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 27, 8:10 PM PST, 3 hours 50 minutes earlier.
INTERIOR CENTRAL CALIFORNIA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HANFORD CA 910 PM PDT SUN JUL 27 2003 AFTERNOON CONVECTION OVER THE REGION HAS DISSIPATED FOR THE EVE. MODELS SHOW LARGE HIGH OVER THE WRN US BECOMING MORE CENTERED OVER THE GREAT BASIN THE NEXT 24 HRS. A WEAK DELTA BREEZE HAS DEVELOPED THIS EVE...WITH 8PM SFO-SAC GRAD UP 1.5 MBS FROM LAST EVE. 24HR CHANGE SHOWS COOLING CONFINED TO THE IMMEDIATE DELTA...BUT SOME MARINE AIR MAY REACH MCE OR MAE...BUT UNLIKELY ANY FARTHER SOUTH OVERNITE. LITTLE CHANGE SEEN ON ETA IN THICKNESSES MON...BUT 8H TEMPS RISE ANOTHER DEGREE OR TWO FOR ANOTHER DEGREE OR SO WARMING IN THE LOWER ELEVATIONS. ON MON NITE...NEW MODELS DIFFER SOME ON EASTERLY WAVE PROGGED TO MOVE INTO SOCAL. THE ETA IS WEAKER AND FARTHER SOUTH THAN THE NEW GFS. SINCE GFS HAS BEEN DOING A VERY GOOD JOB WITH THE MONSOON THUS FAR...WILL STICK PRETTY CLOSE TO IT. BEST MOISTURE AND DYNAMICS TO BE IN THE SOUTH PART OF THE REGION MON NITE...THEN SPREAD NW TUES. CURRENT ISOLD TSTMS IN THE VALLEY MON NITE MAY BE TOO FAST BASED ON NEW GFS. WILL UPDATE TO REMOVE EVENING WORDING FROM MTNS/DESERTS...NO OTHER CHANGES AT THIS TIME. .HNX...NONE. BINGHAM
CAZ089>099-281230- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY - HANFORD CA 530 AM PDT SUN JUL 27 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE CENTRAL CALIFORNIA INTERIOR. .DAY ONE...TODAY THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS OVER PORTIONS OF THE SOUTHERN SIERRA NEVADA AND THE KERN COUNTY MOUNTAINS TODAY. THESE THUNDERSTORMS MAY CONTAIN GUSTY WINDS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...AND BRIEF HEAVY RAINFALL. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF THUNDERSTORMS OVER PORTIONS OF THE SOUTHERN SIERRA NEVADA AND THE KERN COUNTY MOUNTAINS AND DESERTS THROUGH THURSDAY NIGHT. THE BEST CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THE FOOTHILLS WILL HAVE A SLIGHT RISK OF THUNDERSTORMS FOR TUESDAY THROUGH THURSDAY. MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH THURSDAY NIGHT THERE IS SLIGHT RISK OF THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE CENTRAL AND SOUTH SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY. .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 Williams Fire was lightning started in the wee hours of the morning of July 28th and burned through the month of August as a managed resource fire. No injuries were reported but the fire cost was assessed at $22K.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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