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 Aug 21, 1:05 PM PST, 55 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY - HANFORD CA 205 PM PDT MON AUG 21 2006 .SHORT TERM...FOR THE CENTRAL CALIFORNIA INTERIOR...SATELLITE LOOPS SHOW THE UPPER-LEVEL TROUGH CONTINUING TO LIFT THROUGH NORTHERN CALIFORNIA. THE MARINE LAYER IS LOWERING /AT 1734Z THE DEPTH AT FORT ORD WAS 2200 FEET/ AS HIGH PRESSURE ALOFT BEGINS TO BUILD INTO CALIFORNIA FROM THE DESERT SOUTHWEST. THIS UPPER-LEVEL RIDGE WILL BRING ABOUT 6-8 DEGREES WARMING TO THE CENTRAL CALIFORNIA INTERIOR TUESDAY. THE FORECAST PROBLEM FOR THIS AFTERNOON IS AN UPPER-LEVEL TROUGH DROPPING ALONG 142W OUT OF THE GULF OF ALASKA. THE 12Z MODELS ARE IN GOOD AGREEMENT WITH THE TROUGH FORECAST TO PUSH INTO THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST WEDNESDAY...HOLDING THE RIDGE IN CHECK...THEN WEAKENING THE RIDGE A BIT THURSDAY. LITTLE CHANGE IS FORECAST IN 850-MB TEMPERATURES OR 1000-500-MB THICKNESSES FROM TUESDAY TO WEDNESDAY... SO HAVE GONE WITH PERSISTENCE TEMPERATURES. THE MAIN UNCERTAINTY IS THE MOISTURE FROM FORMER HURRICANE HECTOR. MOISTURE FROM HECTOR COULD BECOME ENTRAINED IN THE FLOW AROUND THE NEXT TROUGH...AND BE CARRIED INTO THE SOUTHERN HALF OF THE STATE. THE NAM-12/WRF HAS MID-LEVEL MOISTURE SPREADING INTO KERN COUNTY WEDNESDAY...SO HAVE BUMPED UP THE CLOUDS OVER THE MOUNTAINS AND DESERTS TO PARTLY CLOUDY. HAVE NOT INTRODUCED POPS AT THIS TIME... BUT WITH A WARM...MOIST AIRMASS...THE POTENTIAL WILL EXIST FOR SOME CONVECTIVE ACTIVITY. 500-MB HEIGHTS LOWER OVER CALIFORNIA THURSDAY AS THE TROUGH MOVES INTO THE INTERMOUNTAIN WEST. THE 5880-METER LINE DROPS FROM THE SACRAMENTO DELTA AT 00Z THURSDAY TO NEAR HANFORD BY 00Z FRIDAY... AND THE 12Z GFS COOLS 850-MB TEMPERATURES OVER THE HANFORD WARNING/ FORECAST AREA BY 2-3 C. ALTHOUGH LITTLE CHANGE IS FORECAST IN 1000- 500-MB THICKNESSES...HAVE FOLLOWED THE GFS MEX EXTENDED GUIDANCE AND GONE WITH A FEW DEGREES COOLING ACROSS THE REGION...IN LINE WITH 500-MB HEIGHT AND 850-MB TEMPERATURE FALLS. .LONG TERM...FOR THURSDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY...MEDIUM RANGE PROGS AGREE IN AMPLIFYING THE UPPER RIDGE OFF THE WEST COAST AS A SHORTWAVE TROUGH MOVES OUT OF THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST INTO THE HIGH PLAINS ON FRIDAY. HAVE CONTINUED SOME AFTERNOON/EVENING CLOUD COVER OVER THE SIERRA NEVADA INTO SATURDAY...BUT NO THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY. AFTERWARDS...THE RIDGE GRADUALLY FLATTENS SUNDAY THROUGH MONDAY FOR A MORE SOUTHWESTERLY FLOW ALOFT AND GENERALLY CLEAR SKIES. TEMPERATURES ARE EXPECTED TO TREND DOWNWARD TO NEAR SEASONAL NORMALS BY SUNDAY. && .AVIATION...VFR CONDITIONS WILL PREVAIL THROUGH 00Z WEDNESDAY. FOR SPECIFIC DETAILS...PLEASE REFER TO TAFS FOR KMCE...KFAT AND KBFL. && .HNX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NONE. && SANGER/MENDENHALL
1 wildfire. Local standard time, as filed.
The Boundary Fire located 1.5 miles northwest of El Capitan near Yosemite Village was a human caused fire that burned 536 acres. The fire cost $2.1 million to fight but no structures were lost nor did any casualties occur.
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