Wildfire, Riverside
- When
- June 1, 3:00 AM PST to 6:00 AM PST
- Where
- Riverside County, 2 mi NW of (Psp)palm Spgs Arpt
- Property damage
- $95,000
- Reported by
- NEWSPAPER
- Coordinates
- 33.744, -115.994 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Wildfire in California, June 1, 2002
Wind spread flames from a house fire to surrounding brush and consumed a telephone pole.
Where it happened
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The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $95,000
- 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.
Wind spread flames from a house fire to surrounding brush and consumed a telephone pole.
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 1, 2:28 AM PST, 32 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 1, 2:28 AM PST, 32 minutes before
EXTREME SOUTHWESTERN CALIFORNIA AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN DIEGO CA 328 AM PDT SAT JUN 1 2002 .SYNOPSIS...WEAK UPPER LEVEL LOW PRESSURE WILL PROVIDE SEASONAL WEATHER FOR SOUTHWEST CALIFORNIA THROUGH MONDAY WITH COASTAL LOW CLOUDS CLEARING TO THE THE BEACHES EACH AFTERNOON AND LOCALLY GUSTY AFTERNOON AND EVENING WINDS IN THE MOUNTAINS AND DESERTS. FAIR AND WARMER FOR MUCH OF NEXT WEEK AS HIGH PRESSURE BUILDS OVER CALIFORNIA. .DISCUSSION...UPR LOW IS WKNG AND MOVG INLAND ACROSS SW CA IN RESPONSE TO THE PACIFIC TROUGH MOVG EASTWARD TOWARD THE NRN CA CST. THE EFFECT ON SW CA HAS BEEN MINIMAL OTHER THAN TO BRING A RETURN OF WK ONSHORE FLOW AND ALLOW AN EXTENSIVE STRATUS FIELD TO MOVE ONSHR BENEATH A STRONG MARINE INVERSION WITH THE BASE OF THE INVERSION NR 2000 FT. A WK UPR TROUGH WL LINGER OVR SRN CA INTO MON WITH THE MARINE LYR GRADUALLY DEEPENING THRU SUN NIGHT...THEN DECRG IN DEPTH EARLY NEXT WEEK AS HIGH PRESSURE BUILDS OVR CA. HIGH TEMPERATURES WL COOL A LTL THRU SUN...THEN REBOUND EARLY NEXT WEEK TO ABV AVERAGE LVLS BY WED. .SAN...NONE. MARTIN
The 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 Illinois, June 1, 2002
- Heat in Missouri, June 1 to 4, 2002
- Wildfire in California, June 1 to 6, 2002
- Tornado in Idaho, June 1, 2002
- Hail in Iowa, June 1, 2002
- Wildfire in Arizona, June 1 to 10, 2002
- Damaging Winds in Utah, June 1, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Florida, June 1, 2002
- Drought in South Dakota, June 1 to 30, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in North Carolina, June 1, 2002
- Drought in Colorado, June 1 to 30, 2002
- Drought in New Jersey, June 1 to 30, 2002
More
Every storm in California in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in California, June 2002
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: 5297173.