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 8, 2:25 AM PST, 2 hours 53 minutes earlier.
INTERIOR CENTRAL CALIFORNIA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HANFORD CA 325 AM PDT TUE JUL 8 2003 SHORTWAVE TROUGH THAT SHIFTED ONSHORE HAS WEAKENED UPPER RIDGE OVER NORCAL WITH COOLER TEMPS ALOFT ON 00Z OAK RAOB. ALTHOUGH WAVE HAS ALSO SUSTAINED MODERATE ONSHORE GRADIENTS...MARINE INVERSION HAS BECOME MORE DIFFUSE ON FORT ORD PROFILER WITH CONSIDERABLY LESS STRATUS DEVELOPMENT ALONG THE COAST. 00Z ETA/GFS PROJECT SW RIDGE EXPANDING NW ACROSS THE DISTRICT THIS AFTERNOON WITH AROUND 1C OF TEMP RECOVERY ALOFT. WHILE THIS SHOULD TRANSLATE INTO SLIGHT WARMING AT THE HIER ELEVS AND IN THE KERN DESERT...MESOETA APPEARS ON TRACK INDICATING 1000 MB TEMPS REMAINING BETWEEN 34-37C IN THE CENTRAL/SOUTH VALLEY DUE TO POOLED MARINE AIR. ONSHORE GRADS SHOULD ALSO CONT TO SUPPORT LOCALLY GUSTY WINDS NEAR PASSES AND CANYONS IN THE KERN MTNS/DESERTS THRU THE EVE HOURS. WHILE CWA WILL REMAIN UNDER DRY RIDGE WED-THURS...00Z ETA/GFS DELAY ONSET OF WESTWARD SHIFT IN SURFACE THERMAL TROUGH AND NOW PROJECT WEAK H5 TROFFINESS LINGERING THROUGH 00Z FRI. NEVERTHELESS...WARMING TREND SHOULD COMMENCE AS LOW LEVEL THICKNESSES CONT TO INCREASE WITH H85 TEMPS APPROACHING 28C BY THURS AFTERNOON. IN THE EXTENDED FORECAST PERIOD /FRIDAY THRU MONDAY/...THE MEDIUM RANGE PROGS ARE IN REAL GOOD AGREEMENT THROUGH SATURDAY. BUT BEGIN TO DIVERGE SUNDAY AND MONDAY. HOT AND DRY CONDITIONS WILL CONTINUE INTO SATURDAY WITH A STRONG DOME OF HIGH PRESSURE ALOFT OVER THE FOUR CORNERS AREA RIDGING NORTHWEST INTO ALBERTA. 500MB HEIGHT OF 594DM REMAIN ACROSS THE CENTRAL CALIFORNIA INTERIOR INTO SATURDAY. 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 NEAR 30C. ALL PROGS INDICATE THE PERSISTENT HOT PATTERN WILL BEGIN TO GIVE WAY SATURDAY WHEN THE RIDGE BEGINS TO FLATTEN AS AN INITIAL SHORT WAVE FROM AN UPPER CUTOFF LOW IN THE GULF OF ALASKA MOVES INTO THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST. HOWEVER THE SIGNIFICANT COOLING WILL REMAIN WELL NORTH OF THE AREA AND SATURDAY WILL REMAIN VERY HOT WITH TEMPERATURES ONLY COOLING A DEGREE OR TWO IN THE VALLEY. THE COOLING TREND WILL CONTINUE SUNDAY AS A SECOND SHORT WAVE REACHES THE PAC NW FURTHER WEAKENING THE RIDGE. BY MONDAY TEMPERATURES SHOULD MOVE TOWARDS NORMAL LEVELS WITH AN UPPER LEVEL TROUGH OVER THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST AND NORTHERN CALIFORNIA BRINGING A COOLER ONSHORE FLOW INTO CENTRAL CALIFORNIA. .HNX...NONE. JSN/MV
CAZ089>099-091230- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HANFORD CA 530 AM PDT TUE JUL 8 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 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 Point Fire was fought by Sequoia National Forest and burned 180 acres. The cause and cost is unknown but no structures or lives were 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: 5367223.