1 wildfire, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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 Aug 14, 7:50 AM PST, 4 hours 49 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HANFORD CA 850 AM PDT SAT AUG 14 2004 .UPDATE...NEW META CAPES WOULD INDICATE LESS CONVECTION IN THE SRN SIERRA THIS AFTN FROM YESTERDAY. HOWEVER THE AIRMASS IS FAIRLY UNSTABLE SO WILL NOT MESS WITH CURRENT POPS. OTHERWISE FCST LOOKS GOOD AND NO MORNING UPDATE NEEDED. .PREVIOUS DISCUSSION ISSUED 330 AM... SHORT TERM...FOR THE CENTRAL CALIFORNIA INTERIOR...PRIMARY SHORT TERM CONCERN INVOLVES CONVECTIVE POTENTIAL OVER THE MTNS AND DESERTS. LITTLE CHANGE IN POSITION OF RIDGE AXIS OVER THE INTERMOUNTAIN STATES WILL KEEP THE CWA ON THE WESTERN PERIPHERY OF MONSOONAL MOISTURE. ALTHOUGH A DRIER SW FLOW WILL DEVELOP SUN/MON AS SHORTWAVES ARE EJECTED FROM UPPER TROUGH ALONG 145W...FLOW WILL REMAIN VERY WEAK AND PROGS ARE OFTEN TOO AGGRESSIVE ADVECTING DRIER AIR INTO THE HIGH SOUTHERN SIERRA. WILL THEREFORE MAINTAIN TSTM POPS FOR MTNS/DESERTS TODAY...AND KEEP POPS CONFINED TO THE HIGH SIERRA SUN/MON. FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE DISTRICT...UPPER PATTERN WILL REMAIN RELATIVELY STAGNANT THRU MON WITH RIDGE UNDERGOING ONLY SLIGHT WEAKENING. AT 10Z STRENGTH OF ONSHORE GRADIENTS WAS SIMILAR TO FRIDAY MORNING...HOWEVER THE MARINE LAYER HAS DEEPENED IN RESPONSE TO AN ELONGATED SHORTWAVE MOVING EAST FROM 125W. ALTHOUGH THE MARINE LAYER MAY CONTINUE TO DEEPEN AS ADDITIONAL WAVES MOVE ONSHORE FROM THE EPAC...P-GRADS SHOULD REMAIN TOO WEAK TO SUPPORT A SIGNIFICANT INFLUX OF COOLER MARINE AIR INTO ALL BUT NORTHERN PORTIONS OF THE CENTRAL SJ VALLEY. .LONG TERM...FOR MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY...MEDIUM RANGE MODELS IN FAIR AGREEMENT THROUGH THE PERIOD. A DEEP UPPER LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM IN THE GULF OF ALASKA WILL REMAIN QUASI-STATIONARY THROUGH TUESDAY BEFORE SHIFTING NORTHWARD WEDNESDAY. UPPER LEVEL SHORT WAVES WILL MOVE THROUGH THE UPPER LOW AND OVER THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST MONDAY AND TUESDAY. HOWEVER THE UPPER TROF WILL REMAIN OFFSHORE THROUGH TUESDAY RESULTING IN A WEAK SOUTHWEST FLOW ALOFT OVER CENTRAL CALIFORNIA. MOISTURE OVER THE SIERRA NEVADA WILL LIKELY LINGER WITH A GENERALLY LIGHT WIND PATTERN ALOFT AND WEAK INSTABILITY. HENCE BELIEVE THE POTENTIAL FOR AFTERNOON THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT OVER THE HIGHER ELEVATIONS OF THE SIERRA NEVADA WILL CONTINUE EACH DAY THROUGH THE EXTENDED PERIOD. HIGH PRESSURE ALOFT BUILDING OVER THE WESTERN STATES WILL BRING A WARMING TREND DURING MID WEEK. WINDS SHOULD REMAIN RELATIVELY LIGHT AS PRESSURE GRADIENTS WILL REMAIN WEAK THROUGH THE PERIOD. && .HNX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...NONE. && BINGHAM/JSN/MV
1 wildfire. Local standard time, as filed.
The Guadalupe Fire burned 130 acres 2 mile NE of Catheys Valley in Mariposa County. The cause of ignition was unknown. The cost to fight the fire was $138K, but no structures were lost nor did injuries occur.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in California in 2004Every state in 2004This day in weather historyWarnings in California, August 2004
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: 5412093.