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 Jul 19, 2:40 AM PST, 3 hours 31 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HANFORD CA
340 AM PDT TUE JUL 19 2005
.SHORT TERM...FOR THE CENTRAL CALIFORNIA INTERIOR...OVERALL PATN
WILL REMAIN STAGNANT FOR AT LEAST THE NEXT 72 HRS AS FOUR CORNERS
HIGH MAINTAINS A STRONG HOLD ON CA. ACTUALLY...THE MAJORITY OF
THE MODELS BUILD THE RIDGE A LITTLE STRONGER OVER THE CWA TODAY
WHILE WARMING 850 MB TEMPS ANOTHER 1-2 DEGREES C. THIS WOULD
SUPPORT MAX TEMPS AT OR SLIGHTLY ABOVE MONDAY READINGS THROUGHOUT
THE CENTRAL CA INTERIOR. AND INDEED...MOS GUIDANCE PROJECTS THIS
TREND NICELY FOR TODAY. HOWEVER...A VERY SHALLOW INTRUSION OF
MARINE AIR HAS WORKED ITS WAY THRU THE SAC DELTA AND INTO THE
NRN SJ VLY EARLY THIS MORNING...THANKS TO A SLIGHTLY STRONGER
ONSHORE GRADIENT. TEMPS AT MOST REPORTING STATIONS IN THE SJ VLY
NORTH OF KERN CO ARE CURRENTLY RUNNING A FEW DEGREES LOWER THAN
24 HRS AGO. YET THE DEPTH OF THE MARINE LAYER ALONG THE COAST
HAS NOT CHANGED SINCE MONDAY MORNING...CURRENTLY AT ABOUT 1200 FT
AT FORT ORD. THIS SUGGESTS THAT WHATEVER MARINE EFFECTS ARE IN
PLACE IN THE SJ VLY THIS MORNING WILL BE MIXED OUT RATHER QUICKLY
BY MIDDAY AS THE UPPER LEVEL RIDGE BUILDS MORE STRONGLY OVER US.
THIS JUSTIFIES CONTINUING THE HEAT ADVISORY FOR THE SJ VLY TODAY.
AND WHILE THE AIRMASS OVER THE CENTRAL CA INTERIOR REMAINS DRY AND
STABLE...EXPECT LITTLE MORE THAN A FEW CUMULUS CLOUDS OVER THE
HIGHEST ELEVATIONS THE NEXT FEW AFTERNOONS.
THE MODELS FORECAST LITTLE CHANGE IN 500 MB HEIGHTS AND 850 MB
TEMPS WED AND THU ALTHOUGH ON THURSDAY THE GFS TRIES TO BRING
A WEAK 50H LOW INTO THE NORTHWESTERN CORNER OF CA AND INTO THE
PAC NW. WHILE THIS MAY ENHANCE THE ONSHORE FLOW A BIT ALONG THE
IMMEDIATE COAST...IT WILL NOT BE STRONG ENOUGH TO TRIM THE HEAT
IN THE SJ VLY THURSDAY. SO IT APPEARS THAT THE HEAT ADVISORY FOR
THE CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN SJ VLY MAY NEED TO BE CONTINUED WEDNESDAY
AND PERHAPS THURSDAY.
.LONG TERM...THURSDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY...STATUS QUO THROUGH
FRIDAY...HOT AND DRY. THINGS GET A LITTLE MORE INTERESTING BY THE
WEEKEND AS GFS PROGS MID LEVEL MOISTURE FROM THE REMNANTS OF EMILY
ADVECTING INTO OUR AREA...HOWEVER AT THE SAME TIME...A TROUGH
SLIDING INTO THE PAC NW WILL LOWER HEIGHTS AND INCREASE OUR
WESTERLY/SWLY FLOW ALOFT, PERHAPS CONFINING MOISTURE TO SOUTHERN
HALF OF OUR FORECAST AREA. A FAIR AMOUNT OF MODEL INCONSISTENCIES
EXIST BETWEEN GFS/EURO/CANADIAN/NOGAPS...THUS CONFIDENCE IS LOW
REGARDING THE ARRIVAL OF MONSOON MOISTURE AND THE TIMING OF THE PAC
NW TROUGH PASSAGE SO CHANGES TO THE CURRENT FORECAST WERE MINIMAL.
SLIGHT CHANCE OF T-STORMS IN THE MTNS AND KERN DESERT THIS WEEKEND
STILL LOOKS REASONABLE. WILL SHAVE A FEW DEGREES OFF MAX TEMPS EACH
DAY STARTING SATURDAY...ESPECIALLY SOUTH OF FRESNO TO ACCOUNT FOR
THE LIKELIHOOD OF INCREASED MOISTURE.
&&
.AVIATION...VFR CONDITIONS WILL PERSIST FOR ALL AREAS TODAY AND
TONIGHT. REFER TO TAFS AT KMCE...KFAT...AND KBFL FOR DETAILS.
&&
.HNX...WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...HEAT ADVISORY FOR THE CENTRAL
AND SOUTHERN SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY FROM 1 PM PDT TO 9 PM PDT
TODAY.
&&
WWW.WEATHER.GOV/HANFORD /USE ALL LOWER CASE/
DURFEE/MYERSHAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY - HANFORD CA 500 AM PDT TUE JUL 19 2005 CAZ089>092-201200- WEST CENTRAL SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY-EAST CENTRAL SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY- SOUTHWESTERN SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY-SOUTHEASTERN SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY- 500 AM PDT TUE JUL 19 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY. .DAY ONE...TODAY. A HEAT ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT TODAY FROM 1 PM TO 9 PM PDT. VALLEY TEMPERATURES WILL RANGE FROM 102 TO 110 DEGREES...AND COMBINED WITH RELATIVE HUMIDITIES...THE HEAT INDEX WILL RANGE FROM 105 TO 111 DEGREES THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING. PLEASE REFER TO WEATHER MESSAGE SFONPWHNX...WMO HEADER WWUS76 KHNX...FOR FURTHER DETAILS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. CAZ093>099-201200- MARIPOSA MADERA AND FRESNO COUNTY FOOTHILLS-TULARE COUNTY FOOTHILLS- KERN COUNTY MOUNTAINS-SIERRA NEVADA FROM YOSEMITE TO KINGS CANYON- TULARE COUNTY MOUNTAINS-INDIAN WELLS VALLEY- SOUTHEASTERN KERN COUNTY DESERT- 500 AM PDT TUE JUL 19 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE SOUTHERN SIERRA NEVADA AND ADJACENT FOOTHILLS...AND FOR THE KERN COUNTY MOUNTAINS AND DESERT. .DAY ONE...TODAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. MYERS
1 wildfire. Local standard time, as filed.
The China Lake Fire was human caused and burned 1282 acres 8 miles northwest of Trona in Kern County. No injuries occurred nor were any structures lost. Damage figures were unknown.
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