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 Jul 15, 8:10 AM PST, 5 hours 19 minutes earlier.
INTERIOR CENTRAL CALIFORNIA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HANFORD CA 910 AM PDT TUE JUL 15 2003 CENTRAL CA REMAINS UNDER A RELATIVELY DRY SW FLOW ALOFT. SATELLITE LOOPS SHOW MID AND HIGH LEVEL MOISTURE AND CONVECTIVE DEBRIS GRADUALLY MOVING WESTWARD INTO THE SOCAL DESERTS. MORNING SOUNDINGS STILL SHOW MID-LEVEL CAP BETWEEN 20-25K FT...SO TSTM THREAT IN THE SRN SIERRA STILL NIL TODAY. CURRENT TEMPS RUNNING A COUPLE OF DEGS WARMER IN THE SJV THIS MORNING...BUT LITTLE CHANGE IN THE MTNS... FOOTHILLS...AND DESERTS. WHILE A FEW OF THE VALLEY SPOT FCSTS MAY BE A DEGREE OR TWO LOW...THEY WILL FALL INTO WORDING RANGE. NO MORNING UPDATE EXPECTED. CHANGES BEGIN THURS AS MOISTURE AND INSTABILITY BEGIN TO WORK INTO THE REGION FROM THE SE. MORE ON THAT THIS AFTERNOON. .HNX...NONE. BINGHAM
CAZ089>099-161230- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HANFORD CA 530 AM PDT TUE JUL 15 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...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY A SLIGHT CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS ARE FORECASTED FOR THURSDAY THROUGH MONDAY, FOR THE KERN COUNTY MOUNTAINS, THE SIERRA NEVADA FROM YOSEMITE TO KINGS CANYON, AND THE TULARE COUNTY MOUNTAINS. .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 Hillside Fire along Highway 58 and fought by Kern County Fire Department burned 1830 acres. Its cost and cause are unknown but there were no structures or lives lost.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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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: 5367229.