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 Sep 15, 8:05 AM PST, 3 hours 16 minutes earlier.
INTERIOR CENTRAL CALIFORNIA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HANFORD CA 905 AM PDT MON SEP 15 2003 EPAC TROUGH CONTS DIGGING SE TOWARD THE NORCAL COAST THIS MORNING WITH ONSHORE GRADS INCREASING AND TRAVIS WINDS AT 25-30 KTS. CENTRAL VALLEY TEMP FORECASTS MAY BE A TAD WARM FOR THIS AFTERNOON...HOWEVER MAXES SHOULD RISE TO WITHIN A DEGREE OR TWO OF CURRENT PROJECTIONS. FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE CWA...12Z RAOBS/PROFILER DATA INDICATE SLIGHT COOLING ALOFT WHICH WILL SUPPORT AFTERNOON HIGH TEMPS NEAR CURRENT FORECASTS. BAND OF HIGH LEVEL CLOUDINESS OVER NORCAL SHOULD APPROACH NORTHERN PORTIONS OF THE DISTRICT BY LATE AFTERNOON. HOWEVER WITH MOISTURE LARGELY CONFINED ABOVE H3 AND SHEARING AS IT PROGRESSES SOUTH... WILL MAINTAIN SUNNY WORDING FOR ALL ZONES TODAY. MAGNITUDE OF ONSHORE GRADS MAY ALSO SUPPORT LOCALLY STRONGER WIND GUSTS IN KERN MTNS/DESERTS THIS EVE...BUT WILL MONITOR RATE AT WHICH GRAD INCREASES TODAY AND EVALUATE FOR AFTERNOON PACKAGE. .HNX...NONE. JSN
CAZ089>099-161230- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HANFORD CA 500 AM PDT MON SEP 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...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY 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 Michael Fire had an unknown ignition near Chimney Peak in southeast Tulare County. It consumed 388 acres at a cost of $460K. No fatalities occurred nor were structures lost.
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, September 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: 5372411.