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, 8:15 AM PST, 5 hours 2 minutes earlier.
INTERIOR CENTRAL CALIFORNIA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HANFORD CA 915 AM PDT TUE JUL 8 2003 LATEST PROFILERS IN THE SJ VLY INDICATE THE PRESENCE OF A VERY SHALLOW MARINE LAYER THIS MORNING...APPROXIMATELY 500 FT DEEP. 24 HR TEMPERATURE TRENDS ARE AVERAGING TWO TO FOUR DEGREES COOLER AS WELL. AN ABSENCE OF STRATUS ALONG THE CENTRAL CA COAST IS AN INDICATION THAT THE MARINE LAYER HAS COMPLETELY MIXED OUT. ALTHO ONSHORE GRADIENTS ARE WEAKENING...THEY STILL REMAIN RESPECTABLE AT THIS HOUR...AVERAGING CLOSE TO 8.0 MB BETWEEN SFO AND LAS. THIS WILL KEEP AFTERNOON TEMPS IN THE SJ VLY ON THE COMFORTABLE SIDE OF NORMAL TODAY. MEANWHILE...THE UPPER ATMOSPHERE IS UNDERGOING MAJOR WARMING...THANKS TO A STRONG RIDGE ALOFT CENTERED OVER THE FOUR CORNERS REGION. THE MODELS BUILD THIS RIDGE AGGRESSIVELY WESTWARD INTO CA DURING THE NEXT 72 HRS. THIS WILL SET THE STAGE FOR HOTTER WEATHER IN THE DAYS TO COME. CURRENT ZONE FORECAST REFLECTS THIS TREND PRETTY WELL. LOCALLY GUSTY WINDS STILL A CONCERN IN THE KERN COUNTY MTNS AND DESERT TODAY. HOWEVER...AS ONSHORE GRADIENTS SLACKEN AND THE SURFACE THERMAL TROUGH BECOMES ESTABLISHED ALONG THE COAST...WINDS IN THIS REGION SHOULD ABATE PRETTY NICELY BY LATE TONIGHT. .HNX...NONE. DURFEE
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 North Fork Fire was fought by California Division of Forestry and burned 360 acres. The cause was human but no fatalities or structures 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: 5367224.