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 Jun 16, 1:20 PM PST, 21 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HANFORD CA 220 PM PDT WED JUN 16 2004 .SHORT TERM...FOR THE CENTRAL CALIFORNIA INTERIOR...HANFORD AND EDWARDS AFB RADARS SHOW CONVECTION CONTINUING OVER MAINLY TULARE AND KERN COUNTY MOUNTAINS. ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS ARE OVER AND JUST EAST OF THE CREST FROM TUOLUMNE MEADOWS TO DEVILS POSTPILE. WITH THE UPPER LEVEL FLOW FROM THE WEST OR NORTHWEST, I EXPECT ALL OF THE ACTIVITY TO REMAIN OVER THE HIGHER TERRAIN, HOWEVER JUST HOW FAR SOUTHWEST THE CONVECTION GETS OVER THE KERN MOUNTAINS IS A LITTLE PROBLEMATIC AT THIS TIME. WILL OPT TO KEEP ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS IN THE KERN MOUNTAINS FOR THIS EVENING, BUT NOT INCLUDE IN THE KERN COUNTY DESERT AS STORMS SHOULD HAVE A HARD TIME HOLDING TOGETHER OVER THE VALLEY FLOORS. AS HAS BEEN THE CASE FOR PAST FEW EVENINGS, SKIES SHOULD CLEAR LATER THIS EVENING AS THE CONVECTION ENDS. ON THURSDAY AND FRIDAY, GOOD MODEL AGREEMENT EXISTS AND SHORT RANGE SOLUTIONS KEEP A WEAK TROUGH OVER THE AREA WITH LITTLE CHANGE IN HEIGHTS AND TEMPERATURE PROFILES. AS FOR THE THREAT OF SIERRA CONVECTION, NO HUGE CHANGE IN AIRMASS AND UPPER LEVEL FLOW, HOWEVER ONE WOULD EXPECT SOME DRIER AIR ADVECTION IN THE WESTERLY FLOW TO EVENTUALLY SHUT OFF THE CONVECTIVE THREAT. WILL OPT TO KEEP THE CHANCES GOING THURSDAY AND AGAIN FRIDAY, BUT LEAVE THINGS DRY ON SATURDAY AFTERNOON. SPEAKING OF SATURDAY, STILL LITTLE CHANGE IN THE LATEST RUN OF THE GFS MODEL AS IT KEEPS THE PERSISTENT VERY WEAK TROUGH OVER THE AREA. .LONG TERM...FOR SUNDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY...00Z EXTENDED PROGS INDICATED THE WEAK TROUGH OF LOW PRESSURE OVER THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST DROPPING INTO THE GREAT BASIN SUNDAY WITH WEAK HIGH PRESSURE BUILDING OVER CALIFORNIA MONDAY. HOWEVER THE 12Z GFS HOLDS THE LOW ACROSS THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST WITH THE REMNANTS OF THE WEAK TROUGHINESS OVER CENTRAL CALIFORNIA SHIFTING EASTWARD AND A RIDGE OFF THE COAST. THE LOW THEN DROPS INTO NORTHERN NEVADA MONDAY/TUESDAY WITH A RATHER BENIGN PATTERN OVER CENTRAL CALIFORNIA. THIS WILL KEEP DRY WEATHER OVER THE CWFA SUNDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY WITH TEMPERATURES NEAR NORMAL. && .HNX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...NONE. && DUDLEY/BEAN
1 wildfire. Local standard time, as filed.
The Source Fire in the Sierra National Forest 7 miles northeast of North Fork burned 385 acres and it cost $968K to battle. There were no injuries or structures lost.
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, June 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: 5406284.