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 Sep 12, 1:52 PM PST, 59 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY - HANFORD CA 252 PM PDT SUN SEP 12 2004 .SHORT TERM...FOR THE CENTRAL CALIFORNIA INTERIOR...SHORTWAVE TROUGH BRUSHING NORTHERN CALIFORNIA IS EXERTING SOME INFLUENCE ON CENTRAL CALIFORNIAS WEATHER THIS AFTERNOON. ONSHORE FLOW HAS INCREASED AS SURFACE PRESSURE GRADIENTS HAVE TIGHTENED UP SIGNIFICANTLY...SFO-SAC CURRENTLY AT 4.3 MB AND SFO-LAS AT 9.1 MB. 24 HR TEMPERATURE TRENDS ACROSS THE DISTRICT ARE NOW GENERALLY AVERAGING 3 TO 6 DEGREES LOWER. SKIES ARE MAINLY SUNNY WITH JUST SOME WISPS OF CIRRUS PASSING OVERHEAD. THE REGION WILL REMAIN UNDER DRY NORTHWEST FLOW FOR THE NEXT FEW DAYS BETWEEN THE UPPER TROUGH OVER THE WESTERN US AND THE HIGH IN THE EAST PACIFIC. MODELS SHOW LITTLE CHANGE IN HEIGHTS AND THICKNESSES TOMORROW BUT A SLIGHT DECREASE IN 850 MB TEMPS. TEMPERATURES ARE EXPECTED TO COOL ANOTHER FEW DEGREES MONDAY THEN HOLD STEADY OR INCREASE A DEGREE OR SO ON TUESDAY...BEFORE ANOTHER IMPULSE DROPPING SOUTHEAST IN THE FLOW LOWERS TEMPERATURES A FEW DEGREES AGAIN WEDNESDAY. SURFACE GRADIENTS SHOULD FURTHER TIGHTEN TONIGHT AND KEEP CONDITIONS IN THE KERN DESERTS AND MOUNTAINS LOCALLY BREEZY THROUGH MONDAY. MOSTLY SUNNY SKIES SHOULD PREVAIL IN THE DRY NORTHWEST FLOW. .LONG TERM...FOR WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY...GOOD AGREEMENT WITH THE EXTENDED PROGS IN KEEPING A QUASI-ZONAL UPPER FLOW PATTERN OVER THE WESTERN CONUS EARLY IN THE PERIOD AND A DRY WESTERLY FLOW OVER CENTRAL CA AS MOISTURE AND DYNAMICS REMAIN WELL TO THE NORTH OF OUR AREA. DON/T EXPECT MUCH CHANGE IN TEMPERATURES THURSDAY AND FRIDAY AS THERE IS LITTLE FLUCTUATION IN THE UPPER HEIGHT AND THICKNESS PATTERNS. DO EXPECT TO SEE SOME CHANGES BY THE WEEKEND HOWEVER...AS AN UPPER LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM EJECTS OUT OF THE GULF OF AK AND CARVES OUT A LONGWAVE TROUGH OVER THE WESTERN CONUS. THIS WILL RESULT IN SIGNIFICANT COOLING FOR OUR CWFA IF THIS VERIFIES WITH TEMPERATURES DROPPING WELL BELOW NORMAL FOR MID SEPTEMBER. HOWEVER...WOULD LIKE TO SEE THE MODELS CONTINUE TO SHOW THIS FOR A FEW MORE RUNS BEFORE DROPPING TEMPERATURES TO MORE THAN 5 DEG F BELOW NORMAL AND SIGNIFICANTLY INCREASING CLOUDY COVER. DGEX RH PROGS INDICATING SIGNIFICANT MOISTURE REMAINING NORTH OF THE CWFA...BUT INCREASES IN ONSHORE P-GRADS AND THICKNESS PACKING PROGGED FOR SUNDAY WOULD BRING BREEZY TO WINDY CONDITIONS TO THE USUAL WIND PRONE LOCATIONS. && .HNX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...NONE. && JEB/DS
1 wildfire. Local standard time, as filed.
The Old Highway Fire was a man-caused fire that burned 1347 acres in the S.Sierra Nevada Foothills at Mariposa. There were no fatalities, injuries, or structures lost. The cost to suppress the fire was $3M.
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, September 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: 5426009.