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 Aug 14, 8:30 PM PST, 30 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HANFORD CA 930 PM PDT SUN AUG 14 2005 .SHORT TERM...FOR THE CENTRAL CALIFORNIA INTERIOR...UPPER LOW SPINNING OFF THE SOCAL COAST VCNTY PT CONCEPTION. CENTRAL CA COMING UNDER INCREASING DIFLUENT FLOW. WITH PLENTY OF MOISTURE...TSTMS CONT TO FIRE ACROSS MTNS/DESERTS...AND SEE LITTLE CHANGE OVERNITE. UPPER LOW DOESNT MOVE MUCH MON FOR CONTD TSTM ACTIVITY. CANNOT RULE OUT CONVECTION IN THE VALLEY EITHER. HAVE UPDATED ALL ZONES THIS EVE TO REFLECT ALL THE ABOVE. UPPER LOW TO MOVE SLOWLY INLAND MON NITE INTO TUES FOR DECREASING ACTIVITY. ANY RESIDUAL MOISTURE ON WED TO BE CONFINED TO THE SIERRA CREST. .LONG TERM...FOR WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY...ALTHOUGH SOME SLIGHT TIMING DIFFERENCES EXIST...THE MEDIUM RANGE MODELS HAVE THE SAME GENERAL SOLUTION WITH A WEST TO SOUTHWEST FLOW ALOFT MOVING THE UPPER CUTOFF LOW EAST OF THE AREA BY WEDNESDAY NIGHT. WITH RESIDUAL MOISTURE IN PLACE OVER THE CREST OF THE SOUTHERN SIERRA NEVADA... ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE NEAR THE CREST WEDNESDAY EVENING. 12Z MODEL CONSENSUS INDICATING DRY UPPER HIGH PRESSURE BUILDING OFF THE WESTERN CONUS COAST THURSDAY AND FRIDAY THEN MOVING INLAND OVER THE WEEKEND. RH PROGS INDICATING LITTLE IF ANY MOISTURE AFFECTING THE CWFA FROM THURSDAY ON...SO EXPECT A CLEAR AND DRY REGIME TO PREVAIL WITH TEMPS RISING TO ABOVE SEASONAL NORMALS AS HEIGHTS AND THICKNESSES SLOWLY RISE. && .AVIATION...AREAS OF MVFR CONDITIONS WILL BE POSSIBLE NEAR SAN LUIS RESERVOIR LATE TONIGHT AND MONDAY MORNING FROM AROUND 10Z UNTIL 19Z. ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE IN THE CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY FROM 19Z MONDAY THROUGH 03Z TUESDAY. OTHERWISE...VFR CONDITIONS WILL PREVAIL ACROSS ALL AREAS THROUGH AT LEAST 12Z TUESDAY. REFER TO TAFS AT KMCE...KFAT...AND KBFL FOR DETAILS. && .HNX...WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...NONE. && WWW.WEATHER.GOV/HANFORD /USE ALL LOWER CASE/ BINGHAM/DS
1 wildfire. Local standard time, as filed.
The Corral Fire was lightning started on the 14th in the high Sierra Nevada 11 miles southeast of Mammoth Lakes in Madera County. The fire was allowed to burn unmanaged through August.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in California in 2005Every state in 2005This day in weather historyWarnings in California, August 2005
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: 5469640.