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 3, 8:00 AM PST, 2 hours 19 minutes earlier.
INTERIOR CENTRAL CALIFORNIA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HANFORD CA 900 AM PDT THU JUL 3 2003 TEMPERATURES ARE RUNNING ONE TO FIVE DEGREES WARMER IN THE SJ VLY THAN 24 HRS AGO. THIS TREND IS REFLECTED NICELY IN CURRENT ZONE FCST PKG...PUTTING MAX TEMPS IN MOST LOCALES A SHADE UNDER THE CENTURY MARK TODAY. ALTHO STRATUS IS MORE PREVALENT ALONG THE CENTRAL CA COAST THIS MORNING THAN PREVIOUS MORNINGS...THE MARINE LAYER IS SHALLOW...ONLY ABOUT 1K FT DEEP ACCORDING TO THE 12Z SOUNDING AT OAK AND FORT ORD. ONSHORE GRADIENTS ARE EQUIVALENT TO WHAT THEY WERE AT THIS TIME YESTERDAY...AND TOO WEAK TO PUSH MARINE AIR THIS FAR INLAND. LOOKING AT THE LARGE SCALE PICTURE...A STRONG UPPER LEVEL HIGH PERSISTS OVER THE FOUR CORNERS AREA WHILE AN UPPER LEVEL TROUGH EXTENDS FROM THE PAC NW SOUTHWESTWARD TO A WEAK CLOSED LOW CENTERED NR 37N 137W. SOUTHWESTERLY FLOW ALOFT OVER CA HAS BEEN ENTRAINED WITH SOME HIGH LEVEL MOISTURE AS OBSERVED ON THE LATEST WATER VAPOR IMAGERY. THIS MOISTURE IS NOT A BIG DEAL... HOWEVER...IT WILL AID IN CUMULUS DEVELOPMENT OVER THE HIGH SIERRA AGAIN THIS AFTERNOON. THE 12Z MODELS ARE IN GOOD AGREEMENT AND FORECAST THE FOUR CORNERS HIGH TO RETROGRADE INTO SOUTHERN CA DURING THE NEXT 48 HRS. MINOR RISES IN HEIGHTS...THICKNESSES AND BOUNDARY LAYER TEMPS OVER THE NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS WILL TRANSLATE TO SLIGHTLY HIGHER MAX TEMPS ACROSS THE CWA ON INDEPENDENCE DAY AND SATURDAY. TEMPS LIKELY TO PEAK AT OR ABOVE THE CENTURY MARK IN MOST SJ VLY LOCALES BOTH DAYS. MODELS FORECAST SLOW BREAKDOWN OF UPPER LEVEL RIDGE BEGINNING SUNDAY. SO...MAX TEMPS EARLY NEXT WEEK WILL BE SOMEWHAT LOWER... BUT NOT LOW ENOUGH TO RENDER COOLER WORDING IN FORECAST. .HNX...NONE. DURFEE
CAZ089>099-041115- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HANFORD CA 530 AM PDT THU JUL 3 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...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.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 wildfire. Local standard time, as filed.
The Hunter Fire was fought by the California Division of Forestry and consumed 562 acres. The cause of the fire was unknown but no fatalities occurred nor were any structures lost.
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: 5367226.