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 25, 7:25 AM PST, 3 hours 38 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HANFORD CA 825 AM PDT SUN SEP 25 2005 .SHORT TERM...FOR THE CENTRAL CALIFORNIA INTERIOR...SATELLITE IMAGERY SHOWS BANDS OF HIGH CLOUDS STREAMING INTO CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA THIS MORNING. WATER VAPOR LOOP SHOWS A LOW SPINNING OUT NEAR 38/125W. THIS LOW IS PROGGED TO MOVE INITIALLY TO THE SOUTHWEST AS THE ASSOCIATED TROUGH DEEPENS TODAY AND THEN BY MONDAY MORNING THE CENTER SHOULD BE OUT AROUND 34/127W. THIS POSITION WILL TURN THE MID AND UPPER LEVEL FLOW TO THE SOUTHWEST AND IF ANY MOISTURE IS AVAILABLE, BRING THIS MOISTURE INTO THE FORECAST AREA. AT THIS TIME, SATELLITE IMAGERY DOESNT SHOW A BIG FETCH OF AVAILABLE MOISTURE, OUTSIDE OF THE MID AND HIGH LEVEL CLOUDS WHICH ARE WRAPPING INTO THE DEVELOPING LOW. LATEST MODEL DATA SHOWS GOOD AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE 12Z NAM AND THE 06Z GFS THROUGH TONIGHT. BOTH SOLUTIONS KEEP THE CLOSED LOW WELL OFFSHORE AND THE NAM PROJECTED PRECIPITATION AREA STAYS WELL OFFSHORE. WILL HAVE TO TAKE A CLOSE LOOK AT THE OTHER DATA AS IT BECOMES AVAILABLE AND MAKE A DECISION AS TO DELAY OR REMOVE PRECIPITATION CHANCES TONIGHT IN THE SIERRA. AS FOR THE TEMPERATURE FORECAST, THE CURRENT GRIDS SHOW A 3-4 DEGREE WARM UP TODAY OVER SATURDAYS READINGS AND THIS SEEMS ON TRACK. NO UPDATES THIS MORNING. .LONG TERM...FOR TUESDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY...SOME DISAGREEMENTS CONTINUES AMONG THE LATEST MEDIUM RANGE PROGS REGARDING THE EVOLUTION OF THE PATTERN ON TUESDAY NIGHT. WHILE EACH SOLUTION STILL ATTEMPT TO LIFT A TROF OUT OF THE WEST COAST AT THE INITIAL TIME FRAME...THE GFS IS THE ONLY MODEL TO MAINTAIN A CLOSED LOW SOLUTION. WILL STILL FAVOR THE OTHER MODEL SOLUTIONS AND INTRODUCE MORE OF A RIDGE PATTERN OVER THE DISTRICT BY WEDNESDAY. THEREFORE... WILL ALLOW THE POSSIBLE PRECIP TO TERMINATE DURING THE SHORT TERM WITH DRY WEATHER DOMINATING THE LONG TERM. WILL SEE CLOUD COVER DECREASE AS CYCLONIC FLOW IS REPLACED BY INCREASED RIDGING OVER THE WEST COAST. IN ADDITION...MODELS ALSO SUGGEST POSSIBLE WARMING DURING THE LATER PERIODS BEFORE A ZONAL FLOW PATTERN DEVELOP DURING THE WEEKEND. AT THAT POINT...WILL SEE TEMPERATURE REACH TO NEAR SEASONAL NORMAL LEVELS. && .AVIATION...VFR CONDITIONS SHOULD PREVAIL THROUGH AT LEAST 12Z MONDAY. 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/ DUDLEY/MOLINA
1 wildfire. Local standard time, as filed.
The Crane Fire burned 412 acres 3 miles east of Lebec in the Kern County Mountains. Its origin and cost to fight was unreported. No injuries occurred nor were structures lost in battling the fire.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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