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, 8:30 PM PST, 1 hour 53 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HANFORD CA 930 PM PDT TUE JUL 26 2005 .SHORT TERM...FOR THE CENTRAL CALIFORNIA INTERIOR...LARGE HIGH PRESSURE DOME BROUGHT ANOTHER HOT DAY TO THE CWFA WITH TRIPLE DIGIT MAX TEMPS ONCE AGAIN IN THE SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY...THE SOUTHERN SIERRA NEVADA FOOTHILLS AND THE KERN DESERTS. AIRMASS DRYING TODAY HELPED INHIBIT CONVECTION OVER OUR CWFA WHILE THUNDERSTORMS DID AFFECT SOUTHEASTERN CA WHERE MOISTURE SUPPLY WAS AMPLE ENOUGH TO ALLOW FOR THUNDERSTORMS TO DEVELOP. 00Z NAM/NGM INDICATE THE RIDGE WILL CONTINUE TO BUILD INLAND INTO THE DESERT SOUTH TONIGHT AND WEDNESDAY. TEMPERATURES ARE CURRENTLY RUNNING A FEW DEG F ABOVE YDAY AT THIS TIME AND ARE ON TARGET TO REACH FORECASTED MINS TONIGHT WHILE THE FORECAST FOR TONIGHT AND WEDNESDAY LOOKS TO BE IN FAIRLY GOOD SHAPE. NO UPDATES ANTICIPATED THIS EVENING. WITH CONTINUED RISES IN HEIGHTS AND THICKNESSES ON WEDNESDAY AND LACK OF ONSHORE P-GRADS. EXPECT MAX TEMPS WEDNESDAY TO BE A BIT WARMER THAN TODAY. AS THE RIDGE BUILDS INLAND...A RETURN SOUTHEAST FLOW ALOFT WILL SET UP OVER CENTRAL CA WHICH MIGHT ALLOW FOR SOME UPPER LEVEL MOISTURE TO STREAM INTO THE MOUNTAINS AND KERN DESERTS FOR HIGH BASED CONVECTION BY WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON ALTHOUGH A BETTER CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS EXISTS ON THURSDAY SINCE CAPE AND INSTABILITY WILL BE MORE FAVORABLE. PROGS CONTINUE TO INDICATE AN UPPER LOW MOVING THROUGH THE PAC NW WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY WHICH WILL WEAKEN THE RIDGE A BIT AND A SLIGHT DROP IN DIURNAL TEMPERATURES. LITTLE CHANGE IS EXPECTED ON FRIDAY AS THE UPPER RIDGE REMAINS PARKED OVER THE FOUR CORNERS ARE AND THE RETURN SOUTH TO SOUTHEAST FLOW ALOFT ALLOWS FOR SOME UPPER MOISTURE TO STREAM INTO OUR EASTERN ZONES. .LONG TERM...FROM PREVIOUS DISCUSSION...FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY...UPPER HIGH NEAR THE FOUR-CORNERS WILL PROVIDE A S-SE FLOW ALOFT OVER CENTRAL CA ON DAYS 4-7. GIVEN PROXIMITY OF MONSOON MOISTURE IN THE SHORT TERM...PATTERN WILL SUSTAIN MOISTURE ADVECTION NORTHWARD INTO THE KERN MTNS/DESERTS AND SRN SIERRA THRU EARLY NEXT WEEK. HAVE THEREFORE INTRODUCED LOW POPS FOR AFTN/EVE CONVECTION IN HIGHER MTN ZONES AND ACROSS THE KERN DESERT FOR SAT-TUES. OTHERWISE WITH 850 MB TEMPS REMAINING IN THE MID 20C RANGE...TEMPS ALOFT WILL SUPPORT DAYTIME HIGHS SLIGHTLY ABOVE NORMAL IN THE CWA INTO EARLY NEXT WEEK. && .AVIATION...VFR CONDITIONS WILL PERSIST FOR ALL AREAS THROUGH 00Z THURSDAY. REFER TO TAFS AT KMCE...KFAT...AND KBFL FOR DETAILS. && .HNX...WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...NONE. && WWW.WEATHER.GOV/HANFORD /USE ALL LOWER CASE/ DS/JSN
1 wildfire. Local standard time, as filed.
The Rock Fire burned 440 acres within the Tule Indian Reservation approximately 13.5 miles east of Porterville in Tulare County. The cause of the fire was under investigation and the cost to fight was unknown. No injuries occurred or structures lost during the fire.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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