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 Los Angeles, CA wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 5, 2:00 AM PST, 9 hours 57 minutes earlier.
SOUTHWEST CALIFORNIA AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOS ANGELES/OXNARD CA 300 AM PDT SAT JUN 5 2004 .SHORT TERM...MARINE LAYER HAD DEEPENED SOME DURING THE PAST 24 HOURS...AND WAS NOW RUNNING BETWEEN 1400 AND 1700 FEET. DECENT EDDY CRCLN HAS SENT CLOUDS INTO CSTL AREAS OF L.A./VTU COUNTIES... AND INTO MUCH OF THE L.A. COUNTY VLYS. THE NLY GRADS...WHICH WERE CAUSING GUSTY WINDS IN THE MTNS...AND LOCALLY BELOW PASSES AND CANYONS OF SRN SBA COUNTY...WERE SLOWING THE PROGRESSION OF THE LOW CLOUDS INTO THE VTU COUNTY VLYS AND INTO S CST OF SBA COUNTY. BY DAYBREAK...BLV THAT LOW CLOUDS WILL CSTL AREAS FROM AROUND SBA SWD...AND ALL BUT THE MOST INTERIOR VLYS OF L.A./VTU COUNTIES. WITH A CONTD STRONG INVERSION...DECENT ONSHORE GRADS AND EDDY CRCLN...LOW CLOUDS WILL PROBABLY LINGER AT SOME BEACHES SOUTH OF PT CONCEPTION. N OF PT CONCEPTION...CLOUDS WERE AGAIN MORE PATCHY IN NATURE AND SHOULD BURN OFF RATHER QUICKLY THIS MORNING. WITH SOME COOLING AT 850 AND 950 MB...EXPECT TEMPS TO BE DOWN A COUPLE OF DEGREES IN MOST AREAS TODAY... MAYBE A BIT MORE IN THE VLYS AS THE MARINE INFLUENCE RETURNS. AT THIS POINT...UNFORTUNATELY...IT DOES NOT APPEAR THAT THE REALLY MOIST MARINE AIR WILL MAKE IT TO THE GAVIOTA FIRE THIS MORNING...BUT IT WILL COME CLOSE...AND THERE IS A CHANCE THAT RELATIVE HUMIDITIES WILL RISE ENOUGH TO GIVE FIREFIGHTERS A BIT OF A BREAK. THE WORKSTATION ETA IS SHOWING A RATHER IMPRESSIVE EDDY CRCLN TONIGHT...WHICH SHOULD HELP DEEPEN THE MARINE LAYER EVEN MORE...WITH LOW CLOUDS LIKELY TO SPREAD INTO MOST CSTL AND VLY ZONES TONIGHT. CLEARING MAY BE RATHER SLOW ON MONDAY...ESPECIALLY ON THE CSTL PLAIN. INCREASED MARINE INFLUENCE AND STENGTHENING ONSHORE FLOW WILL HELP CAUSE MANY VLY LOCATIONS 5 TO 10 DEGREES LOWER THAN TODAY. FALLING THICKNESSES AND COOLING AT 850 MB WILL HELP CAUSE SEVERAL DEGREES OF COOLING IN THE MTNS. GUSTY WINDS WILL CONT ACROSS THE MTNS THRU MONDAY. THE BROAD TROUGH DEVELOPING ACROSS THE WRN STATES TODAY THROUGH MON WILL SHARPEN MON NIGHT AND TUE. FALLING HGTS AND COOLING ALF WILL CAUSE SIGNIFICANT COOLING IN THE MTNS AND DSRTS ON TUE...WHILE STRONG ONSHORE FLOW...A DEEP MARINE LAYER AND STRONG COOLING AT 950 MB WILL CAUSE SEVERAL DEGREES OF ADDITIONAL COOLING W OF THE MTNS ON TUE. VLY LOCATIONS MAY HAVE A DIFFICULT TIME RISING MUCH ABOVE THE 70 DEGREE MARK ON TUE. .LONG TERM...MODELS SHOW THE TROUGH CLOSING OFF LATE TUE...WITH THE UPPER CENTER DRIFTING SLOWLY ESEWD ACRS NRN CA AND INTO NV TUE NIGHT AND EARLY WED. AT THIS POINT...BLV THE BEST MSTR AND INSTABILITY WILL REMAIN TO THE N OF THE FCST AREA...SO THE DRY FCST LOOKS ALL RIGHT. HOWEVER...IF THE TRACK OF THE UPPER CENTER END UP A BIT FARTHER S AND W...THERE WOULD BE A CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND TSTMS IN THE MTNS AND DSRTS...MAINLY LATE TUE INTO WED. OTHERWISE...THERE SHOULD BE ENOUGH COOLING ALF TO WIPE OUT THE MARINE INVERSION TUE NIGHT/WED...AND WILL JUST GO MOSTLY CLEAR TO PTLY CLOUDY ELSEWHERE. IT WILL STILL BE COOL ON WED...THEN SOME WARMING SHOULD BEGIN THU THRU SAT AS THE UPPER SYSTEM MOVES E AND HGTS REBOUND. && .LOX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... GALE WARNING/SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY (SEE LAXCWFLOX). MARINE WEATHER STATEMENT (SEE LAXMWSLOX) && BRUNO
1 wildfire. Local standard time, as filed.
A wildfire of unknown origin burned 7,440 acres of land along southern Santa Barbara County. One residence was destroyed by the fire. The estimated cost of fighting the fire was 6.4 million dollars.
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: 5405788.