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 Jun 30, 7:24 PM PST, 4 hours 36 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY - HANFORD CA 824 PM PDT FRI JUN 30 2006 .UPDATE... SFC WINDS HAVE BEEN UP ACROSS THE VALLEY TODAY AS GRADIENTS FOR SFO-LAS HAVE BEEN AROUND 8 TO 12 MB. FRESNO HAS REACHED A HIGH OVER 100 DEGREES FOE THE PAST TEN DAYS IN A ROW...THIS MAY BE IN JEPORDY ON SATURDAY AS THE CONCERN FOR A MARINE PUSH ACROSS THE NRN PORTION OF THE CWA INTO MERCED AND TO AROUND FRESNO FOR A BIT OF A COOL DOWN. MEAN UPPER FLOW REMAINS SW AS WEAK EMBEDDED DISTURBANCES ARE PUSHING ACROSS THE CENTRAL AND NRN PORTION OF CA. THIS COULD BE ENOUGH TO ALLOW THE MARINE LAYER TO PENETRATE AS FAR INLAND AS IT IS. CU DEVELOPMENT ALONG THE RIDGES HAVE BEEN VERY WEAK TODAY WITH NO SHOWERS SHOWING UP ON THE 88D EXCEPT EAST OF THE CREST. THE SAME IS EXPECTED FOR TOMORROW AS PLENTY OF DRY AIR WILL KEEP CU DEVELOPMENT DOWN. THE WRF/NAM ARE FORECASTING THE GRADIENTS TO INCREASE AGAIN FOR TOMORROW EVENING AND WINDS REMAINING UP OVERNIGHT ACROSS THE VALLEY TONIGHT. NO BIG CHANGES IN THE FORECAST FOR TOMORROW. HAVE TWEAKED THE MAX TEMP GRIDS A BIT LOWER IN THE NORTH NEAR MERCED AND WILL MAKE SOME ADJUSTMENTS TO THE WINDS TONIGHT. && .PREV DISCUSSION... (ISSUED 223 PM PDT FRI JUN 30 2006) SHORT TERM...HIGH PRESSURE OVER THE 4-CORNERS AND EXTENDED TO OFF THE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA COAST WILL KEEP CENTRAL CALIFORNIA IN A WEAK BUT DRY SOUTH-SOUTHWESTERLY FLOW ALOFT THE NEXT FEW DAYS. NO THUNDERSTORM DEVELOP SO FAR TODAY AND NOTHING TO INDICATE ANY SIGNIFICANT DEVELOPMENT OVER THE SIERRA IN THE NEXT FEW HOURS. CONVECTIVE PARAMETERS NOT LOOKING FAVORABLE FOR ANY DEVELOPMENT THROUGH THE WEEKEND EITHER SO WILL CONTINUE WITH A DRY FORECAST. SOME SMALL RISES IN HEIGHTS AND H85 TEMPS OVER THE WEEKEND WITH A VERY SLOW RISE IN MAX TEMPS MOST AREAS THROUGH MONDAY. THE EXCEPTION BEING THE SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY SATURDAY. MODELS CONTINUE TO SHOW SOME INCREASE IN ONSHORE GRADIENTS TONITE AND SATURDAY. WITH THE MARINE LAYER NEAR 1800 FEET...THIS COULD BRING A SHALLOW MARINE PUSH THRU THE DELTA AND AFFECT NORTHERN PORTIONS OF THE VALLEY AND RESULTING IN SLIGHTLY LOWER TEMPS SATURDAY. GRADIENTS WILL RELAX SUNDAY AND SHOULD END ANY MARINE INTRUSION. LONG TERM...MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY...MODELS AGREE WITH A CONTINUATION OF THE STRONG UPPER RIDGE OVER THE WEST THROUGH THE PERIOD. SOME SUGGESTION MONSOON MOISTURE MAY GET PULLED NORTH NEAR OUR DESERT REGION ON WEDNESDAY. HOWEVER...PREVAILING H7 FLOW NEVER REALLY BECOMES SOUTHEAST AND MOISTURE PLUME PRIMARILY STAYS EAST OF THE DISTRICT. SO WILL HOLD OFF ON INTRODUCING ANY MENTION OF THUNDER AT THIS TIME. TEMPERATURES WILL CONTINUE TO RUN ABOVE NORMAL IN THE SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY WITH MOST LOCALES HOVERING AROUND THE CENTURY MARK THROUGH MIDWEEK. GFS INDICATES SHORT WAVE ENERGY NEARING THE CENTRAL CA COAST LATER IN THE WEEK. BUT OTHER MODELS ARE FARTHER NORTH WITH IMPULSE. DUE TO SYNOPTIC EFFECTS HAVE A VERY SLIGHT DOWNWARD TREND IN TEMPS FOR THE LATTER HALF OF THE WEEK. ALSO COOLED THE CENTRAL VALLEY DOWN A TAD MORE AS INCREASING ONSHORE FLOW COULD PUSH SOME MARINE AIR THROUGH THE DELTA. && AVIATION...VFR CONDITIONS CAN EXPECTED ACROSS THE CENTRAL CA INTERIOR THROUGH 00Z SUNDAY. FOR SPECIFIC DETAILS...PLEASE REFER TO TAFS FOR KMCE...KFAT AND KBFL. && HNX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...NONE. && JDB/MV
1 wildfire. Local standard time, as filed.
The Smith Fire 6 miles southeast of Onyx, east of Lake Isabella in the Kern County Mountains, was lightning initiated on June 27th and burned approximately 225 acres before being contained on July 2nd. The cost to fight the Smith Fire was $1.563M.
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: 5517680.