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 22, 8:20 AM PST, 3 hours 40 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HANFORD CA 920 AM PDT FRI JUL 22 2005 .SHORT TERM...FOR THE CENTRAL CALIFORNIA INTERIOR...TEMPERATURES THIS MORNING CONTINUING TO RUN SOME 10 DEG-F BELOW THAT OF THURSDAY. MAIN CAUSE TO THIS COOLING HAS BEEN AN INTRUSION OF MARINE AIR BROUGHT ON BY A SHORT WAVE TROF THAT PUSHED INTO NORTHERN CALIFORNIA LAST NIGHT. PROFILER DATA FROM FORT ORD SHOWED THE MARINE LAYER AT JUST ABOVE 2000 FEET THIS MORNING. WHILE CONDITIONS WILL CONTINUE TO FEEL HOT TODAY...THE MARINE AIR INTRUSION WILL ONLY ALLOW TEMPERATURES TO REACH THE MID 90S TO AROUND 103. THIS COOLING SHOULD BE AROUND 5 DEG-F OF COOLING FROM THAT OF THURSDAY. IN ADDITION... WITH A MARINE LAYER DEPTH OF ONLY 2000 FEET...ONLY THE VALLEY FLOOR AND LOWER FOOTHILL WILL EXPERIENCE THIS SLIGHT COOLING TODAY. NOT MUCH COOLING EXPECTED OVER THE HIGHER TERRAIN AS MESOSCALE INFLUENCES WILL BE THE ONLY FACTOR TODAY. FURTHERMORE...UPPER FLOW BECOMING MORE SOUTHWESTERLY TODAY. WHILE THE THREAT OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL DIMINISH TODAY...MAY STILL SEE AN ISOLATED CELL POP UP THIS AFTERNOON. THEREFORE...WILL MAINTAIN A SLIGHT CHANCE OVER THE SIERRA NEVADA CREST AS MODELS STILL PLACING SOME LI/S AND CAPE VALUES OVER THE MOUNTAINS. .PREV DISCUSSION...SHORT RANGE MODELS QUICKLY REBUILD THE RIDGE OVER THE AREA SATURDAY AND SUNDAY WITH THE RETURN OF SOUTHEAST FLOW ALOFT ADVECTING IN THE MOISTURE FROM REMNANTS OF EMILY. ONE INHIBITING FACTOR MAY BE THE 500 MB HIGH CENTER NOW BEING PROJECTED TO BUILD WEST FROM OVER THE AREA SATURDAY AND SUNDAY. THIS MAY KEEP THE DEEPEST MOISTURE OVER SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA. CURRENT GRIDS HAVE CHANCE POPS OVER THE KERN COUNTY MOUNTAIN AND DESERT AREAS AND THIS WILL STILL BE FINE. TEMPERATURES UNDER THE HIGH WILL REMAIN HOT. && .AVIATION...VFR CONDITIONS WILL PERSIST FOR ALL AREAS THROUGH 18Z SATURDAY. REFER TO TAFS AT KMCE...KFAT...AND KBFL FOR DETAILS. && .HNX...WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...NONE. && WWW.WEATHER.GOV/HANFORD /USE ALL LOWER CASE/ MOLINA/DUDLEY
1 wildfire. Local standard time, as filed.
The Comb Fire was lightning initiated but allowed to burn as a resource fire 18 miles northeast of Grant Grove in Fresno County. It consumed 1193 acres by the end of July but no injuries occurred nor were any structures lost. The cost to battle and manage the fire reached 105.1K by the end of July.
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, July 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: 5466624.