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 27, 1:40 PM PST, 1 hour 20 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HANFORD CA 240 PM PDT SAT AUG 27 2005 .SHORT TERM...FOR THE CENTRAL CALIFORNIA INTERIOR...TRIPLE DIGIT HEAT IS COMMONPLACE IN THE SJ VLY THIS AFTN...AND A RECURRENCE IS EXPECTED SUNDAY WHILE A STRONG UPPER LEVEL RIDGE IS PARKED OVER THE CWA. THE MODELS ARE A NOW A LITTLE SLOWER BREAKING DOWN THIS RIDGE COMPARED TO EARLIER RUNS. NONETHELESS...MONDAY WILL BE THE TRANSITION DAY TO COOLER WEATHER ACROSS THE CENTRAL CA INTERIOR. THE STORM SYSTEM THAT WILL HELP BRING THE COOLER CHANGE IN OUR WEATHER IS CURRENTLY CENTERED OFF THE BRITISH COLUMBIA COAST. THE MODELS FORECAST THIS TROUGH TO DEEPEN DURING THE NEXT 36 HRS...THEN MOVE INTO THE PAC NW MONDAY. DURING THIS TIME...ONSHORE GRADIENTS WILL INCREASE ACROSS CENTRAL CA AND MONDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING WILL BECOME BREEZY IN THE SJ VLY WHILE WINDS PICK UP IN THE KERN CO MTNS AND DESERT. MARINE AIR WILL BEGIN TO FLOW INTO THE SJ VLY MONDAY...BUT IT WILL BE TOO SHALLOW TO MAKE MUCH OF A DIFFERENCE SOUTH OF MERCED COUNTY. MAX TEMPS FOR MONDAY WERE MODIFIED UPWARD BY A FEW DEGREES SINCE THE MODELS FORECAST 850 MB TEMPS BETWEEN 24C AND 28C. TRANSLATED...MAX TEMPS MONDAY WILL AGAIN BE CLOSE TO IF NOT SLIGHTLY ABOVE THE CENTURY MARK IN THE SJ VLY AND LOWER FTHLS. THE UPPER LEVEL TROUGH IS FORECAST TO SETTLE SOUTHWARD MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...DEEPEN THE MARINE LAYER ALONG THE COAST...AND BRING NOTICEABLY COOLER AIR INTO THE CENTRAL CA INTERIOR. MAX TEMPS TUESDAY WILL BE NEAR OR SLIGHTLY BELOW SEASONAL NORMALS. && .LONG TERM...FOR TUESDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY...MEDIUM RANGE MODELS GENERALY AGREE ON SHORTWAVE ENERGY CONTINUING TO ROTATE THROUGH THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST DURING THE EXTENDED PERIOD...KEEPING THE UPPER RIDGE FROM BUILDING BACK ACROSS OUR REGION. EXPECT TEMPERATURES TO SHOW ONLY MINOR FLUCTUATIONS THROUGH THE END OF THE WEEK...REMAINING GENERALLY NEAR SEASONAL NORMS. INCREASED ONSHORE SURFACE PRESSURE GRADIENTS AND PASSING SHORTWAVES WILL PROVIDE PERIODS OF GUSTY WINDS IN THE KERN MOUNTAINS AND DESERTS. THE LACK OF AVAILABLE MOISTURE WILL KEEP THE FORECAST FREE OF PRECIPITATION THROUGHOUT THE PERIOD. && .AVIATION...VFR CONDITIONS WILL PREVAIL THROUGH AT LEAST 00Z MONDAY. SPECIFIC DETAILS CAN BE FOUND IN THE TAFS FOR KMCE...KFAT AND KBFL. && .HNX...WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...NONE. && WWW.WEATHER.GOV/HANFORD /USE ALL LOWER CASE/ DURFEE/JEB
1 wildfire. Local standard time, as filed.
The Well Fire was of unknown origin 20 miles north of Tehachapi in the Kern County Mountains. The fire reached 120 acres in size. The cost to fight the fire was unknown but no injuries occurred nor structures lost.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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