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 7, 1:20 PM PST, 40 minutes earlier.
INTERIOR CENTRAL CALIFORNIA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HANFORD CA 220 PM PDT MON JUL 7 2003 AFTERNOON WV/IR IMAGERY SHOWS A WEAK UPPER LOW SPINNING ABOUT 1200 NM SW OF THE CENTRAL CALIFORNIA COASTLINE WHILE A WEAK SHORTWAVE DROPS INTO NORCAL. THIS SHORTWAVE WILL SKIRT TOWARDS THE SNAKE RIVER VALLEY AND ITS IMPACT LOCALLY WILL BE LIMITED TO SUSTAINING THE ROBUST P-GRADS ACROSS THE DISTRICT THROUGH THE EVENING HOURS...RESULTING IN LOCALLY GUSTY WINDS ACROSS THE FAVORED PASSES AND CANYONS OF THE KERN MOUNTAINS AS WELL AS THE KERN DESERTS. BUT WITH THE AFOREMENTIONED IMPULSE DEPARTING...THE DEPTH OF THE MARINE LAYER SHOULD ALSO BEGIN TO ERODE. THUS...SUBSEQUENT DAYS WILL FIND THE MARINE INFLUENCE INTO THE VALLEY VIRTUALLY ELIMINATED. STILL...THE RESIDUAL AIR ALREADY POOLED IN THE VALLEY WILL TAKE A DAY OR TWO TO FULLY SCOUR OUT. HOWEVER...THE HIGHER TERRAIN WILL BE FULLY SUBJECT TO THE 30-50 METER HEIGHT RISES AT H5 TOMORROW...AND ANOTHER 10-20 METERS THE FOLLOWING DAY. TEMPS AT H85 REMAIN FAIRLY UNCHANGED TOMORROW...AND UNDERGO 2-3 DEG C WARMING ON WEDNESDAY. A FURTHER 2 DEG C OF HEATING IS PROGGED FOR THURSDAY. ALL THE WHILE...THE SURFACE THERMAL TROUGH IS FORECAST TO PROPAGATE TO THE COAST LATE TUESDAY NIGHT AND ESPECIALLY BY WEDNESDAY NIGHT...WITH RELATIVELY WEAK WINDS AND ALL OUT HOT CONDITIONS BEING THE RESULT. BASED ON PROJECTED H85 TEMPS...RECORD HIGHS MAY BE IN JEOPARDY BY LATE WEEK. IN THE EXTENDED FORECAST PERIOD /FRIDAY THRU MONDAY/...THE STRONG DOME OF HIGH PRESSURE WILL CONTINUE OVER THE REGION FRIDAY AND SATURDAY WITH 594+ HEIGHTS OVER THE CWA. THE SYNOPTIC WARMING WILL REINFORCED BY OFFSHORE FLOW AS THE SURFACE THERMAL TROUGH REMAINS NEAR THE COAST. FRIDAY LIKELY TO BE THE WARMEST DAY THIS WEEK WITH GFS INDICATING 850MB TEMPERATURES OF 31C. SATURDAY SHOULD BE A CLOSE SECOND WITH 30C AT 850MB. PROGS BRING AN UPPER LEVEL TROUGH INTO THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST AND NORTHERN CALIFORNIA SUNDAY AND MONDAY. THIS WILL BRING SOME RELIEF FROM THE EXTREME HEAT...AS HEIGHTS LOWER A BIT...850MB TEMPS LOWER TO ABOUT 26C...AND LOW LEVEL PRESSURE GRADIENTS STRENGTHEN AND TURN ONSHORE. .HNX...NONE. BURGER/BEAN
CAZ089>099-081230- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HANFORD CA 530 AM PDT MON JUL 7 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 Pump Fire was fought by Kern County Fire Department and burned 747 acres. Its cost and cause is unknown but no fatalities occurred nor were any structures lost.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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