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 16, 7:40 PM PST, 1 hour 42 minutes earlier.
INTERIOR CENTRAL CALIFORNIA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY - HANFORD CA 840 PM PDT MON JUN 16 2003 KHNX 88D INDICATING ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUING NEAR THE SIERRA CREST IN YOSEMITE PARK...BUT COVERAGE AND INTENSITY ARE DECREASING AS DIURNAL COOLING IS LEADING TO AIRMASS STABILIZATION. ONE THUNDERSTORM CELL OVER NORTHERN YOSEMITE PARK ACTUALLY HAD A 40 VIL AND 56 DBZ FOR ONE SCAN AT 504 PM BEFORE RAPIDLY DIMINISHING. SAT PICS INDICATING SKIES REMAINED MAINLY CLEAR AWAY FROM THE MOUNTAINS. MEANWHILE...TEMPERATURES IN THE SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY ARE GENERALLY RUNNING ABOUT 3 TO 5 DEG F ABOVE WHAT THEY WERE YDAY AT THIS TIME. RAWS INDICATING MOUNTAIN TEMPS ARE GENERALLY RUNNING 4 TO 7 DEG F WARMER. WITH 00Z ETA/MESO/NGM INDICATING CONTINUING RISES IN HEIGHTS AND DIURNAL THICKNESSES OVERNIGHT AS A SOUTHWESTERN CONUS RIDGE CONTINUES TO BUILD...TONIGHT/S LOWS SHOULD BE WELL ABOVE THIS MORNING/S. BASED ON CURRENT RAWS AND METAR OBSERVATIONS AND TRENDS WILL NEED TO UPDATE THE ZONE PACKAGE TO RAISE TONIGHT/S LOWS IN SOME LOCATIONS. WILL ALSO REMOVE MENTION OF MOUNTAIN POPS SOUTH OF KINGS CANYON AS T-STORMS NEVER DEVELOPED SOUTH OF THE MADERA/FRESNO COUNTY BORDER TODAY. 850 MB TEMPS ARE PROGGED TO RISE BY 4-5 DEG C BY TUESDAY AFTERNOON SUGGESTING THAT PROJECTED HIGHS ABOVE THE CENTURY MARK ARE IN STORE FOR MUCH OF THE VALLEY...FOOTHILLS AND KERN DESERTS TUESDAY. DON/T EXPECT ANY RELIEF FROM OFFSHORE TONIGHT AS P-GRADS ARE WEAK AND PROFILER DATA IS INDICATING THAT THE MARINE LAYER AT FORT ORD IS CURRENTLY ONLY 1200 FEET DEEP. CONTINUED WRAP AROUND UPPER FLOW PATTERN WILL ALLOW FOR ENOUGH MOISTURE TO FUEL YET ANOTHER ROUND OF AFTERNOON/EVENING THUNDERSTORMS NEAR THE CREST AGAIN TUESDAY... ESPECIALLY NORTH OF KINGS CANYON WHERE THE 00Z MESO IS INDICATING CAPES BETWEEN 100 TO 400 J/KG AND LI/S FROM -3 TO -5. AN UPPER TOUGH...NOW LOCATED NEAR 145W...IS PROGGED TO APPROACH THE COAST WEDNESDAY AND CROSS THE STATE THURSDAY...THIS WILL ALLOW FOR HEIGHTS TO FALL AND ONSHORE P-GRADS TO STRENGTHEN ON WEDNESDAY...SO DIURNAL TEMPERATURES SHOULD BEGIN TO COOL...BUT PROGS APPEAR TO BE A BIT FAST WITH THE TROUGH COMPARED TO THE WV LOOP SO THE COOLING MIGHT NOT BE TOO PRONOUNCED UNTIL THE WEDNESDAY NIGHT/THURSDAY TIME FRAME. MIDNIGHT SHIFT WILL NEED TO TAKE A CLOSER LOOK AT THIS AND MAY NEED TO CONSIDER SHARPLY RAISING TUESDAY NIGHT/WEDNESDAY TEMPERATURES. .HNX...NONE. DS
CAZ089>099-171230- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HANFORD CA 530 AM PDT MON JUN 16 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE CENTRAL CALIFORNIA INTERIOR. .DAY ONE...TODAY .A SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS IN THE SOUTHERN SIERRA NEVADA MAINLY AT HIGHER ELEVATIONS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY A SLIGHT CHANCE FOR AFTERNOON AND EVENING THUNDERSTORMS IN THE SOUTHERN SIERRA NEVADA MAINLY AT THE HIGHER ELEVATIONS FOR TUESDAY THROUGH FRIDAY, ALSO FOR THE TULARE COUNTY MOUNTAINS FOR TUESDAY THROUGH FRIDAY...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 Caliente Fire consumed 1233 acres just west of Caliente in the foothills of Kern County. The cause and cost of the fire were unknown.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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