Named the Sugarloaf Fire, this fire burned 60 acres on the southern slopes of Sugarloaf Mountain. No damage or injuries were reported.
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The episode as NWS SGX wrote it up.
Named the Sugarloaf Fire, this fire burned 60 acres on the southern slopes of Sugarloaf Mountain. No damage or injuries were reported.
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 San Diego, CA wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 24, 7:45 PM PST, 11 hours 15 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN DIEGO 845 PM PDT THU JUN 24 2004 .SYNOPSIS...WEAK HIGH PRESSURE OVER ARIZONA WILL SHIFT EAST THIS WEEKEND. A LOW PRESSURE TROUGH OVER THE PACIFIC WILL STALL OVER SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA NEXT WEEK RESULTING IN A DEEPER MARINE LAYER AND SLIGHTLY COOLER WEATHER. AN INCREASING WESTERLY SWELL WILL BRING HIGH SURF THIS WEEKEND. && .DISCUSSION...FOR EXTREME SOUTHWESTERN CALIFORNIA INCLUDING ORANGE... SAN DIEGO...WESTERN RIVERSIDE AND SOUTHWESTERN SAN BERNARDINO COUNTIES. CUMULUS CLOUDS FORMED OVER THE SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY MOUNTAINS THIS AFTERNOON...THEN QUICKLY DISSIPATED ONCE THE SOUTHEAST FLOW ALOFT SHIFTED WESTERLY. THIS DRY WESTERLY FLOW ALOFT WILL DOMINATE OUR WEATHER THROUGH NEXT WEEK. THE 00Z MARINE LAYER WAS 1700 FEET DEEP COMPARED TO 2500 FEET WEDNESDAY EVENING. DONT EXPECT MUCH CHANGE FRIDAY...THEN GRADUAL DEEPENING SATURDAY AND SUNDAY AS THE TROUGH APPROACHES. 500 HEIGHTS NEAR 588 DM THIS EVENING FALL TO 582 DM SUNDAY. HTS FALL EVEN FURTHER AS THE UPPER TROUGH SETTLES OVER THE SOUTHWEST EARLY NEXT WEEK. MARINE LAYER WILL DEEPEN SO EXPECT ANOTHER PERIOD OF JUNE GLOOM WEST OF THE MTNS EARLY NEXT WEEK. WAVE MODELS PROJECT AN PRETTY STRONG WESTERLY SWELL OVER THE WEEKEND WITH HIGHEST BREAKERS OVER THE SOUTHERN SAN DIEGO COUNTY BEACHES. && .SGX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...NONE. && MOEDE
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 wildfire. Local standard time, as filed.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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