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 Nov 27, 9:42 AM PST, 2 hours 18 minutes earlier.
INTERIOR CENTRAL CALIFORNIA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HANFORD CA 930 AM PST WED NOV 26 2002 BAND OF DENSE FOG EARLY THIS MORN IS AFFECTING MAINLY THE LOWEST ELEVATION PORTIONS OF THE SAN JOAQUIN VLLY IN LARGELY RURAL SECTIONS. EXTENT OF THE DENSE FOG HAS BEEN JUST UNDER ADVISORY CRITERIA SO HAVE HELD OFF ON AN ADVIS ISSUANCE AND CONTINUE HIGHLIGHTING DENSE SPOTS WITH NOWCASTS. FOG MAY CUT BACK ON MAX TEMPS A BIT TODAY SO MAY ADJUST SLIGHTLY DOWN FOR THURS IF NEEDED. OTHERWISE CURRENT FORECAST LOOKS MAINLY ON TRACK WITH NO UPDATES PLANNED THIS MORN. SOME E-NE WIND GUSTS PERSISTING OVER EXPOSED RIDGES IN TULARE AND KERN MTNS BUT A GREAT DEAL LOWER THAN MON/TUE. THE MAIN FORECAST CONCERNS WILL BE FRI-SAT AS UPPER LOW MAKES A RETURN VISIT BACK INTO CA. LATEST AVN AND ETA PROGS ARE COMING INTO CLOSE AGREEMENT ON TIMING AND TRACK OF SYSTEM CENTER APPROACHING THE L.A. BASIN FRI...AND PASSING NEARLY OVERHEAD ON SAT. THIS DOES PUT THE DISTRICT INTO THE FAVORABLE NE QUAD OF SYSTEM FRI AFTN-FRI NITE SO WILL EXAMINE THE NEED TO POSSIBLY INCREASE POPS FURTHER ON THIS AFTN PKG. COLD TEMPS ALOFT ASSOCIATED WITH THE UPPER LOW WILL ALSO STEEPEN THE LAPSE RATES AND INCREASE CAPES FOR A POSSIBILITY OF TSTMS AND LOCALLY HEAVIER CONVECTIVE SHOWERS. WILL EXAMINE THIS CLOSER FOR AFTN PKG. .HNX...NONE.
CAZ089>099-281330- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HANFORD CA 530 AM PST WED NOV 27 2002 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE CENTRAL CALIFORNIA INTERIOR. .DAY ONE... PATCHES OF DENSE FOG WILL AFFECT PORTIONS OF THE CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY THROUGH MID-MORNING...WITH VISIBILITY REDUCED TO A FEW HUNDRED FEET AT TIMES. VISIBILITY WILL RISE ABOVE ONE-QUARTER MILE THROUGHOUT THE VALLEY BY LATE MORNING. OTHERWISE NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY PATCHY DENSE FOG WILL OCCUR NIGHT AND MORNING HOURS IN THE CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY. OTHERWISE NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... WEATHER SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER CONDITIONS TO THEIR LOCAL NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE. BINGHAM
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 wildfire. Local standard time, as filed.
The cause of the Rock Creek fire is unknown but it burned 420 acres before containment by Sierra NF crews.
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, November 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: 5324743.