1 wildfire, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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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 6, 7:24 AM PST, 4 hours 31 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN DIEGO CA 824 AM PDT TUE SEP 6 2005 .SYNOPSIS...HIGH PRESSURE ALOFT AND WEAK ONSHORE FLOW WILL BRING FAIR WEATHER WITH WARM DAYS THROUGH WEDNESDAY. COASTAL LATE NIGHT AND EARLY MORNING LOW CLOUDS WILL EXTEND LOCALLY INLAND. A STRONGER TROUGH OF LOW PRESSURE WILL DEVELOP ALONG THE WEST COAST LATER IN THE WEEK INTO EARLY NEXT WEEK. THIS WILL BRING STEADY COOLING AND A DEEPER MARINE LAYER BEGINNING THURSDAY...WITH MORE EXTENSIVE NIGHT AND MORNING LOW CLOUDS AND FOG WEST OF THE MOUNTAINS. && .DISCUSSION...FOR EXTREME SOUTHWESTERN CALIFORNIA INCLUDING ORANGE... SAN DIEGO...WESTERN RIVERSIDE AND SOUTHWESTERN SAN BERNARDINO COUNTIES... OTHER THAN A FEW PATCHES OF DENSE FOG ALONG THE SAN DIEGO COUNTY COAST...SKIES WERE CLEAR THIS MORNING. THE 12Z MIRAMAR SOUNDING SHOWED A STRONG SURFACE BASED INVERSION WITH SLIGHT WARMING IN THE BOUNDARY LAYER OVER YESTERDAY. SURFACE PRESSURE GRADIENTS ARE WEAK...BUT REMAIN ONSHORE. LOOKS LIKE A FLAT UPPER RIDGE WILL DOMINATE THE WEATHER OVER SOCAL FOR THE NEXT DAY OR TWO UNTIL THE TROUGH TO THE N STRENGTHENS ENOUGH TO AFFECT US. THAT SHOULD MEAN A CONTINUATION OF A SHALLOW MARINE LAYER NEAR THE COAST WITH LOCAL DENSE FOG NIGHTS AND MORNINGS. ELSEWHERE...GENERALLY CLEAR AND SEASONALLY WARM. SOME COOLING STILL EXPECTED THURSDAY AND FRIDAY. NO MAJOR CHANGES FOR THE MORNING ZONE FORECASTS...HOWEVER AN UPDATE WILL BE ISSUED TO REMOVE THE MORNING FOG AND INCREASE TEMPS A BIT FOR THE SAN DIEGO COUNTY COAST. && .AVIATION... MARINE LAYER VERY SHALLOW THIS MORNING...LESS THAN 400 FEET. COASTAL AIRPORTS SHOULD BE MOSTLY VFR TODAY AND THIS EVENING WITH MOSTLY CLEAR AND UNLIMITED VISIBILITIES. PATCHES OF FOG ALONG THE COAST WITH TOPS AROUND 400 FEET SHOULD INCREASE DURING THE EVENING AND MOVE LOCALLY ONSHORE OVERNIGHT AND COULD BRING LIFR AND VLIFR CONDITIONS TO THE COASTAL AIRPORTS SUCH AS SAN...CRQ...OKB AND SNA BETWEEN MIDNIGHT AND SUNRISE. FOG SHOULD PULL BACK TO THE COAST BY MID MORNING ON WEDNESDAY. ABOVE THE MARINE LAYER AND INLAND AREAS SHOULD BE VFR WITH CLEAR AND UNRESTRICTED VISIBILITIES. && .SGX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...NONE. && PUBLIC...JAD AVIATION...HORTON 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 TUE SEP 6 2005 CAZ042-043-048-050-055-056-057-058-060-061-062-062300- 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 TUE SEP 6 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR ALL OF EXTREME SOUTHWESTERN CALIFORNIA. .DAY ONE... TODAY THROUGH TONIGHT. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY. 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. MARTIN
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 wildfire. Local standard time, as filed.
A fire burned 150 acres in Rancho Penasquitos and resulted in the evacuation of 200 homes.
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: 5474964.