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 26, 7:00 AM PST, 6 hours 11 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HANFORD CA 800 AM PDT TUE JUL 26 2005 .SHORT TERM...FOR THE CENTRAL CALIFORNIA INTERIOR...SKIES ARE CLEAR WITH TEMPERATURES AT OR SLIGHTLY BELOW READINGS FROM 24 HOURS EARLIER. THE LOW LEVEL SOUNDING FROM FRESNO THIS MORNING IS ALSO REFLECTIVE OF THIS TREND THROUGH 5K FEET. DESPITE THE COOLER START, TEMPERATURES SHOULD HAVE NO PROBLEM REACHING THE VALUES OF YESTERDAY, IF NOT A LITTLE HIGHER. AS WAS THE CASE YESTERDAY, MOISTURE LOOKS LIMITED AND THUS ONLY A FEW CUMULUS CLOUDS ARE EXPECTED OVER THE MOUNTAINS, WITH SUNNY SKIES PERSISTING ELSEWHERE. THE WEAK TROUGH LOCATED OUT NEAR 135W WILL CONTINUE TO DRIFT EAST, AND WILL HELP INDUCE A SOUTHERLY FLOW ALOFT BY TOMORROW. MOISTURE RIDING IN ON THIS FLOW LOOKS PRETTY MEAGER, SO MAY HAVE TO RE- EVALUATE OUR POPS FOR THE MOUNTAINS AND DESERT TOMORROW. THE APPROACHING TROUGH WILL RESULT IN A STEADILY DEEPENING MARINE LAYER AND INCREASING ONSHORE GRADS, THOUGH, AND THE VALLEY SHOULD SEE A MARINE INTRUSION BY WEDNESDAY NIGHT. THIS WILL BRING COOLER TEMPERATURES TO THE VALLEY FOR THURSDAY, WITH SLIGHT COOLING ALSO FOR OTHER AREAS. ALTHOUGH MOISTURE AVAILABILITY LOOKS SLIGHTLY BETTER FOR CONVECTION OVER THE EASTERN ZONES THURSDAY, COVERAGE STILL LOOKS TO BE ISOLATED. CURRENT FORECAST LOOKS FINE AND NO UPDATES FOR THIS MORNING. .LONG TERM...PREVIOUS DISCUSSION THURSDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY... MEDIUM RANGE MODELS CONTINUE TO REMAIN IN FAIRLY GOOD AGREEMENT THROUGH THE END OF THE WEEK. HIGH PRESSURE WILL REMAIN THE DOMINATE WEATHER FEATURE OVER THE SOUTHWESTERN STATES. A SHORTWAVE TROF APPROACHING NRN CALIFORNIA THURSDAY WILL SHIFT WINDS ALOFT TO PREDOMINATELY SOUTHWEST...WHILE THE HIGH SHIFTS EAST TOWARDS THE FOUR CORNERS REGION OF THE NATION. THIS PATTERN SHOULD BE A RELATIVELY DRY AND STABLE FLOW OVER THE CENTRAL CALIFORNIA INTERIOR. GFS SHOWS SOME MID TO UPPER LEVEL MONSOONAL MOISTURE OVER SOUTHERN CA AND THE HIGH DESERTS DURING THE WEEKEND. BUT THINK CONVECTIVE THREAT SHOULD BE MINIMAL WITH A SOUTH TO SOUTHWEST STABLE MID LEVEL FLOW OVER THE REGION. A WEAK TROF ALONG WITH THE MARITIME FLOW WILL CAUSE HEIGHTS TO LOWER SOMEWHAT FOR SAT AND SUN RESULTING IN A FEW DEGREES COOLING...OTHERWISE REMAINING DRY THROUGH THE PERIOD WITH NEAR TO SLIGHTLY ABOVE NORMAL TEMPERATURES. && .AVIATION...VFR CONDITIONS WILL PERSIST FOR ALL AREAS THROUGH 18Z WEDNESDAY. REFER TO TAFS AT KMCE...KFAT...AND KBFL FOR DETAILS. && .HNX...WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...NONE. && WWW.WEATHER.GOV/HANFORD /USE ALL LOWER CASE/ BURGER/MV
1 wildfire. Local standard time, as filed.
The Blue Fire near Woody in Kern County burned 758 acres and its cause was under investigation. 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.
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: 5466626.