Heavy Rain, Fresno
- When
- June 1, 12:00 AM PST to June 30, 11:59 PM PST
- Where
- Fresno County, Countywide
- Reported by
- OFFICIAL NWS OBS.
- Coordinates
- 36.758, -119.649 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Heavy Rain in California, June 1 to 30, 2005
The 2004-2005 cool season in Interior Central California was one of the better rain accumulation years recently. Rain periods with snow at the higher elevations started in mid-October and continued consistently through mid-May.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it; 4 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.
- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 4
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 happened
The episode as NWS HNX wrote it up.
The 2004-2005 cool season in Interior Central California was one of the better rain accumulation years recently. Rain periods with snow at the higher elevations started in mid-October and continued consistently through mid-May. This water year was in stark contrast to the averaged below normal rainfall from the past 6 years. Generally the Central and South San Joaquin Valley ended with 140% of rainfall normals while the higher elevation snowpack for the Southern Sierra Nevada finished at 185% of normal and the Kern River Basin on the Southern end of the S.Sierra Nevada at 154% of normal. From October through May every month had above normal rain/snow amounts with the exception of just below normal precipitation for November and April. October, December, and May had significantly large amounts of rain/snow. Furthermore, the mountain snowpack was marked by its staying power as cool weather persisted into June and reservoirs were able to hold more water for a longer period of time than ever seen before. Campgrounds at the higher elevations of the Southern Sierra Nevada in Yosemite National Park did not open for the summer of 2005 due to the large and late snowpack.
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
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
4 heavy rain. Local standard time, as filed.
Heavy Rain, Mariposa
- When
- June 1, 12:00 AM PST to June 30, 11:59 PM PST
- Where
- Mariposa County, Countywide
- Reported by
- OFFICIAL NWS OBS.
- Coordinates
- 37.582, -119.905 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Heavy Rain, Kern
- When
- June 1, 12:00 AM PST to June 30, 11:59 PM PST
- Where
- Kern County, Countywide
- Reported by
- OFFICIAL NWS OBS.
- Coordinates
- 35.343, -118.730 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Heavy Rain, Tulare
- When
- June 1, 12:00 AM PST to June 30, 11:59 PM PST
- Where
- Tulare County, Countywide
- Reported by
- OFFICIAL NWS OBS.
- Coordinates
- 36.220, -118.800 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
What these are
- Heavy Rain
- Rainfall totals unusual for the place and season that did not produce a flood.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Debris Flow in California, June 1, 2005
- Damaging Winds and Drought in Texas, June 1 to 30, 2005
- Flash Flood in North Dakota, June 1 to 2, 2005
- Tornado and Hail in Texas, June 1, 2005
- Flash Flood in North Dakota, June 1 to 2, 2005
- Flood in New Mexico, June 1 to 4, 2005
- Flash Flood in North Dakota, June 1 to 2, 2005
- Flash Flood in North Dakota, June 1 to 2, 2005
- Tornadoes in Texas, June 1, 2005
- Tornado in North Dakota, June 1, 2005
- Tornado in North Dakota, June 1, 2005
- Tornado in North Dakota, June 1, 2005
More
Every storm in California in 2005Every state in 2005This day in weather historyWarnings 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: 5462024, 5462025, 5462086, 5462087.