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 Hanford, CA wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 2, 2:10 PM PST, 3 hours 50 minutes earlier.
INTERIOR CENTRAL CALIFORNIA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY - HANFORD CA 310 PM PDT SUN JUN 2 2002 GOES SATELLITE LOOP SHOWS CUMULUS DEVELOPMENT OVER THE SOUTHERN SIERRA NEVADA THIS AFTERNOON...AND A FEW TOWERING CUMULUS ARE VISIBLE FROM THE FORECAST OFFICE. HANFORD DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR SHOWS A COUPLE OF SHOWERS OR THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE CREST IN TULARE COUNTY...SO WILL KEEP REFERENCE TO SLIGHT CHANCE OVER THE HIGHER TERRAIN THIS EVENING. THE MARINE LAYER AT FORT ORD HAS LOWERED TO ABOUT 3000 FEET THIS AFTERNOON. THE VISALIA PROFILER SHOWS THAT THE MARINE AIR IS MIXING OUT...AND CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY TEMPERATURES HAVE RECOVERED TO ONLY 4-7 DEGREES BELOW 24 HOURS EARLIER. HOWEVER...ONE LAST SHORT WAVE IS DROPPING THROUGH NORTHERN CALIFORNIA THIS AFTERNOON...AND MAY CAUSE A TEMPORARY REBOUND IN THE MARINE LAYER OVERNIGHT AS THE WAVE MOVES THROUGH CENTRAL CALIFORNIA. HIGH PRESSURE ALOFT BEGINS BUILDING INTO THE STATE FROM THE EASTERN PACIFIC MONDAY...TO FLATTEN THE MARINE LAYER AND INCREASE TEMPERATURES. WINDS HAVE PICKED UP AT SOME DESERT LOCATIONS THIS AFTERNOON AS THE SHORT WAVE APPROACHES...SO WILL KEEP REFERENCE TO 20-30 MPH DESERT WINDS THIS EVENING. DO NOT EXPECT WINDS TO REACH ADVISORY LEVELS EXCEPT POSSIBLY LOCALLY BELOW THE PASSES THIS EVENING. BOTH THE ETA AND AVN HAVE SOME TIGHTENING OF THE SURFACE GRADIENTS MONDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING...SO WILL GO WITH REFERENCE TO LOCALLY BREEZY CONDITIONS THROUGH AND BELOW THE KERN COUNTY MOUNTAIN PASSES. FORECAST CONCERN THIS AFTERNOON...OTHER THAN MOUNTAIN CONVECTION... IS THE RETURN OF TRIPLE-DIGIT HEAT TO THE VALLEY AND DESERTS FOR MIDWEEK. BOTH THE 12Z ETA AND 18Z AVN HAVE 2-3 DEGREES C WARMING AT 850 MB BY MONDAY AFTERNOON...WITH ANOTHER 3-4 DEGREES C WARMING FOR DAY 2...AND ANOTHER DEGREE C WARMING FOR WEDNESDAY. ALTHOUGH THE AMOUNT OF WARMING MONDAY FOR THE VALLEY AND FOOTHILLS WILL BE DEPENDENT ON HOW FAST THE MARINE AIR MIXES OUT...THE MOUNTAIN AND DESERT AREAS SHOULD SEE 6-8 DEGREES F WARMING MONDAY AND AGAIN TUESDAY. THE MEDIUM-RANGE MODELS ARE IN FAIR AGREEMENT WITH ANOTHER TROUGH APPROACHING CALIFORNIA BY FRIDAY...WITH INITIAL WEAKENING OF THE RIDGE WEDNESDAY FOR A TAPERING OFF OF THE WARMING TREND. /BUT STILL UNSEASONABLY HOT...WITH MOST...IF NOT ALL...THE VALLEY AND LOWER FOOTHILLS SEEING TRIPLE DIGIT HEAT./ FOR THURSDAY...THE RIDGE FLATTENS AND THE 12Z AVN FORECASTS LITTLE CHANGE IN 850-MB TEMPERATURES. THEN A FEW DEGREES COOLING FRIDAY INTO THE WEEKEND AS A WEAK TROUGH MOVES INTO THE STATE. DRY WEATHER IS EXPECTED THROUGH THE FORECAST PERIOD. ALL POPS ZERO. SANGER .HNX...NONE.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 wildfire. Local standard time, as filed.
The Rocky Fire originated from unknown causes and burned 498 acres. No structures were lost nor were there any fatalities or injuries.
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: 5296516.