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 Aug 8, 1:00 PM PST, 13 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN DIEGO CA 200 PM PDT TUE AUG 8 2006 .SYNOPSIS... MOIST SOUTHEAST FLOW WILL CONTINUE TO BRING CLOUDS TO THE MOUNTAINS AND DESERTS WITH AN INCREASING THREAT OF THUNDERSTORMS WEDNESDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. OVER THE COAST AND VALLEYS...WARMER TEMPERATURES ARE EXPECTED TODAY AND WEDNESDAY WITH LESS NIGHT AND MORNING LOW CLOUDS. LOW CLOUDS SHOULD INCREASE FROM THURSDAY ON AS A COASTAL EDDY DEVELOPS AND WEAK LOW PRESSURE ALOFT APPROACHES THE WEST COAST. && .DISCUSSION...FOR EXTREME SOUTHWESTERN CALIFORNIA INCLUDING ORANGE... SAN DIEGO...WESTERN RIVERSIDE AND SOUTHWESTERN SAN BERNARDINO COUNTIES... REVIEW OF 12Z AND 18Z MODEL RUNS INDICATES THAT ON WEDNESDAY THE AREA WILL STILL BE UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF THE SUBSIDENCE ALOFT BUT AM NOT CERTAIN IS WILL STILL BE STRONG ENOUGH TO COMPLETELY SUPPRESS CONVECTION SO SIS NOT REMOVE MENTION OF THUNDERSTORMS FOR THAT DAY...HOWEVER ALL INDICATIONS ARE THAT THURSDAY WILL BE THE MOST LIKELY DAY OF THE TWO. CURRENTLY OUR AND OUR NEIGHBORING OFFICES GRIDS THOUGH THEY AGREE...DO NOT DIFFERENTIATE BETWEEN THE TWO DAYS AND THESE WILL NEED TO BE ADJUSTED IF SIMILAR CONCLUSIONS AND CONSENSUS ARE/CAN BE REACHED. REGARDLESS IF THUNDERSTORMS DO DEVELOP...THE LOW LEVELS REMAIN FAIRLY DRY...SO MAIN THREAT FROM THUNDERSTORMS WOULD BE DRY LIGHTNING AND GUSTY WINDS...ESPECIALLY OVER THE DESERTS AND LOWER SLOPES. && .AVIATION...TAFS AND TWEB ADEQUATELY REFLECT EXPECTED CONDITIONS. SEE TAFS LAXTAFSAN...LAXTAFCRQ...LAXTAFSNA...LAXTAFONT... LAXTAFPSP...LAXTAFTRM...AND TWEB LAXTWB432 FOR MORE DETAILED INFORMATION. AVIATION DISCUSSION NOT UPDATED FOR AMENDED TAFS. VFR CONDITIONS WILL PREVAIL INTO TOMORROW. LITTLE OR NO MARINE LAYER AGAIN TONIGHT WITH SCT MARINE LAYER STRATUS AT ABOUT 1000 FEET NEAR THE COAST. THE PATCHY SHALLOW FOG WILL LIKELY RETURN TOMORROW MORNING. ONLY VERY SMALL CHANCES OF DEEP CONVECTION OVER THE MOUNTAINS TOMORROW AFTERNOON. && .SGX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... CA...NONE. PZ...NONE. && PUBLIC...BALFOUR AVIATION/MARINE...GONSALVES NWS ON THE WEB AT WEATHER.GOV/SANDIEGO
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN DIEGO CA 545 AM PDT TUE AUG 8 2006 CAZ055-056-058-060-061-062-082300- SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY MOUNTAINS- RIVERSIDE COUNTY MOUNTAINS- SAN DIEGO COUNTY MOUNTAINS- APPLE AND LUCERNE VALLEYS- COACHELLA VALLEY- SAN DIEGO COUNTY DESERTS- 545 AM PDT TUE AUG 8 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR MOUNTAINS AND DESERTS OF EXTREME SOUTHWESTERN CALIFORNIA. .DAY ONE... TODAY AND TONIGHT. SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH DRY LIGHTNING IN THE MOUNTAINS AND DESERTS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY. FOR WEDNESDAY THROUGH FRIDAY...SLIGHT CHANCE OF AFTERNOON AND EVENING THUNDERSTORMS IN THE MOUNTAINS AND DESERTS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SKYWARN WEATHER SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT REQUESTED FOR THIS AREA... HOWEVER WEATHER SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER CONDITIONS. MARTIN
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 wildfire. Local standard time, as filed.
The Golf Fire burned 800 acres of brush near San Jacinto. No structures were burned and no injuries were reported.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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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: 5532729.