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, 1:50 PM PST, 1 hour 5 minutes earlier.
INTERIOR CENTRAL CALIFORNIA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HANFORD CA 250 PM PDT TUE JUL 8 2003 THE WEATHER STORY CAN BE SUMMED UP IN TWO SHORT WORDS FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE WORK WEEK...HOT AND DRY. WHILE THIS HAS NOT BEEN THE CASE IN THE SJ VLY RECENTLY...THE ATMOSPHERE IS ALREADY IN THE MIDST OF TRANSITION. OVER THE HIGHER TERRAIN... TEMPERATURES THIS AFTERNOON ARE SEVERAL DEGREES WARMER THAN YESTERDAY AFTERNOON. THIS VERY WARM...DRY BLOB OF AIR COVERS THE ENTIRE SW U.S. AND SHOWS UP WELL ON THE LATEST WATER VAPOR IMAGERY. IN THE LOWEST LEVELS OF THE ATMOSPHERE...THE FLOW OF MARITIME AIR THRU THE SAC DELTA IS MUCH WEAKER COMPARED TO 24 HRS AGO AND THE MARINE LAYER ALONG THE COAST REMAINS QUITE SHALLOW... ONLY ABOUT 1K FT DEEP AT FORT ORD AS OF THIS WRITING. THE MODELS ARE IN GOOD AGREEMENT DURING THE NEXT 72 HRS AND BUILD THE FOUR CORNERS HIGH RATHER AGGRESSIVELY INTO CA. IN DOING SO...THE MARINE LAYER WILL GET SQUASHED...AND A SURFACE THERMAL TROUGH WILL BECOME ESTABLISHED ALONG THE COAST. SUBSIDENCE ALOFT WILL BRING MUCH WARMER AIR DOWN TO THE VALLEY FLOOR BY WED AFTN. THE LATEST RUN OF THE MESO-ETA FORECASTS TEMPS WITHIN A DEGREE OR TWO OF 40C IN THE SJ VLY BY 00Z THU. WHILE THIS PARTICULAR MODEL HAS BEEN A LITTLE OVERZEALOUS WITH MAX TEMPS RECENTLY... ONE THING IS CERTAIN...AT LEAST A FEW SJ VLY LOCALES WILL SURPASS THE CENTURY MARK WEDNESDAY AFTN. AS THE UPPER LEVEL RIDGE STRENGTHENS ITS GRIP OVER CENTRAL CA LATER THIS WEEK...THURSDAY AND FRIDAY WILL ONLY GET HOTTER. WIDESPREAD TRIPLE DIGIT HEAT WILL AFFECT THE SJ VLY BOTH DAYS AND NIGHTTIME TEMPS WILL PROBABLY DROP NO LOWER THAN THE 70S IN THE URBAN AREAS. IN THE KERN CO DESERT...THE MERCURY COULD SOAR TO 110 OR HIGHER LATER THIS WEEK WHERE AFTERNOON BREEZES WILL PROVIDE LITTLE COMFORT. NOT THAT THIS IS ALL THAT RELEVANT... BUT OF THE TWO DAYS (THU AND FRI)...FRIDAY IS LIKELY TO BE THE HOTTER ONE AS MODELS FORECAST 850 MB TEMPS TO APPROACH 30C IN THE SJ VLY AND 500 MB HEIGHTS MAX OUT NEAR 597 DM. IN THE EXTENDED FORECAST PERIOD /SATURDAY THRU TUESDAY/...HOT AND DRY CONDITIONS WILL CONTINUE SATURDAY WITH A STRONG DOME OF HIGH PRESSURE ALOFT OVER THE FOUR CORNERS AREA RIDGING NORTHWEST INTO ALBERTA. EXPECT SATURDAY TEMPERATURES TO BE JUST AS HOT AS FRIDAY WITH 500MB HEIGHT OF 597DM REMAIN ACROSS THE CENTRAL CALIFORNIA INTERIOR. ALL PROGS INDICATE THE PERSISTENT HOT PATTERN WILL BEGIN TO GIVE WAY SUNDAY 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. THIS SHOULD COOL TEMPERATURES SEVERAL DEGREES SUNDAY AS HEIGHTS AND 850MB TEMPERATURES BEGIN TO LOWER. BY MON0DAY 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. DURFEE/BEAN
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 Woodlot Fire inside Yosemite National Park burned 458 acres. The cause is unknown but no structures or fatalities occurred.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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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: 5367225.