Intense heat settled over the mountain areas of San Benito County - with high temperatures soaring to as high as 115 degrees one day. Temperatures were over 100 for at least 15 consecutive days in mid/late July, and low temperatures were unusually elevated - holding mainly in the mid 60s.
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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 episode as NWS MTR wrote it up.
Intense heat settled over the mountain areas of San Benito County - with high temperatures soaring to as high as 115 degrees one day. Temperatures were over 100 for at least 15 consecutive days in mid/late July, and low temperatures were unusually elevated - holding mainly in the mid 60s.
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 Francisco Bay Area, CA wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 22, 2:00 PM PST, 0 minutes earlier.
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</html>HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN FRANCISCO CA 600 AM PDT SAT JUL 22 2006 CAZ006-505-508-509-512-514-515-517-231300- BIG SUR COAST-SANTA LUCIA MOUNTAINS AND LOS PADRES NATIONAL FOREST- SAN FRANCISCO- COASTAL NORTH BAY INCLUDING POINT REYES NATIONAL SEASHORE- SAN FRANCISCO BAY SHORELINE-SAN FRANCISCO PENINSULA COAST- SANTA CRUZ MOUNTAINS- MONTEREY BAY/NORTHERN SALINAS VALLEY/HOLLISTER VALLEY AND CARMEL VALLEY- 600 AM PDT SAT JUL 22 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE COASTAL AREAS OF THE SAN FRANCISCO BAY AND MONTEREY BAY AREAS...SANTA CRUZ MOUNTAINS AND THE SANTA LUCIA MOUNTAINS .DAY ONE...SATURDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED. CAZ506-507-510-511-513-516-518-231300- SOUTHERN SALINAS VALLEY/ARROYO SECO AND LAKE SAN ANTONIO- MOUNTAINS OF SAN BENITO COUNTY AND INTERIOR MONTEREY COUNTY INCLUDING PINNACLES NATIONAL MONUMENT-NORTH BAY INTERIOR VALLEYS- NORTH BAY MOUNTAINS-EAST BAY INTERIOR VALLEYS- EAST BAY HILLS AND THE DIABLO RANGE- SANTA CLARA VALLEY INCLUDING SAN JOSE- 600 AM PDT SAT JUL 22 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE NORTH AND EAST BAY VALLEYS AND HILLS...SANTA CLARA VALLEY...SOUTHERN SALINAS VALLEY AND THE MOUNTAINS OF SAN BENITO AND INTERIOR MONTEREY COUNTY .DAY ONE...SATURDAY VERY HOT WEATHER IS EXPECTED TODAY WITH HEAT INDICES OF 106 TO 112. * HEAT ADVISORY......SEE WWUS76 KMTR - NPWMTR FOR DETAILS * .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY HOT TEMPERATURES WILL CONTINUE OVER THE WEEKEND WITH HEAT INDICES REACHING BETWEEN 105 AND 110 DEGREES. A HEAT ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT SUNDAY. * HEAT ADVISORY......SEE WWUS76 KMTR - NPWMTR FOR DETAILS * OTHERWISE NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... WEATHER SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER CONDITIONS ACCORDING TO STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURES. W PI
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 heat. Local standard time, as filed.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in California in 2006Every state in 2006This day in weather historyWarnings in California, July 2006
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 2026-10-01. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5525795.