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 30, 8:05 PM PST, 3 hours 55 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY - HANFORD CA 905 PM PDT WED JUN 30 2004 .SHORT TERM...FOR THE CENTRAL CALIFORNIA INTERIOR...UPPER LEVEL LOW OFF THE SOUTHERN CA COAST SHOWS UP PRETTY WELL ON SATELLITE IMAGERY THIS EVENING...CENTERED NR 31N 122W. THIS LOW HAS BEEN TRANSPORTING WEAK VORT MAXES OUR WAY...ALONG WITH SOME MID AND HIGH LEVEL CLOUDS DURING THE PAST 24 HRS. AND WITH ENOUGH MOISTURE AND LIFT...ISOLD TSTMS AGAIN ERUPTED OVER THE HIGH SIERRA FROM TULARE COUNTY NORTHWARD THIS AFTN. BY SUNSET...ALL PRECIPITATION HAD DIMINISHED. THE MODELS SHOW LITTLE CHANGE IN THE OVERALL PATTERN THROUGH FRIDAY. SO ONE WOULD EXPECT A REPEAT PERFORMANCE OF ISOLD AFTN/ EARLY EVE CONVECTION OVER THE HIGHER ELEVATIONS OF THE SIERNEV THE NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS...MAINLY NORTH OF SEQUOIA NATIONAL PARK. THE MESO-ETA FORECASTS A THETA-E RIDGE DIRECTLY OVER THE SIERNEV CREST THU AFTN AND AGAIN FRI AFTN WITH CAPES PEAKING BETWEEN 600 AND 1000 JOULES/KG. INTERESTING TO NOTE...HOWEVER...THAT THIS PARTICULAR MODEL NOW EXTENDS FAIRLY HIGH CAPES SOUTHWARD INTO THE KERN CO MTNS THE NEXT TWO AFTNS...ALONG WITH AN INCREASE IN MID LEVEL MOISTURE IN THESE AREAS...ESPECIALLY THURSDAY. MIDNIGHT FORECASTERS MAY NEED TO CONSIDER ADDING SLIGHT CHC POPS TO THE KERN CO MTNS IF MODEL TRENDS CONTINUE TO SHOW DEEPER MOISTURE IN PLACE IN THESE AREAS BY THURSDAY AFTN WITH HIGHER OMEGA AND A PREVAILING SE SE WIND BETWEEN 850MB AND 700MB. ADDITIONALLY...THE ETA FORECASTS LIFTED INDICES RANGING FROM -1 OVER THE TEHACHAPI MTNS TO -3 BETWEEN KINGS CANYON AND YOSEMITE N.P. BY 00Z FRI. IN THE LOWER ELEVATIONS...ONSHORE GRADIENTS ARE A BIT STRONGER THIS EVENING COMPARED TO 24 HRS AGO...UP TO ABOUT 8.5 MB BETWEEN SFO AND LAS. INDEED...TEMPS AND DEWPOINTS ARE ALSO SLIGHTLY LOWER ACROSS THE CENTRAL SJ VLY WHERE A GENTLE NW BREEZE PREVAILS THIS EVENING. WITH ONSHORE FLOW LIKELY TO PERSIST IN THE LOWER LEVELS THRU FRI...MAX TEMPS IN THE SJ VLY WILL PROBABLY STAY BELOW 90 DEGREES THURSDAY AND FRIDAY. CURRENT ZONE PKG KEEPS MAX TEMPS WELL BELOW MOS GUIDANCE THE NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS AND THIS SEEMS REASONABLE. WILL AMMEND FORECAST PKG TO REMOVE EVE TSTMS FROM ZONES 96 AND 97. OTHERWISE...CURRENT FORECAST PACKAGE LOOKS FINE. .LONG TERM...FROM PREVIOUS DISCUSSION...FOR INDEPENDENCE DAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY...THE BAGGY TROUGH THAT HAS BEEN RESIDING OVER THE WESTERN CONUS FOR THE LAST WEEK OR SO IS PROJECTED TO SLOWLY FILL AND MOVE EAST OVER THE WEEKEND. WITH LITTLE CHANGE IN AIRMASS CHARACTERISTICS THROUGH THEN...WILL OPT TO KEEP AFTERNOON AND EVENING SLIGHT CHANCE POPS OVER THE SIERRA NEVADA THROUGH SUNDAY. THE FLOW ALOFT REVERTS MORE WESTERLY BY MONDAY...SO A DRY FORECAST FOR ALL ZONES LOOKS REASONABLE. MOST MEDIUM RANGE SOLUTIONS BUILD A RIDGE INTO THE CWFA NEXT WEEK...WHILE THE GFS DEEPENS A TROUGH OVER THE NORTHERN ROCKIES AND EXTENDS ITS AXIS INTO OUR DISTRICT. THINK THE FORMER IS PROBABLY THE MOST BELIEVABLE AT THIS POINT AND WILL ACCORDINGLY TREND TEMPERATURES HIGHER THROUGH THE PERIOD. && .HNX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...NONE. && DURFEE/BURGER
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 wildfire. Local standard time, as filed.
See June 2004 Storm Data for Statistics on the Meadow Fire.
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, July 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: 5405924.