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 Jun 15, 12:25 PM PST, 1 hour 25 minutes earlier.
INTERIOR CENTRAL CALIFORNIA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY - HANFORD CA 125 PM PDT SUN JUN 15 2003 VERY WEAK TROUGH OVER CENTRAL CALIFORNIA TODAY AND MONDAY...BUT HEIGHTS REMAIN HIGH AND TEMPS WILL CONTINUE WARMING OVER THE REGION. MODELS INDICATE SEVERAL DEGREES WARMING AT THE SURFACE AND 850 MB MONDAY AND THIS IS REFLECTED IN THE CURRENT FORECAST. MESO-ETA AND GFS CONTINUE TO INDICATE SOME INSTABILITY AND WEAK CAPES OVER THE SIERRA MONDAY AND TUESDAY...SO SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS LOOKS REASONABLE. INSTABILITY AND CAPES NOT AS FAVORABLE FOR THUNDERSTORMS WEDNESDAY BUT WILL LEAVE MENTION NEAR THE CREST FOR NOW AS AN UPPER LEVEL TROUGH APPROACHES CALIFORNIA WEDNESDAY. THIS SHOULD BE THE START OF A GOOD COOLING TREND AS THE TROUGH DEEPENS THE MARINE LAYER ALONG THE COAST AND INCREASES THE ONSHORE WIND FLOW. FOR THE EXTENDED FORECAST PERIOD (THU THRU SUN)...LONG RANGE MODELS CONSISTENT CARRYING FULL LATITUDE TROUGH EASTWARD ACROSS CA THU BUT BEGIN TO DIFFER BY DAY 5. THE GFS AND UKMET CONTINUE TO FORECAST FORMATION OF WEAK UPPER LEVEL LOW NEAR THE SOUTHERN CA COAST BY LATE IN THE WEEK WHILE THE CANADIAN GLOBAL AND ECM ARE MUCH WEAKER WITH THIS IDEA AND MAINTAIN EASTWARD PROGRESSION OF UPPER LEVEL TROUGH. ONE THING ALL SOLNS AGREE ON IS THE POSITION OF NORTHERN BRANCH OF THE JET FROM THE PAC NW INTO THE NORTHERN ROCKIES DURING THE PERIOD. NONE OF THIS HAS ANY STRONG WEATHER SIGNIFICANCE ACROSS OUR CWA. THIS WOULD FAVOR A DRY WEATHER PATTERN EVEN OVER THE HIGHER ELEVATIONS OF THE SIERRA THU...BUT WITH SUCH LOW CONFIDENCE IN THE MODELS...WILL LEAVE SLIGHT CHC POPS NEAR THE CREST ALONE FOR NOW. OTHERWISE...SUBSTANTIALLY COOLER WEATHER IN THE OFFING THU AND FRI...AIDED BY STRONG MARINE PUSH IN THE SJ VLY AND SYNOPTIC COOLING ELSEWHERE. THE MODELS BUILD AN UPPER LEVEL RIDGE OVER CA NEXT WEEKEND WITH A RESULTANT WARMING TREND. .HNX...NONE. BEAN/DURFEE
CAZ089>099-161230- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HANFORD CA 530 AM PDT SUN JUN 15 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...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY A SLIGHT CHANCE FOR AFTERNOON AND EVENING THUNDERSTORMS IN THE SOUTHERN SIERRA NEVADA MAINLY AT THE HIGHER ELEVATIONS FOR MONDAY THROUGH THURSDAY, ALSO FOR THE TULARE COUNTY MOUNTAINS FOR TUESDAY...OTHERWISE NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED. .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 152 Fire was of unknown origin and burned 2750 acres in Western Merced County. The cost of the fire was unknown but no structures were lost nor were there any injuries.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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