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 27, 8:10 AM PST, 7 hours 11 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY - HANFORD CA ISSUED BY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SACRAMENTO CA 910 AM PDT WED JUL 27 2005 .SHORT TERM... LITTLE CHANGE FROM EARLY MORNING PACKAGE. STRONG UPPER RIDGE IS IN PLACE ACROSS CENTRAL CALIFORNIA TODAY AND WILL KEEP CONDITIONS HOT AND DRY. WITH THE STRONG RIDGE AND SUBSIDENCE OVERHEAD...MORNING OBSERVED SOUNDINGS AT KDRA AND KREV SHOW A LITTLE STRONGER CAP AT ABOUT 550 MBS TODAY WITH DRY ADIABATIC LAPSE RATES BELOW. SO EXPECT LITTLE OR NO DEEP CONVECTION AGAIN TODAY. BY THURSDAY...THE CENTER OF THE STRONG HIGH SHIFTS FURTHER BACK TO THE EAST NEAR THE FOUR CORNERS WHICH WILL ALLOW A LITTLE DEEPER MID-LEVEL MOISTURE TO ADVECT NORTHWARD. IN ADDITION...DON/T EXPECT AS MUCH OF A CAP THURSDAY SO EXPECT AND UPSWING IN DEEP CONVECTION ACROSS THE HIGHER ELEVATIONS OF THE CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN SIERRA NEVADA...THOUGH MEAN FLOW WILL LIKELY CARRY DEVELOPING STORMS EAST OF THE CREST. PREVIOUS DISCUSSION...FOR THE CENTRAL CALIFORNIA INTERIOR...THE UPPER-LEVEL RIDGE REMAINS OVERHEAD...WITH CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY HIGHS IN TRIPLE DIGITS AT LEAST THE NEXT TWO DAYS. THE 00Z MODELS ARE IN GOOD AGREEMENT WITH THE RIDGE CENTER MIGRATING WEST TODAY INTO SOUTHWESTERN NEVADA...SO EXPECT TODAY TO BE A BIT WARMER THAN TUESDAY. THE MODELS CONTINUE TO FORECAST THE NEXT UPPER-LEVEL TROUGH TO APPROACH THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST/NORTHERN CALIFORNIA COAST THIS EVENING AND MOVE ONSHORE THURSDAY. THIS WILL LOWER 500-MB HEIGHT AND 1000-500-MB THICKNESSES BY ABOUT 40 METERS...AND 850-MB TEMPERATURES BY 1-2 C ACROSS THE CENTRAL CALIFORNIA INTERIOR. AT THE SURFACE... LOW PRESSURE OVER THE GREAT BASIN AND HIGH PRESSURE OVER THE PACIFIC WILL TIGHTEN PRESSURE GRADIENTS FOR AN ONSHORE FLOW... BRINGING MARINE AIR INTO THE SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY. THIS WILL LOWER TEMPERATURES A FEW DEGREES THURSDAY...ALTHOUGH TEMPERATURES WILL BE A FEW DEGREES ABOVE NORMAL IN MOST AREAS. THE MODELS FORECAST THE TROUGH TO REMAIN ALONG THE COAST FRIDAY FOR A BIT MORE COOLING. FOR THE CENTRAL SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY...DOUBLE- DIGIT TEMPERATURES WILL BE MORE COMMON DUE TO THE EFFECTS OF THE MARINE AIR. DO NOT HAVE HIGH CONFIDENCE IN THE THREAT FOR MOUNTAIN/DESERT CONVECTION TODAY...AS ONLY THE GFS BRINGS ANY MID-LEVEL MOISTURE TO THE SOUTHERN SIERRA NEVADA CREST...AND THE GFS AND NAM-12 HAVE LIMITED INSTABILITY. THE WS-ETA IS BOTH DRY AND STABLE TODAY. PER DISCUSSIONS WITH WFO RENO...HAVE CONFINED SLIGHT CHANCE POPS TO ALONG THE SOUTHERN SIERRA NEVADA CREST...AND HAVE REMOVED POPS FROM THE KERN COUNTY MOUNTAINS AND DESERTS. THE MODELS CONTINUE TO FORECAST BETTER CHANCES FOR CONVECTION BEGINNING THURSDAY AS THE RIDGE CENTER MOVES EAST IN RESPONSE TO THE TROUGH ALONG THE COAST. THIS TURNS THE FLOW ALOFT MORE SOUTHERLY TO DRAW MOISTURE INTO THE REGION. .LONG TERM...FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY...MODELS IN GOOD AGREEMENT IN THE SHORT TERM. AND SHOW AN UPPER HIGH NEAR THE FOUR-CORNERS REGION PROVIDING A S-SE FLOW ALOFT OVER CENTRAL CALIFORNIA. GIVEN PROXIMITY OF MONSOON MOISTURE...THIS SHOULD SUSTAIN MOISTURE ADVECTION NORTHWARD INTO THE KERN MTNS/DESERTS AND SRN SIERRA THRU EARLY NEXT WEEK. STRONG DIURNAL HEATING ALONG WITH INCREASING INSTABILITY WILL RESULT IN A THREAT CONVECTION DURING THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING OVER THE MOUNTAINS AND THE MOJAVE DESERTS. 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. THE 00Z EURO/CAN STARTING TO DIVERGE AND SHOW A MORE STABLE AND COOL WEST FLOW DEVELOPING OVER CALIFORNIA EARLY NEXT WEEK. AT THIS POINT WILL WAIT UNTIL BETTER MODEL CONSENSUS BEFORE MAKING SIGNIFICANT CHANGES TO MEDIUM RANGE FORECAST. && .AVIATION...VFR CONDITIONS WILL PERSIST FOR ALL AREAS THROUGH AT LEAST 12Z THURSDAY. REFER TO TAFS AT KMCE...KFAT...AND KBFL FOR DETAILS. && .HNX...WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...NONE. && WWW.WEATHER.GOV/HANFORD /USE ALL LOWER CASE/ SANGER/VASQUEZ/DFR
1 wildfire. Local standard time, as filed.
The Red Fire burned 840 acres 9 miles east of Fountain Springs in the Tulare County Foothills. The fire was human caused but no injuries or structures were lost. The cost to battle fire was $1.0M.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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