1 wildfire, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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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 Los Angeles, CA wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 1, 1:30 PM PST, 30 minutes earlier.
SOUTHWEST CALIFORNIA AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOS ANGELES/OXNARD CA 230 PM PDT SAT JUN 1 2002 WHILE VALLEYS CLEARED OUT FAIRLY QUICKLY THIS THIS MORNING...ONLY THE LA COUNTY COASTAL SECTIONS HAVE MANAGED TO SEE ANY SUNSHINE THUS FAR. SAT PICS INDICATE LOW CLOUD COVER OVER SLO/SBA/VTY COUNTY COASTS ARE STARTING TO THIN OUT. STILL EXPECT TO SEE AT LEAST PARTIAL CLEARING ACROSS THESE AREAS BEFORE DAYS END. CLEARING WILL BE SHORT-LIVED HOWEVER BEFORE MARINE STRATUS MOVES INLAND DURING THE EVENING. UPPER TROUGH OVER SOCAL WILL MAINTAIN MARINE LAYER DEPTH IN THE BALLPARK OF 2000 FEET THROUGH MONDAY...ALLOWING NIGHT/MORNING STRATUS PARADE TO MARCH INTO THE VALLEYS. EXPECT NEAR PERSISTENT TEMPS TOMORROW...WITH A FEW DEGREES WARMUP MONDAY AS THE TROUGH AXIS SHIFTS EASTWARD DUE TO THE BUILDING EASTPAC RIDGE AND HEIGHTS/THICKNESSES BEGIN TO RECOVER. EXPECT INLAND SECTIONS TO SEE THE LARGEST INCREASES. ONSHORE SURFACE PRESSURE GRADIENT WILL MAINTAIN GUSTY WINDS ACROSS MOUNTAINS AND DESERTS THROUGH MONDAY. MODELS SUGGEST WEAK SUNDOWNER WINDS DEVELOPING ACROSS SBA COUNTY SOUTH COAST BEHIND THE TROUGH AXIS. NO WHOPPING SUBSIDENCE IS SHOWING UP AND MODEL SOUNDINGS KEEP PROFILES FAIRLY STABLE. NONETHELESS...SYNOPTIC SCALE NORTHERLY WINDS PROBABLY ENOUGH TO PRODUCE SOME GUSTY WINDS THROUGH PASSES AND CANYONS. SOME MODEL DISAGREEMENT FOR REMAINDER OF THE WEEK BUT GENERAL CONSENSUS KEEPING RIDGE ALOFT AND MINIMAL SURFACE PRESSURE GRADIENTS. BUILDING HEIGHTS/THICKNESSES WILL LIMIT MARINE INFLUENCE TO COASTAL SECTIONS...ALLOWING MODERATE WARMUP ACROSS COASTAL SECTIONS AND A MORE SIGNIFICANT INCREASE OVER THE INTERIOR. LAX 000. TANABE. .LOX...SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY (SEE LAXCWFLAX).
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 wildfire. Local standard time, as filed.
The Wolf Fire burned 21,278 acres in the Los Padres National Forest. Overall, the fire destroyed six structures.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in California in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in California, June 2002
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: 5296684.