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 Eureka, CA wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 30, 1:00 PM PST, 1 hour earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EUREKA CA 200 PM PDT WED JUN 30 2004 .DISCUSSION...CONVECTION IS ONCE AGAIN BEGINNING TO INITIATE ACROSS NW CALIFORNIA THIS AFTERNOON. CONVECTIVE INDICES ARE PRETTY SIMILAR TO YESTERDAY. ONLY DIFFERENCE IS STEERING WINDS...WHICH ARE NOW MORE SW THAN SE. UPPER LEVEL TROUGH ACROSS THE WEST COAST IS BEGINING TO WEAKEN...SO GFS IS PUSHING H5 TEMPS UP A COUPLE OF DEGREES EACH DAY...AND BRINGING LI VALUES ABOVE ZERO AS EARLY AS THU AFTERNOON AS HEIGHTS RISE. ETA CONTINUES TO SHOW STRONGER CONVECTIVE INDICES...BUT HAS SIMILAR TREND. 300MB FLOW WILL BECOME NORTHERLY AS UPPER LEVELS WARM AND NW FLOW AT 850MB BRINGS A SLIGHT COOLING INTO THE WESTERN PART OF THE AREA. XPECT CONVECTION THURSDAY TO BE CONFINED TO EXTREME EASTERN PART OF AREA. BY FRIDAY A MORE TYPICAL PATTERN SHOULD PREVAIL...AS WEAK DISTURBANCE IN WESTERLY FLOW ALOFT USHERS IN A WEAK MARINE PUSH. MEDIUM RANGE GUIDANCE NOT IN PERFECT AGREEMENT. LATEST GFS IS FAVORED BY FORECASTER AT HPC. THIS WOULD BRING A SHARP TROUGH INTO THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST BY TUE. CONFIDENCE IN THIS FEATURE IS LOW...AS ECMWF AND CANADIAN MAINTAIN UPPER LEVEL RIDGE. SO HAVE INDICATED ONLY VERY SLIGHT COOLING ACROSS INLAND NW CALIFORNIA WITH THIS FEATURE. && .SYNOPSIS...AN UPPER LEVEL TROUGH WILL MAINTAIN THE THREAT OF THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE UPPER TRINITY RIVER AREA THROUGH THIS EVENING. THE TROUGH WILL SLOWLY WEAKEN OVER TIME...REDUCING THE THREAT OF THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH THE REST OF THE WEEK. PERSISTENT HIGH PRESSURE OFFSHORE AND WESTERLY FLOW ALOFT WILL HELP MAINTAIN LOW CLOUDS AND PATCHY MORNING FOG AT THE COAST THROUGH THE WEEK. && .EKA WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...NONE. && ST
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EUREKA CA 630 AM PDT WED JUN 30 2004 CAZ001-002-003-076-011330- REDWOOD COAST- MENDOCINO COAST- NORTH COAST INTERIOR- MENDOCINO INTERIOR- 630 AM PDT WED JUN 30 2004 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHWEST CALIFORNIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. CAZ004-011330- UPPER TRINITY RIVER- 630 AM PDT WED JUN 30 2004 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHWEST CALIFORNIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP OVER THE UPPER TRINITY RIVER REGION THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING. THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE LIKELY TO BE SLOW MOVING AND WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LOCALLY MODERATE RAINFALL AMOUNTS UP TO ONE-HALF INCH...PARTICULARLY OVER THE TRINITY ALPS AND YOLLY BOLLY MOUNTAINS. ADDITIONALLY...SMALL HAIL IS POSSIBLE AS WELL AS LOCAL WIND GUSTS UP TO 30 MPH. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY FOR THURSDAY AND FRIDAY...ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ARE LIKELY TO DEVELOP OVER THE UPPER TRINITY RIVER REGION EACH AFTERNOON THROUGH EARLY EVENING. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LOCALLY MODERATE RAIN...SMALL HAIL...AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 30 MPH. OTHERWISE...NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED SATURDAY THROUGH TUESDAY. .INSTRUCTIONS TO SPOTTERS... WEATHER SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT ANY SIGNIFICANT WEATHER CONDITIONS ACCORDING TO STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURES. KENNEDY
1 wildfire. Local standard time, as filed.
Lightning started 32 fires in the Shasta-Trinity National Forest. The largest was near Big Bar which burned about 200 acres by the end of June.
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: 5408612.