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 30, 8:15 PM PST, 3 hours 45 minutes earlier.
INTERIOR CENTRAL CALIFORNIA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY - HANFORD CA 915 PM PDT MON JUN 30 2003 CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY HIGH TEMPERATURES THIS AFTERNOON WERE 4-8 DEGREES COOLER THAN SUNDAY/S HIGHS...WITH NO VALLEY REPORTING STATIONS IN TRIPLE DIGITS. THIS COOLING WAS PARTIALLY DUE TO SYNOPTICS...AS THE UPPER-LEVEL RIDGE THAT HAD BEEN OVER CENTRAL CALIFORNIA THE LAST SEVERAL DAYS FINALLY MOVED EAST OF THE REGION AS AN UPPER-LEVEL TROUGH DROPPED INTO THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST. SYNOPTIC COOLING ACCOUNTED FOR ABOUT HALF OF THE COOLING SEEN AT THE LOWER LEVELS...AS THE MOUNTAINS ONLY DROOPED 0-3 DEGREES FROM SUNDAY/S HIGHS. THE REST OF THE LOW-LEVEL COOLING WAS DUE TO MARINE AIR PUSHING THROUGH THE SACRAMENTO DELTA AND INTO THE SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY. THE PROFILER AT FORT ORD INDICATED THAT THE MARINE LAYER IS ABOUT 2000 FEET DEEP THIS EVENING. THE SURFACE-PRESSURE GRADIENTS ARE ONSHORE...ALTHOUGH ONLY THE SAN FRANCISCO-LAS VEGAS GRADIENT IS STRONG AT 9.6 MB. WINDS AT TRAVIS AFB ARE SOUTHWEST AT 16-17 KT...SO WILL SEE AN ADDITIONAL INFLUX OF MARINE AIR TONIGHT...WITH LOWS A COUPLE OF DEGREES COOLER THAN THIS MORNING. THE NEW 00Z ETA/NGM ARE IN GOOD AGREEMENT WITH TODAY/S 18Z GFS IN TRACKING THE UPPER-LEVEL LOW ACROSS BRITISH COLUMBIA DURING THE NEXT 24 HOURS...AS THE TROUGH SLOWLY SAGS SOUTHWARD. 500-MB HEIGHTS OVER CENTRAL CALIFORNIA ARE FORECAST TO DROP ABOUT 20 METERS BY ALL THREE MODELS...BUT WHILE 1000-500-MB THICKNESSES FALL 20-30 METERS ON THE NGM AND GFS...THICKNESSES ACTUALLY RISE SLIGHTLY ON THE ETA. THIS IS THE RESULT OF THE ETA BEING SLOWER TO MOVE THE SURFACE THERMAL TROUGH EASTWARD. MODEL NUMERICAL GUIDANCE INDICATES PERSISTENCE THE NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS...ALTHOUGH DO EXPECT CONTINUED COOLING AT THE LOWER LEVELS /CENTRAL AND SOUTH VALLEY AND THE FOOTHILLS/ AS THE MODELS HAVE TROUBLE WITH MARINE AIR PUSHES. THE OTHER FORECAST CONCERN THIS EVENING IS WINDS OVER THE KERN COUNTY MOUNTAINS AND DESERTS. THE WS ETA FORECASTS 20-25 KT WEST WINDS OVER EASTERN KERN COUNTY THROUGH 12Z...WITH LOCAL WINDS TO 30 KTS. HAVE SEEN A FEW STRONG GUSTS THROUGH AND BELOW FAVORED CANYONS ALTHOUGH WINDS HAVE STAYED MOSTLY BELOW ADVISORY CRITERIA. CURRENT FORECAST HAS REFERENCE TO GUSTY DESERT WINDS TONIGHT...SO DO NOT PLAN ANY UPDATED. STRONGEST WINDS ARE LOCALIZED NEAR THE WALKER PASS AT THIS TIME...SO WILL COVER SPECIFICS WITH NOWCASTS AND NOT UPDATE THE FORECAST. .HNX...NONE. SANGER
CAZ089>099-011230- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HANFORD CA 530 AM PDT MON JUN 30 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE CENTRAL CALIFORNIA INTERIOR. .DAY ONE...TODAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY 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.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 wildfire. Local standard time, as filed.
The Tejon Fire burned 1155 acres in the Tehachapi Mountains of Kern County. See the month of June for further details.
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, July 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: 5367127.