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 8, 7:55 AM PST, 2 hours earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY - HANFORD CA 855 AM PDT WED SEP 8 2004 .UPDATE...FOR THE CENTRAL CALIFORNIA INTERIOR...THIS MORNING/S LOW- LEVEL SOUNDING FOR FRESNO SHOWS THAT THE AIRMASS IS 1-2 DEGREES WARMER THROUGH THE LOWEST 5000 FEET THAN TUESDAY MORNING. THE SOUNDING FOR BAKERSFIELD IS SIMILAR THROUGH THE LOWEST 3000 FEET... THEN WARMS MORE THROUGH THE REMAINDER OF THE SOUNDING...UP TO 7 DEGREES WARMER AT 5000 FEET. THIS STRONGER WARMING ALOFT REFLECTS A DOWNSLOPE EVENT OVER THE KERN COUNTY MOUNTAINS...WITH ADIABATIC WARMING. AT 12Z...BAKERSFIELD WAS 7 DEGREES WARMER THAN 24 HOURS EARLIER...BUT THE DOWNSLOPE EVEN ENDED AROUND 13Z AND BY 15Z... BAKERSFIELD WAS ONLY A DEGREE WARMER THAN 15Z TUESDAY. SATELLITE LOOPS SHOW CLEAR SKIES ACROSS CALIFORNIA AS THE UPPER- LEVEL RIDGE IS FIRMLY IN PLACE OVER THE REGION. THE MODELS ARE IN GENERAL AGREEMENT WITH THE RIDGE CONTINUING OVER THE SOUTHWEST UNITED STATES THROUGH THE SHORT-TERM PERIOD /TODAY THROUGH FRIDAY/... WITH ONLY THE UKMET FORECASTING ANY DETECTABLE WEAKENING THURSDAY AS AN UPPER-LEVEL SHORT-WAVE MOVES THROUGH WESTERN CANADA AND THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST. THE CURRENT FORECAST HAS THE CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY WARMING A DEGREE TODAY OVER TUESDAY...IN LINE WITH THIS MORNING/S SOUNDINGS. DO NOT PLAN ANY UPDATES THIS MORNING. .FROM PREVIOUS DISCUSSION... .SHORT TERM...FOR THE CENTRAL CALIFORNIA INTERIOR...UPPER RIDGE OVER THE SW STATES WILL REMAIN THE DOMINANT FEATURE THRU FRI SUPPORTING H5 HEIGHTS AOA 588 DM...AND H85 TEMPS AROUND 26C. SURFACE TEMPS WILL THEREFORE REMAIN SEVERAL DEG ABOVE NORMAL ACROSS THE CWA THRU FRIDAY...HOWEVER A WEAKER OFFSHORE FLOW AND MINOR DECREASES IN THICKNESSES WILL ALLOW TEMPS TO FALL SLIGHTLY BY FRI. RIDGE WILL ALSO PRODUCE A SLIGHTLY STRONGER SE FLOW ALOFT...AND THE 06Z ETA HAS TRENDING MORE AGGRESSIVE REGARDING POTENTIAL ADVECTION OF SUBTROP MOISTURE INTO CENTRAL CA THURS-FRI. IR PICS INDICATE SOME MID-LEVEL MOISTURE ALREADY IN PLACE OVER SOCAL ...AND WILL INCREASE CLOUD COVER IN GRIDS ACCORDINGLY. HOWEVER WILL REFRAIN FROM INTRODUCING POPS AT THIS TIME GIVEN INCONSISTENCIES IN EXTENT...DURATION...AND DEPTH OF MOISTURE...ALONG WITH MINIMAL CAPE INDICATED ON PROGS. .LONG TERM...FOR SATURDAY THROUGH TUESDAY...WHILE EXTENDED RANGE MODELS CONTINUE TO SHOW A DEVELOPING TROF PATTERN DURING THE PERIOD...SOME DISCREPANCY AMONG THE MODELS HAS FORMED. GFS HAS BECOME MORE PROGRESSIVE THAN THE OTHER MODELS AND DEVELOPS A DEEPER TROF. WILL CONSIDER THE GFS MORE OF AN OUTLIER AND FOLLOW THE BETTER AGREEMENT OF THE OTHER MODELS. THEREFORE...WILL CONTINUE THE COOLING TREND WITH THE AMOUNT OF COOLING SLIGHTLY LESS THAN THE CURRENT GFS GUIDANCE INDICATES. THEREFORE...WILL MAKE NO CHANGES TO TEMP/S THIS MORNING. WHILE SOME TIMING ISSUES DEVELOPED AT THE BEGINNING OF THE LONG TERM...MODELS BECOME MORE IN-PHASE BY SUNDAY AS ALL MODELS SHOWED THE TROF AXIS OVER THE WEST COAST. THEREFORE...WILL STILL EXPECT BETTER COOLING ON SUNDAY AND INTO MONDAY BEFORE SOME TEMPERATURE RECOVERY DEVELOPS ON TUESDAY. THIS TREND WELL ILLUSTRATED AT THE 850MB LEVEL AS 1-2 DEG-C OF WARMING ON TUESDAY AFTERNOON. MODELS SHOW FRONTAL PASSAGE AROUND SUNDAY AFTERNOON WHICH WILL HELP SUPPORT INCREASED CLOUD COVER EARLY IN THE NEXT WEEK. MOISTURE CURRENTLY OVER THE SUBTROPICS IS EXPECT TO SURGE NORTH AND INFLUENCE THE REGION IN THE SHORT TERM. THIS MOISTURE IS EXPECTED TO LINGER INTO THE LONG TERM FOR ADDITIONAL PARTLY TO MOSTLY CLEAR CONDITIONS. && .HNX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...NONE. && SANGER/JSN/MOLINA
1 wildfire. Local standard time, as filed.
The Trimmer Fire burned 125 acres 25 miles northeast of Fresno. The fire was human in origin. No fatalities, injuries, or structures-lost occurred. The cost to suppress was unknown.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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