced the evacuation of residents and livestock before it was brought under control by more than 200 firefighters.
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 Sep 16, 8:30 AM PST, 3 hours 20 minutes earlier.
EXTREME SOUTHWESTERN CALIFORNIA AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN DIEGO CA
930 AM PDT SUN SEP 16 2001
...SYNOPSIS...
ONSHORE FLOW AND THE MARINE LAYER WILL CONTINUE NIGHT AND MORNING LOW
CLOUDS AND FOG WEST OF THE MOUNTAINS. OTHERWISE...DRY WEST FLOW ALOFT
WILL KEEP THE WEATHER FAIR.
...DISCUSSION...
LOW CLOUDS/FOG WERE INTO MOST COASTAL AREAS AND W PORTION OF INLAND SAN
VALLEYS THIS AM...OTHERWISE CLEAR. THERE WAS ALSO A WEAK EDDY THIS AM.
12Z NKX SOUNDING HAD INVERSION BASED NEAR 1500 FT WITH DRY WLY WINDS
ALOFT. GRADIENTS CONTINUE TO TREND ONSHORE WITH ABOUT 6 MB SAN-IPL.
UPPER TROUGH MOVES PAST TO THE N BY LATE IN THE DAY MON FOLLOWED BY WEAK
RIDGING TUE INTO WED. WILL PROBABLY HAVE WEAK EDDY AGAIN TONIGHT FOR
CONTINUED DEEPENING OF MARINE LAYER. RIDGING AND A LITTLE WEAKER ONSHORE
GRADIENTS TUE/WED SHOULD RESULT IN SOME DECREASE IN MARINE LAYER AND A
LITTLE WARMING. OTHERWISE...DRY WLY FLOW ALOFT FOR FAIR WEATHER.
LONGER RANGE PROGS SLOWLY DEEPEN ANOTHER TROUGH OVER THE W COAST FOR
DEEPENING MARINE LAYER AND COOLING TREND THROUGH THE END OF THE WEEK.
.SAN...NONE.
ATKINThe 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.
Every storm in California in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in California, September 2001
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