1 wildfire, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Every event with a place to put it; 1 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.
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 San Diego, CA wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Sep 12, 1:00 PM PST, 18 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN DIEGO CA 200 PM PDT MON SEP 12 2005 .SYNOPSIS...A WEAK UPPER LEVEL LOW PRESSURE TROUGH WILL PERSIST OVER SOUTHWESTERN CALIFORNIA FOR THE BALANCE OF THE WEEK...KEEPING DAYTIME TEMPS BELOW AVERAGE. AREAS OF NIGHT AND MORNING CLOUDS...WITH AFTERNOON CLEARING AND SUNSHINE WILL CONTINUE WEST OF THE MOUNTAINS. MOSTLY CLEAR SKIES...AND GUSTY AFTERNOON AND EVENING WINDS WILL PREVAIL OVER THE MOUNTAINS AND DESERTS. TEMPERATURES WILL SLOWLY INCREASE...BECOMING CLOSER TO SEASONAL NORMALS LATE IN THE WEEK. && .DISCUSSION...FOR EXTREME SOUTHWESTERN CALIFORNIA INCLUDING ORANGE... SAN DIEGO...WESTERN RIVERSIDE AND SOUTHWESTERN SAN BERNARDINO COUNTIES... SATELLITE IMAGERY SHOWS NO STRATUS OVER LAND AND ONLY A SMALL AREA OF STRATUS OVER THE COASTAL WATERS. LATEST ACARS SOUNDINGS SHOW THE INVERSION STILL WEAK AND HOLDING AT AROUND 3200 FT. MODELS KEEP WEAK CYCLONIC...TO FLAT DRY WESTERLY FLOW OVER SW CA THROUGH THE WEEK. THIS SHOULD MEAN ONLY MINOR FLUCTUATIONS IN DAILY WEATHER...MAINLY DUE TO THE DEVELOPMENT AND DISSIPATION OF THE MARINE LAYER CLOUDS WEST OF THE MOUNTAINS...EVEN LESS VARIATION IN THE MTNS AND DESERTS. THE MODELS ARE IN GOOD AGREEMENT...SHOWING A MODEST INCREASE IN THE THICKNESS AND 500 MB HEIGHTS BY THU AND FRI SO A FEW DEGREES OF WARMING ARE POSSIBLE LATER IN THE WEEK. THE WINDS IN THE MTNS AND DESERTS SHOULD ALSO DECREASE LATER IN THE WEEK AS PRESSURE GREDIENTS WEAKEN. LOOKING FARTHER AHEAD...NEXT WEEKEND A STRONGER TROUGH IS FORECAST TO MOVE OVER THE AREA WHICH WOULD MEAN MORE COOLING AND MARINE CLOUDINESS FOR EARLY NEXT WEEK. && .AVIATION...THE MARINE LAYER DEPTH WILL BE AROUND 3000 FEET DEEP TONIGHT WITH A STRONGER INVERSION. A LITTLE LESS WIND OVER THE MOUNTAINS AND DESERTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVE. MORE COMPLETE STRATUS COVERAGE IS EXPECTED TONIGHT DUE TO STRONGER INVERSION AND LESS MIXING WITH HIGHER LAYERS. SCATTER OUT TUE MORNING WILL PROBABLY BE AROUND 17-18Z. && .SGX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...NONE. && PUBLIC...PG AVIATION...MM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN DIEGO IS ON THE INTERNET AT WEATHER.GOV/SANDIEGO
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN DIEGO CA 400 AM PDT MON SEP 12 2005 CAZ042-043-048-050-055-056-057-058-060-061-062-122300- ORANGE COUNTY COASTAL AREAS- SAN DIEGO COUNTY COASTAL AREAS- SAN BERNARDINO AND RIVERSIDE COUNTY VALLEYS-THE INLAND EMPIRE- SAN DIEGO COUNTY VALLEYS- SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY MOUNTAINS- RIVERSIDE COUNTY MOUNTAINS- SANTA ANA MOUNTAINS AND FOOTHILLS- SAN DIEGO COUNTY MOUNTAINS- APPLE AND LUCERNE VALLEYS- COACHELLA VALLEY- SAN DIEGO COUNTY DESERTS- 400 AM PDT MON SEP 12 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR ALL OF EXTREME SOUTHWESTERN CALIFORNIA. .DAY ONE... TODAY AND TONIGHT. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SKYWARN WEATHER SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT REQUESTED FOR THIS AREA... HOWEVER WEATHER SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER CONDITIONS ACCORDING TO STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURES. NOTE...THE HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NOW INCORPORATES THE FLASH FLOOD POTENTIAL INDEX THAT WAS ISSUED SEPARATELY IN PREVIOUS YEARS. THE FLASH FLOOD POTENTIAL INDEX WILL BE INCLUDED IN THE HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IF IT EXCEEDS THE LOW CATEGORY IN THE FIRST TWO DAYS. THIS PRODUCT WILL BE UPDATED DAILY AT 4 AM AND 4 PM OR AS NEEDED THROUGH SEPTEMBER 30. JAD NNNN
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 wildfire. Local standard time, as filed.
A fire near Rincon burned 13 acres of brush before firefighters were able to gain control. The cause of the fire is unknown.
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, September 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: 5474956.