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 5, 12:00 PM PST, 0 minutes earlier.
INTERIOR CENTRAL CALIFORNIA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HANFORD CA 100 PM PDT FRI SEP 5 2003 DRYING SOUTHWEST FLOW CONTINUES THIS AFTERNOON OVER THE CENTRAL CALIFORNIA INTERIOR AS A VERY WEAK SHORTWAVE TROUGH TRAVERSES SOUTHERN OREGON AND NORTHERN CALIFORNIA. SO FAR VISIBLE SATELLITE IMAGERY SHOWS SOME CUMULUS BUILD UPS MAINLY OVER THE SIERRA FROM FRESNO COUNTY NORTH. TO THE SOUTH JUST ONE OR TWO CUMULUS HAVE POPPED OVER THE TEHACHAPI MOUNTAINS WITH NONE OVER THE FRAZIER PARK AREA. WITH THIS SCENARIO...WILL OPT TO REMOVE ALL THUNDER CHANCES LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING AS EVEN THE FORECAST MODELS KEEP MOISTURE AND INSTABILITY TO THE EAST OF THE AREA. IN THE TEMPERATURE DEPARTMENT...TRENDS ARE STILL RUNNING DOWN A FEW DEGREES FROM YESTERDAY IN THE SJV HOWEVER THE WIND PROFILERS SHOW THE SHALLOW MARINE AIR HAS RAPIDLY MIXED OUT. AS FOR THE MODEL PROJECTIONS... GENERAL AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE ETA AND GFS THROUGH SATURDAY IN BUILDING UP THE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA RIDGE ALTHOUGH THE GFS IS NOT AS AGGRESSIVE. NONE THE LESS...THE FLOW PATTERN IN THE MID AND UPPER LEVELS REMAINS SOUTHWEST THUS DRY AIR ADVECTION SHOULD CONTINUE. ON SUNDAY THE PATTERN IS PROJECTED TO TAKE A FUNDAMENTAL CHANGE AS THE TROUGH NOW MOVING EAST FROM 140W MOVES ONSHORE ALONG THE FAR NORTHWEST COAST. SOME SLIGHT COOLING SHOULD AFFECT THE AREA SUNDAY... HOWEVER THE BEST COOLING SHOULD ARRIVE ON MONDAY AS THE ONSHORE GRADIENT INCREASES AND MARINE INFLUENCES COME INTO PLAY. WILL STICK WITH THE CURRENT COOLER AND DRY FORECAST. FOR TUESDAY THROUGH FRIDAY...MEDIUM RANGE MODELS HAVE SOME TIMING AND STRENGTH DIFFERENCES WITH THE UPPER TROUGH TRACKING EAST FROM THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST AND THE SUBSEQUENT RIDGE BUILDING FROM THE PACIFIC OVER THE WESTERN US. THE UPSHOT WILL BE TEMPERATURES TUESDAY SIMILAR TO MONDAY...THEN A WARMUP THROUGH THE END OF THE WEEK. MOS TEMPERATURE GUIDANCE FOR THE PERIOD CONTINUES TO GENERALLY TREND UPWARD WITH EACH RUN BUT STILL LOOKS A LITTLE TOO COOL. BY THURSDAY AND FRIDAY MANY LOCATIONS ACROSS THE VALLEY SHOULD BE NEAR OR ABOVE 100 DEGREES AGAIN. LACK OF ANY MOISTURE RETURN WILL KEEP THE FORECAST DRY THROUGHOUT THE EXTENDED PERIOD. .HNX...NONE. DUDLEY
CAZ089>099-061230- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HANFORD CA 500 AM PDT FRI SEP 5 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE CENTRAL CALIFORNIA INTERIOR. .DAY ONE...TODAY. THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS TODAY AND TONIGHT IN THE SOUTHERN SIERRA NEVADA...AND IN THE KERN COUNTY MOUNTAINS AND DESERTS. NONE OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO BE SEVERE. DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY 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. SOWKO
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 wildfire. Local standard time, as filed.
Homers Nose 2 Fire in the Sequoia-Kings Canyon Park was lightning ignited on the 5th and allowed to burn throughout the month. As of the 30th, it had consumed 230 acres at a cost of $824K with no fatalities or injuries nor 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: 5372407.