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 Jul 19, 1:50 PM PST, 4 hours 10 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY - HANFORD CA 250 PM PDT WED JUL 19 2006 .SHORT TERM...THINGS ARE HEATING UP AGAIN ACROSS THE CENTRAL CALIFORNIA INTERIOR THIS AFTERNOON. MOST LOCATIONS IN THE CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN VALLEY HAVE ALREADY REACHED THE CENTURY MARK AND WILL CONTINUE TO RISE ANOTHER 5 DEGF OR SO. SATELLITE REVEALS SKIES ARE GENERALLY CLEAR OVER THE SJ VALLEY AND THE KERN DESERTS. BUT CUMULUS HAVE ERUPTED ACROSS MUCH OF THE SOUTHERN SIERRA NEVADA WITH A FEW ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS SO FAR. STRONGEST STORM IS CURRENTLY LOCATED JUST ALONG THE FRESNO-TULARE COUNTY BORDER NEAR KINGS CANYON. STORMS ARE TAKING A NORTHERLY TRAJECTORY WHICH...UNLIKE YESTERDAY...WILL KEEP CLOUDS AND ANY CHANCE OF SPRINKLES AWAY FROM THE VALLEY. HAVE EVEN SEEN SOME CU FIRING OVER THE WESTERN SAN EMIGDIO MOUNTAINS WEST OF CUDDY VALLEY BUT NO THUNDER HAS BEEN OBSERVED. WATER VAPOR SHOWS A STEADY FEED OF MOISTURE BEING TRANSPORTED IN WITH THE SOUTHEAST FLOW ALOFT. NO MAJOR CHANGES WITH THIS PATTERN ARE EXPECTED THROUGH THE SHORT TERM. THEREFORE MORE OF THE SAME IS ON TAP WITH CHANCES OF AFTN/EVE THUNDER OVER THE MOUNTAINS AND DESERT THROUGH SATURDAY. ALSO...THE CENTER OF THE UPPER LEVEL HIGH WILL RETROGRADE OVER THE WEST THE NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS RESULTING IN A SLIGHT UPTICK TO TEMPERATURES. HIGHS SATURDAY SHOULD APPROACH RECORD TERRITORY...BUT WILL HOLD FORECASTS FOR FRESNO AND BAKERSFIELD JUST BELOW RECORD MARKS. .LONG TERM...SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY...MEDIUM RANGE MODELS MAINTAIN VERY STRONG HIGH PRESSURE OVER THE WEST THROUGH THE EXTENDED PERIOD. THIS WILL KEEP DAYTIME TEMPS ABOVE THE CENTURY MARK OVER VALLEY AND DESERT REGIONS AND MUCH ABOVE NORMAL IN THE MOUNTAINS. WITH THE 500MB HIGH CENTER MEANDERING BETWEEN EASTERN NEVADA AND UTAH...A PERSISTENT SOUTH TO SOUTHEAST FLOW WILL CONTINUE TO ADVECT MID LEVEL MOISTURE OVER THE SIERRA NEVADA FOR DAILY AFTERNOON AND EVENING THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH AT LEAST SUNDAY. EXPANSION OF THE HIGH FARTHER WEST DURING THE FIRST PART OF NEXT WEEK IS EXPECTED TO SUPPRESS CONVECTION SOMEWHAT MONDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY FOR A DIMINISHING THREAT OF THUNDERSTORMS. GFS IS HINTING TOWARDS A WEAK TROF APPROACHING THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST ON TUESDAY REACHING THE COASTLINE WEDNESDAY. BOTH THE ECMWF AND CANADIAN MEDIUM RANGE MODELS MAINTAIN STRONGER HIGH PRESSURE OVER CALIFORNIA EXTENDED NORTH INTO THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST. WILL GO WITH A SLIGHT WEAKENING OF THE STRONG HIGH WITH ONLY A SLIGHT LOWERING OF HOT TEMPS DURING THE END OF THE EXTENDED PERIOD. && .AVIATION...VFR CONDITIONS CAN BE EXPECTED THROUGH 00Z FRIDAY. FOR SPECIFIC DETAILS...PLEASE REFER TO TAFS FOR KMCE...KFAT AND KBFL. && .HNX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...NONE. && DCH/GREISS
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY - HANFORD CA 500 AM PDT WED JUL 19 2006 CAZ098-099-201200- INDIAN WELLS VALLEY-SOUTHEASTERN KERN COUNTY DESERT- 500 AM PDT WED JUL 19 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL CALIFORNIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED IN THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING EACH DAY THROUGH THE PERIOD. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... WEATHER SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER CONDITIONS TO THE SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE. CAZ089>097-201200- WEST CENTRAL SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY-EAST CENTRAL SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY- SOUTHWESTERN SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY-SOUTHEASTERN SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY- MARIPOSA MADERA AND FRESNO COUNTY FOOTHILLS-TULARE COUNTY FOOTHILLS- KERN COUNTY MOUNTAINS-SIERRA NEVADA FROM YOSEMITE TO KINGS CANYON- TULARE COUNTY MOUNTAINS- 500 AM PDT WED JUL 19 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL CALIFORNIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED. BINGHAM
1 wildfire. Local standard time, as filed.
A fire was lightning initiated in the evening of the 19th near Gibonney Creek north of Onyx east of Lake Isabella that burned in excess of 100 acres by the 20th. No further information was available.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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