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 Sep 20, 2:13 PM PST, 2 hours 13 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HANFORD CA 313 PM PDT TUE SEP 20 2005 .SHORT TERM FOR THE CENTRAL CALIFORNIA INTERIOR...PRECIPITATION BAND ACROSS THE DISTRICT HAS BEEN EDGING EASTWARD DURING THE DAY AND IS NOW MAINLY AFFECTING THE EASTERN KERN COUNTY DESERTS. THE UPPER LOW IS BEGINNING TO MOVE INLAND ALONG THE CENTRAL COAST AND ISOLATED/SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE BEGINNING TO ERUPT IN THE DESTABILIZING AIRMASS OVER THE VALLEY. SLIGHT CHANCES FOR CONVECTION WILL CONTINUE TONIGHT AS THE LOW TRACKS ACROSS THE AREA...WITH THE BEST CHANCES IN THE MOUNTAINS. DRIER AND SLIGHTLY WARMER WEATHER IS EXPECTED WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY...WITH TEMPERATURES RUNNING RIGHT AROUND SEASONAL NORMS...IN GENERALLY ZONAL FLOW BEHIND THE DEPARTING SYSTEM. THE NEXT APPROACHING UPPER TROUGH WILL DROP INTO THE NORTHWEST US FRIDAY...COOLING TEMPERATURES BY A FEW DEGREES. .LONG TERM...FOR FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY...MEDIUM RANGE MODELS ARE IN GOOD AGREEMENT IN FORMING A CLOSED LOW OVER NORTHERN CALIFORNIA ON FRIDAY NIGHT AND THEN HAVING THE LOW SLOWLY MOVING INTO THE GREAT BASIN ON SUNDAY. A TROUGH OF LOW PRESSURE IS THEN PROGGED BY BOTH THE GFS AND ECMWF TO REMAIN OVER THE REGION ON MONDAY. THIS TROUGH IS PROGGED TO SHIFT EAST OF THE AREA ON TUESDAY WITH RIDGING BECOMING REESTABLISHED PER THE GFS MODEL. IN THIS PATTERN, MAY SEE SOME SHOWERS IN THE SIERRA ON SATURDAY AND SUNDAY, BUT THE MAIN AFFECT WILL BE BELOW NORMAL TEMPERATURES. THE MEX GUIDANCE FROM THE GFS MODES HAS LOTS OF MID AND UPPER 70S ON SATURDAY AND SUNDAY WITH WARMING BY TUESDAY. && .AVIATION...VFR CONDITIONS SHOULD PREVAIL THROUGH AT LEAST 18Z WEDNESDAY...ALTHOUGH A CUTOFF LOW ALONG THE COAST WILL PROVIDE INCREASING AMOUNTS OF MID LEVEL CLOUDS THROUGH THE EVENING AND INTO TONIGHT. SPECIFIC DETAILS CAN BE FOUND IN THE TAFS FOR KMCE...KFAT AND KBFL. && .HNX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...NONE. && WWW.WEATHER.GOV/HANFORD /USE ALL LOWER CASE/ JEB/DUDLEY
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...COR NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY - HANFORD CA 500 AM PDT TUE SEP 20 2005 CAZ089>099-211200- 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- KERN COUNTY MOUNTAINS-SIERRA NEVADA FROM YOSEMITE TO KINGS CANYON- TULARE COUNTY MOUNTAINS-INDIAN WELLS VALLEY- SOUTHEASTERN KERN COUNTY DESERT- 500 AM PDT TUE SEP 20 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL CALIFORNIA INTERIOR. .DAY ONE...TODAY. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL OCCUR ACROSS THE REGION THROUGH THIS EVENING. THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE FAIRLY FAST MOVING SO NO A LOT OF RAINFALL IS EXPECTED. HOWEVER DUE TO THE FAST MOVEMENT...LOCALLY GUSTY WINDS WILL BE POSSIBLE. THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL ALSO PRODUCE DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. THE LOW PRESSURE AREA RESPONSIBLE FOR THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE EAST DURING THE NIGHT TONIGHT...ENDING THE THUNDERSTORM THREAT. .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 NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE. BINGHAM
1 wildfire. Local standard time, as filed.
The La Paloma Fire was lightning initiated during the early evening of the 20th. It burned 700 acres near Hornitos or about 17 miles west of Mariposa in the Southern Sierra Nevada foothills. There were no injuries nor structures lost from the fire.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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