Wildfire, San Bernardino
- When
- March 2, 12:45 PM PST to 2:00 PM PST
- Where
- San Bernardino County, Grand Terrace
- Property damage
- $5,000
- Reported by
- NEWSPAPER
- Coordinates
- 34.841, -116.178 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Wildfire in California, March 2, 2002
A wild fire fanned by 30-40 mph winds, consumed a 20 foot by 20 foot stack of wooden pallets and 5 acres of brush before it was put out.
Where it happened
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- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $5,000
- 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.
A wild fire fanned by 30-40 mph winds, consumed a 20 foot by 20 foot stack of wooden pallets and 5 acres of brush before it was put out.
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 Mar 2, 9:30 AM PST, 3 hours 15 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 2, 9:30 AM PST, 3 hours 15 minutes before
EXTREME SOUTHWESTERN CALIFORNIA AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN DIEGO CA 930 AM PST SAT MAR 2 2002 .SYNOPSIS...OFFSHORE FLOW WILL CAUSE LOCAL GUSTY WINDS THROUGH AND BELOW MOUNTAIN CANYONS AND PASSES AT TIMES INTO SUNDAY. THE OFFSHORE FLOW AND WEAK HIGH PRESSURE ALOFT WILL KEEP SKIES MOSTLY CLEAR WITH WARMER DAYS THROUGH MONDAY. UPPER LEVEL LOW PRESSURE WILL BRING MORE CLOUDS AND COOLING TOWARD THE END OF NEXT WEEK. .DISCUSSION...THERE WERE A FEW PATCHES OF LOW CLOUDS/FOG W OF THE MOUNTAINS THIS AM...OTHERWISE CLEAR. 12Z NKX SOUNDING HAD A SHALLOW MOIST LAYER WITH WEAK NE WINDS IN LOW LEVELS AND STRONG NW WINDS ALOFT. OFFSHORE GRADIENTS WITH ABOUT -8 MB SAN-TPH. UPPER TROUGH CONTINUES TO MOVE FARTHER AWAY TO OUR E TODAY TAKING MUCH OF THE UPPER LEVEL AND THERMAL SUPPORT FOR STRONG OFFSHORE WINDS WITH IT. HOWEVER...STILL ENOUGH SUPPORT FOR SOME WINDS TODAY INTO SUN BUT THEY WILL PROBABLY NOT REACH WARNING STRENGTH IN THE INLAND EMPIRE OR SNA MOUNTAINS. IF WINDS DO NOT PICK UP BY 18Z WILL LOWER THESE WARNINGS TO ADVISORIES. STILL SOME OFFSHORE GRADIENTS FROM THE E MON AND MAY CONTINUE TO GET SOME WINDS IN SAN MOUNTAINS...BUT BELOW ADVISORY STRENGTH. WEAK RIDGING ALOFT INTO MON AND CONTINUED WEAK OFFSHORE FLOW FOR WARMING TREND. OFFSHORE FLOW WILL KEEP STRATUS AWAY BUT COULD GET SOME HI CLOUDS MON. UPPER RIDGE WEAKENS TUE AND WEAK ONSHORE FLOW DEVELOPS FOR SOME COOLING AND NIGHT/MORNING COASTAL LOW CLOUDS/FOG. LONGER RANGE PROGS INDICATE FLATTENING RIDGE BUT STILL RELATIVELY HI HEIGHTS INTO WED. SHORT WAVE MAY MOVE THROUGH THU/FRI FOR MORE CLOUDS AND COOLING WITH SOME CHANCE OF PRECIP. LOOKS LIKE ZONAL FLOW SAT WITH GRADUALLY RISING HEIGHTS. .SAN...HIGH WIND WARNINGS AND WIND ADVISORIES...SEE LAXNPWSAN. ATKIN
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
- Winter Storm and Extreme Cold in Texas, March 2 to 3, 2002
- Heavy Snow in Michigan, March 2 to 3, 2002
- Winter Storm in Missouri, March 2, 2002
- Heavy Snow in Wisconsin, March 2, 2002
- Heavy Snow in Oklahoma, March 2, 2002
- Winter Storm in Michigan, March 2 to 4, 2002
- Winter Storm in Wisconsin, March 2 to 3, 2002
- Winter Storm in Missouri, March 2, 2002
- Winter Storm in Illinois, March 2 to 3, 2002
- Winter Storm in Arkansas, March 2, 2002
- High Wind in Florida, March 2, 2002
- Heavy Rain in Pennsylvania, March 2 to 3, 2002
More
Every storm in California in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in California, March 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: 5281710.