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 21, 1:30 PM PST, 2 hours 20 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY - HANFORD CA 230 PM PDT SUN AUG 21 2005 .SHORT TERM...FOR THE CENTRAL CALIFORNIA INTERIOR...THE MARINE LAYER IS HOLDING AROUND 1700 FEET TODAY...AND CENTRAL/SOUTHERN SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY TEMPERATURES ARE UP 2-4 DEGREES OVER 24 HOURS EARLIER AS THE MARINE AIR MIXES OUT. THE WARMEST VALLEY LOCATIONS COULD TOP OUT AROUND 100 THIS AFTERNOON. THE WEATHER WILL BE DOMINATED BY THE UPPER-LEVEL TROUGH IN THE EAST PACIFIC. A SERIES OF DISTURBANCES IS MOVING AROUND THE TROUGH. THE 00Z/06Z MODEL RUNS SUGGESTED THAT THESE DISTURBANCES MIGHT DESTABILIZE THE AIRMASS OVER THE SOUTHERN SIERRA NEVADA MONDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING...BUT THE 12Z RUNS ARE DRIER AND MORE STABLE. THE WS-ETA NOW HAS LIFTED INDEXES OF -1 OVER THE CREST AT 00Z TUESDAY...COMPARED TO -2 FORECASTED BY THE 06Z. CAPES ALSO ARE DOWN CONSIDERABLY. WHILE I DO NOT WANT TO PULL POPS COMPLETELY AS LONG AS THERE IS SOME INSTABILITY...ESPECIALLY IF TONIGHT/S RUNS COME IN MORE UNSTABLE AGAIN...PER COLLABORATION WITH WFO/S SACRAMENTO...LAS VEGAS AND RENO...WILL LOWER POPS TO 10 PERCENT ALONG THE CREST. THE OTHER FORECAST CONCERN TODAY IS TEMPERATURES AS THE TROUGH APPROACHES. THE 12Z MODELS FORECAST THE UPPER-LEVEL TROUGH TO BE OVER CENTRAL CALIFORNIA MONDAY AFTERNOON...A FASTER TIMING THAN PREVIOUS RUNS...WITH A STRONG SHORT-WAVE DROPPING INTO THE TROUGH MONDAY NIGHT/TUESDAY MORNING TO KEEP THE TROUGH IN PLACE OVER THE WESTERN U.S. AND CANADA. EXPECT THE MARINE LAYER TO REBOUND BY MONDAY AFTERNOON. TIMING OF THIS REDEVELOPMENT WILL DETERMINE HOW QUICKLY THE NEXT SURGE OF MARINE AIR PUSHES INTO THE SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY. MODEL NUMERIC GUIDANCE IS OF LITTLE HELP AS THE MODEL RESOLUTION IS TOO COARSE TO ADEQUATELY HANDLE MARINE AIR INTRUSIONS. THE 12Z MODELS FORECAST SIGNIFICANT HEIGHT FALLS OVER CENTRAL CALIFORNIA MONDAY...WITH THE GFS/UKMET/ECMWF DROPPING THE 500-MB 5880-METER HEIGHT LINE FROM NEAR THE SACRAMENTO DELTA AT 00Z MONDAY TO DOWN TO FAR SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA BY 00Z TUESDAY. AT THE SURFACE... THE THERMAL TROUGH IS FORECAST TO PUSH NORTHWARDS INTO CALIFORNIA... BALANCING THE HEIGHT FALLS SO THERE IS LITTLE 1000-500-MB THICKNESS CHANGE THROUGH 24 HOURS. THE GFS HAS 0-1 C WARMING AT 850 MB MONDAY AND THE NAM INCREASES 850-MB TEMPERATURES BY 2 C...ALTHOUGH THIS MAY BE A BIT OVERDONE. AT THIS TIME...WILL GO WITH PERSISTENCE TEMPERATURES FOR MOST AREAS MONDAY...BUT BEGIN THE COOLING TREND IN THE NORTHERN SECTION OF THE HANFORD WARNING/FORECAST AREA AS MARINE AIR BEGINS TO FILTER IN. HAVE LOWERED TUESDAY/S TEMPERATURES ABOUT 3 DEGREES FROM MONDAY... DUE TO THE COMBINATION OF SYNOPTIC COOLING ALOFT AND THE MARINE AIR FILLING THE LOWER LEVELS OF THE SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY...INCLUDING PARTS OF THE FOOTHILLS. A LITTLE COOLER WEDNESDAY AS THE TROUGH LINGERS OVER CALIFORNIA...BEFORE BEGINNING TO LIFT EAST LATE IN THE DAY. .LONG TERM...FOR WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY...ALL MEDIUM RANGE MODELS SEEM TO HAVE A GOOD HANDLE ON THE STATE OF THE ATMOSPHERE BY THURSDAY MORNING. MODELS ARE IN GOOD AGREEMENT WITH PLACING HILLARY NEAR 20N/120W WHILE LIFTING A TROF INTO THE UPPER MID-WEST AS A RIDGE SHIFTS INTO THE WEST COAST. AS THE RIDGE SHIFTS INTO THE WEST COAST...THIS WILL FORCE HILLARY MORE OFF SHORE AND LESSEN ITS IMPACT ON THE REGION. ALL MODELS DO SHOW A MORE WESTWARD TRAJECTORY WITH THE BULK OF ITS MOISTURE MOVING WEST BY NORTHWEST. DURING THE EASTWARD MOVEMENT OF THE RIDGE...WILL SEE A SLIGHT WARM UP BY THE WEEKEND. WILL NOT INTRODUCE ANY WEATHER AT THIS TIME AS MOISTURE THAT MAY BE ADVECTED IN FROM HILLARY WILL MAINLY BE HIGH LEVEL AND PUSHED IN FROM THE SOUTHWEST. WHILE CLOUD COVER MAY INCREASE... CONDITIONS MAY NOT FAVOR PRECIP AT THIS TIME. IN ADDITION...MODELS KEEP THE AREA DRY DURING THE PERIOD WITH A HINT OF POSSIBLE MONSOON MOISTURE SURGING INTO THE DESERT BEFORE ANOTHER TROF PUSHES THROUGH THE AREA LATER ON SUNDAY. THIS TROF MAY HELP TO CUT OFF ANY GOOD NORTHWARD ADVANCE OF THE MONSOON INTO THE DISTRICT AND PREVENT ANY POSSIBLE PRECIP THIS WEEKEND. OTHERWISE...WILL SEE A COOL DOWN ON SUNDAY AS THE TROF PASSES THROUGH THE REGION. && .AVIATION...VFR CONDITIONS CAN BE EXPECTED THROUGH AT LEAST 00Z TUESDAY. PLEASE REFER TO TAFS AT KMCE...KFAT AND KBFL FOR SPECIFIC DETAILS. && .HNX...WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...NONE. && WWW.WEATHER.GOV/HANFORD /USE ALL LOWER CASE/ SANGER/MOLINA
1 wildfire. Local standard time, as filed.
The "33" Fire of undetermined origin burned 400 acres 7.6 miles northeast of Madera on the 21st. The cost to fight the fire was unknown but no structures were lost nor injuries occurred.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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