1 wildfire, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Every event with a place to put it; 1 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.
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 Jul 31, 8:30 PM PST, 3 hours 30 minutes earlier.
INTERIOR CENTRAL CALIFORNIA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HANFORD CA 930 PM PDT THU JUL 31 2003 VORTMAX THAT MOVED THRU THE AREA THIS AFTERNOON TRIGGERED TSTMS WHICH PRODUCED FLASH FLOODING IN THE TEHACHAPIS LATE AFTERNOON. RADAR RAIN ESTIMATES WERE IN THE 5-6 INCH RANGE JUST WEST OF TEHACHAPI. OBSERVED DATA SHOWS 1-3 INCHES OCCURRED IN SPOTS. CHP REPORTED PART OF HIGHWAY 58 CLOSED NEAR MILE MARKER 87 DUE TO A MUDSLIDE. OTHERWISE...MUCH OF THE TSTM ACTIVITY ACROSS THE FA HAS DIED OFF. NEW ETA SHOWS ANOTHER VORTMAX MOVING ACROSS THE AREA FRI AFTERNOON FOR MORE MTN TSTMS. AS THE AREA WILL REMAIN IN A SE FLOW ALOFT...SOME CHANCE OF ADDITIONAL TSTMS IN THE VALLEY...MAINLY SOUTH END. WILL UPDATE SOUTH VALLEY ZONE TO INDICATE THIS. OTHERWISE SHORT TERM FCST LOOKS GOOD. .HNX...FLOOD WARNING FOR THE KERN COUNTY MOUNTAINS UNTIL 1130 PM. BINGHAM
CAZ089>099-011230- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY - HANFORD CA 530 AM PDT THU JUL 31 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE CENTRAL CALIFORNIA INTERIOR. .DAY ONE...TODAY THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS OVER PORTIONS OF THE SOUTHERN SIERRA NEVADA...THE KERN COUNTY DESERTS...AND THE CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY. ANY OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS MAY CONTAIN GUSTY WINDS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...AND BRIEF HEAVY RAINFALL. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... WEATHER SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER CONDITIONS TO THEIR LOCAL NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE.
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY CA
1033 PM PDT THU JUL 31 2003
TIME(PDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0825 PM TEHACHAPI CA FLASH FLOOD
07/31/03 KERN THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCED
HEAVY AMOUNTS OF RAIN...
WITH OBSERVED VALUES OF
OF 1-2 INCHES IN TOWN.
RADAR ESTIMATES SHOWED
ISOLATED 6 INCH AMOUNT
JUST WEST OF TOWN.
WESTBOUND HIGHWAY 58
CLOSED NEAR MILE MARKER 87
DUE TO MUD-SLIDE.
OTHER RURAL ROADS CLOSED
DUE TO FLOODING. NO
INJURIES REPORTED FROM
EVENT.
BINGHAMThe national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 wildfire. Local standard time, as filed.
The China Fire started in July and was contained late in the day on August 4th...see July Stormdata.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in California in 2003Every state in 2003This day in weather historyWarnings in California, August 2003
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: 5332493.