Flood in California, June 1, 2005

Name: Flood in California, June 1, 2005
Start: 2005-06-01T00:00
End: 2005-06-01T11:00
Location: California

June 1, 2005 · NWS HNX · 1 event in 1 county or zone

1 flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.

The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: None recorded
Crop damage: None recorded
Events: 1

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.

What forecasters said that day

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 May 31, 7:30 PM PST, 4 hours 30 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 31, 7:30 PM PST, 4 hours 30 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HANFORD CA
830 PM PDT TUE MAY 31 2005

.SHORT TERM...FOR THE CENTRAL CALIFORNIA INTERIOR...VIS LOOP
INDICATING SKIES ARE MOSTLY CLEAR OVER THE CENTRAL CA INTERIOR
THIS EVENING AS THE UPPER LOW OVER THE PAC NW AND IT/S ASSOCIATED
TROUGH EXTENDING SOUTHWARD INTO NORCAL HAS HAD LITTLE IMPACT ON
OUR CWFA. TEMPS ARE GENERALLY RUNNING 6-8 DEG F ABOVE YDAY AT THIS
TIME. WITH WINDS EXPECTED TO SLOWLY DIMINISH OVERNIGHT AND SKIES
EXPECTED TO REMAIN CLEAR...ANTICIPATE OVERNIGHT MIN TEMPS TO REACH
FORECASTED VALUES. THE REMAINDER OF THE FORECAST LOOKS ON TARGET FOR
TONIGHT AND WEDNESDAY SO WILL NOT UPDATE THE CURRENT GRID AND TEXT
PACKAGES THIS EVENING.

00Z NAM/NGM/GFS INDICATE THAT THE PAC NW TROUGH WILL MOVE INTO THE
INTERMOUNTAIN WEST OVERNIGHT. A STRONG UPPER VORT IS THEN EXPECTED TO
DROP BEHIND THE DEPARTING TROUGH AS IT DEEPENS OVER THE NORTHERN
ROCKIES WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY. THIS SYSTEM IS EXPECTED TO TAKE AN
INSIDE SLIDER TRAJECTORY AND DROP SOUTHEAST OVER NV THURSDAY NIGHT...
RESULTING IN A DRY COLD FRONTAL PASSAGE USHERING IN ANOTHER SHOT OF
COOLER AIR ALONG WITH A BRIEF STRENGTHENING OF P-GRADS AND SUBSEQUENT
WINDY CONDITIONS ACROSS THE KERN MOUNTAINS AND DESERTS FOR THURSDAY
EVENING. SINCE HIGH WIND WARNING CRITERIA IS NOT ANTICIPATED...DO
NOT ANTICIPATE THE NEED FOR A HIGH WIND WATCH. HOWEVER...WILL LIKELY
NEED TO ISSUE A WIND ADVISORY FOR THESE AREAS AS THE TIME APPROACHES.
WITH THE MODELS GOING A BIT SLOWER ON THE TIMING OF THIS SYSTEM...THE
ANTICIPATED COOLING FOR THURSDAY WILL PROBABLY BE SLOWED DOWN A BIT.
MAX TEMPS FOR THURSDAY WILL PROBABLY NEED TO BE BUMPED UP SOME AS 00Z
GUIDANCE IS SEVERAL DEG F ABOVE WHAT IS CURRENTLY FORECASTED. WILL
MAKE THIS RECOMMENDATION TO THE MIDNIGHT SHIFT. RH PROGS INDICATING
ANY MOISTURE WITH THIS SYSTEM WILL REMAIN NORTHEAST OF OUR AREA SO
THE MENTIONED CLEAR SKIES FORECAST LOOKS GOOD. ANTICIPATE THAT MAX
TEMPS ON FRIDAY WILL BE WELL BELOW SEASONAL NORMALS FOR EARLY JUNE AS
A COOL AND DRY NORTHWEST FLOW BRINGS A GOOD SHOT OF CAA TO CENTRAL
CA.  DS

.LONG TERM...FROM PREVIOUS DISCUSSION...FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH
TUESDAY...THE DISTRICT REMAINS UNDER A WEAKLY CYCLONIC BUT DRY FLOW
THROUGH AT LEAST SUNDAY NIGHT. MODERATE ONSHORE FLOW CONTINUES SO
EXPECT MILD TEMPERATURES WITH OCCASIONALLY BREEZY CONDITIONS BELOW
THE KERN COUNTY MOUNTAIN PASSES. SOME DISAGREEMENT GOING INTO THE
NEXT WORK WEEK, AS THE 00Z GFS TENDS TO BE MUCH DEEPER WITH A SERIES
OF DISTURBANCES MOVING INTO THE PACNW THAN THE ECMWF. PREFER A WEAKER
AND MORE PROGRESSIVE, QUASI-ZONAL PATTERN WHICH WILL REINFORCE THE
ONSHORE FLOW AND PROVIDE ONLY VERY SLIGHT COOLING. GENERALLY CLEAR
SKIES THROUGH THE PERIOD ALTHOUGH A FEW CUMULUS WILL LIKELY APPEAR
EACH AFTERNOON OVER THE SIERRA NEVADA.  BURGER

.AVIATION...VFR CONDITIONS WILL CONTINUE FOR ALL CENTRAL AND
SOUTHERN SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY LOCATIONS THROUGH AT LEAST 06Z
THURSDAY. REFER TO TAFS AT KMCE, KFAT, AND KBFL.  JSN

&&

.HNX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...NONE.

&&

WWW.WEATHER.GOV/HANFORD /USE ALL LOWER CASE/

Hazardous weather outlook, May 31, 4:30 AM PST, 19 hours 30 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY - HANFORD CA
530 AM PDT TUE MAY 31 2005

CAZ095-098-099-011200-
KERN COUNTY MOUNTAINS-INDIAN WELLS VALLEY-
SOUTHEASTERN KERN COUNTY DESERT-
530 AM PDT TUE MAY 31 2005

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE KERN COUNTY MOUNTAINS...
THE INDIAN WELLS VALLEY...AND THE SOUTHEASTERN KERN COUNTY DESERT.

.DAY ONE...TODAY

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY

WIND ADVISORIES MAY BE REQUIRED WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY. NO HAZARDOUS
WEATHER IS EXPECTED FRIDAY THROUGH MONDAY.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

WEATHER SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER
CONDITIONS TO THEIR LOCAL NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE.

CAZ089>094-096-097-011200-
WEST CENTRAL SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY-EAST CENTRAL SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY-
SOUTHWESTERN SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY-SOUTHEASTERN SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY-
MARIPOSA MADERA AND FRESNO COUNTY FOOTHILLS-TULARE COUNTY FOOTHILLS-
SIERRA NEVADA FROM YOSEMITE TO KINGS CANYON-TULARE COUNTY MOUNTAINS-
530 AM PDT TUE MAY 31 2005

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN
SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY...THE SOUTHERN SIERRA NEVADA...AND THE
SIERRA NEVADA FOOTHILLS.

.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...

WEATHER SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER
CONDITIONS TO THEIR LOCAL NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE.

JEB

Event by event

1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.

Flood, S Sierra Mtns

When: June 1, 12:00 AM PST to 11:00 AM PST
Where: S Sierra Mtns forecast zone
Reported by: PARK/FOREST SERVICE

See May 2005 Stormdata in regard to Merced River flooding in Yosemite Valley.

What these are

Flood: Flooding that develops more slowly than a flash flood: rivers leaving their banks, or water standing over land for an extended time.

After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.

The same day elsewhere

Every storm in California in 2005 Every state in 2005 This day in weather history Warnings in California, June 2005

Sources

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: 5462015.