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 29, 12:30 PM PST, 41 minutes earlier.
INTERIOR CENTRAL CALIFORNIA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HANFORD CA 130 PM PDT SUN JUN 29 2003 TRICKY FORECAST FOR TEMPERATURES AS A SEEMINGLY SIMPLE SYNOPTIC COOLDOWN WILL UNDOUBTEDLY BE COMPLICATED BY COASTAL/MARINE INFLUENCES. SO FAR TODAY READINGS HAVE BEEN COOLER AT ALL SITES AND THE MARINE LAYER ALONG THE MONTEREY COAST HAS INCREASED TO AROUND 1400 FEET. AT THIS LEVEL...NO REAL BIG SURGE OF COOLER AIR IS LIKELY...HOWEVER IF IT INCREASES TO ABOVE 2000 FEET THE EFFECTS ON SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY TEMPERATURES WILL BE MUCH MORE NOTICEABLE. WILL HAVE TO MONITOR. IN THE THE OVERALL PATTERN...MODELS ARE IN GOOD AGREEMENT OVER THE NEXT 48-72 HOURS BRINGING A TROUGH OF LOW PRESSURE INTO THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST AND KEEPING THE CENTER OF THE DESERT SOUTHWEST HIGH OVER ARIZONA/NEW MEXICO. THIS SCENARIO WILL KEEP A DRY SOUTHWEST FLOW ALOFT OVER THE FORECAST AREA AND ALLOW FOR INFLUX OF MARINE AIR INTO THE SJV. HAVE PRETTY MUCH KEPT THE INHERITED FORECAST TEMPERATURE TRENDS AND NOT DEVIATED MUCH. IT APPEARS THE COOLEST TEMPERATURES WILL OCCUR ON TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY AS READINGS WILL BE AROUND NORMAL. FOR THE TIME FRAME THURSDAY THROUGH SUNDAY...MEDIUM RANGE MODELS IN GOOD AGREEMENT IN KEEPING AN ELONGATED TROUGH ORIENTED SW TO NE ACROSS THE EPAC. DEPENDING ON MODEL...MOST NOTABLY THE EURO...PART OF THIS LAGGING TROUGH IS SQUEEZED OFF INTO A WEAK UPPER LOW CENTER NORTHEAST OF THE HAWAIIAN ISLANDS...ESTABLISHING A REX BLOCK PATTERN. IN ANY EVENT...EXTENDED PERIOD SHOULD BE ONE DOMINATED BY LITTLE DAILY VARIATION WITH TEMPERATURES REMAINING AT...OR MAYBE A DEGREE OR TWO BELOW...SEASONAL NORMALS. BY SUNDAY...THE GFS IS HINTING AT DEVELOPING A TROUGH ACROSS THE WEST COAST BUT WITH RESIDENT BLOCKING PATTERN AND A GOOD SPREAD AMONG ENSEMBLE MEMBERS...WILL NOT PLACE TOO MUCH STOCK IN THIS IDEA ATTM AND KEEP THINGS IN THE DOLDRUMS. .HNX...NONE. DUDLEY/BURGER
CAZ089>099-301230- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HANFORD CA 530 AM PDT SUN JUN 29 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 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 Tejon Fire burned 1155 acres in the Tehachapi Mountains of Kern County at a cost of $1.59M. One travel trailer was destroyed but no fatalities occurred.
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, June 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: 5359485.