Wildfire, Riverside
- When
- June 26, 1:30 PM PST to 4:00 PM PST
- Where
- Riverside County, Corona
- Reported by
- NEWSPAPER
- Coordinates
- 33.744, -115.994 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Wildfire in California, June 26, 2003
Temperatures above 100 degrees and low relative humidities helped three brush fires to grow rapidly. One closed part of Highway 91 for about an hour.
Where it happened
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- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 1
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.
What happened
The episode as NWS SGX wrote it up.
Temperatures above 100 degrees and low relative humidities helped three brush fires to grow rapidly. One closed part of Highway 91 for about an hour.
What forecasters said that day
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 San Diego, CA wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 26, 1:30 PM PST, 0 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 26, 1:30 PM PST, 0 minutes before
EXTREME SOUTHWESTERN CALIFORNIA AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN DIEGO CALIFORNIA 230 PM PDT THU JUN 26 2003 .SYNOPSIS...UPPER LEVEL HIGH PRESSURE WILL CONTINUE THE ABOVE NORMAL AFTERNOON HIGH TEMPERATURES IN ALL AREAS EXCEPT THE IMMEDIATE COAST INTO THE WEEKEND. NIGHT AND MORNING LOW CLOUDS AND SOME PATCHY DENSE FOG CAN BE EXPECTED COASTAL AREAS AS WELL AS THE SAN DIEGO COUNTY VALLEY AREAS. THE LOW CLOUDS WILL LINGER NEAR THE BEACHES EACH AFTERNOON. .DISCUSSION...A WELL ESTABLISHED UPPER LEVEL HIGH WILL CONTINUE OVER THE AREA WITH WEAK OFFSHORE FLOW TO THE PLATEAU. THIS WILL KEEP THE INLAND AREAS HOT INTO THE FIRST PART OF NEXT WEEK. A GRADUAL WEAKENING OF THE HIGH PRESSURE AREA WILL ALLOW TEMPERATURES TO FALL SLOWLY INTO THE WEEKEND...BUT IT WILL STILL BE QUITE HOT INLAND. BY SUNDAY AND MONDAY A WEAK UPPER LEVEL TROUGH WILL MOVE BY TO THE NORTH AND WEAKEN THE UPPER HIGH AND SURFACE HIGH EVEN MORE. THIS MAY DEEPEN UP THE MARINE LAYER AND MAKE IT MORE PERSISTENT. HOWEVER...IT SHOULD STILL CLEAR BACK TO THE COAST EACH AFTERNOON. THE HIGH BEGINS TO BUILD OVER THE 4 CORNERS AREA AROUND WEDNESDAY BUT NO SIGNIFICANT MOISTENING OF THE AIRMASS ALOFT. THE MARINE LAYER MAY NOT CHANGE MUCH AT ALL...THUS CHANGES WILL BE SUBTLE UP THROUGH THE MIDDLE OF NEXT WEEK. .SAN...NONE. SMALL
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 26, 5:00 AM PST, 8 hours 30 minutes before
CAZ042-043-048-050-055>058-060>062-271300- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN DIEGO CA 600 AM PDT THU JUN 26 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EXTREME SOUTHWESTERN CALIFORNIA. .DAY ONE... TODAY THROUGH TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. MARTIN
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
1 wildfire. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Wildfire
- A fire burning in wildland vegetation, with its acreage and damage where known.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
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- Wildfire in California, June 26 to 27, 2003
- Marine Thunderstorm Winds in Lake Erie, June 26, 2003
- Marine Thunderstorm Winds in Lake Erie, June 26, 2003
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Texas, June 26, 2003
- Flash Flooding in Illinois, June 26, 2003
- Waterspouts in Gulf of Mexico, June 26, 2003
- Damaging Winds in Ohio, June 26, 2003
- Damaging Winds in Ohio, June 26, 2003
- Damaging Winds in Missouri, June 26, 2003
More
Every storm in California in 2003Every state in 2003This day in weather historyWarnings in California, June 2003
Sources
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: 5363048.