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 25, 7:50 PM PST, 3 hours 10 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY - HANFORD CA 850 PM PDT TUE JUL 25 2006 .SHORT TERM...IT WAS ANOTHER DAY OF RECORD HEAT ACROSS OUR AREA WITH MAX TEMPS TODAY EXCEEDING 110 DEG F ACROSS MOST OF THE CENTRAL ANDS SOUTH SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY AND ACROSS THE KERN DESERTS AND ABOVE 100 DEG F OVER THE SOUTHERN SIERRA NEVADA FOOTHILLS AND THE KERN RIVER VALLEY. KFAT (FRESNO) REACHED 113 DEG F FOR THE THIRD CONSECUTIVE DAY AND HAS REACHED 109 DEG F OR HIGHER FOR SIX STRAIGHT DAYS. THE ONE SIGNIFICANT CHANGE FROM THE PAST FEW DAYS WAS THAT THERE WAS NOT NEARLY AS MUCH AERIAL COVERAGE WITH TODAY/S THUNDERSTORMS GENERALLY CONFINED TO THE HIGHER ELEVATIONS OF THE SOUTHERN SIERRA NEVADA AND RAINFALL AMOUNTS GENERALLY LIGHT. ONE NOTICEABLE EXCEPTION WAS THE 0.66 INCHES RECEIVED AT THE SUGARLOAF RAWS IN TULARE COUNTY (7950 FEET). 00Z NGM/WRF/GFS INDICATING LITTLE CHANGE IN THE OVERALL PATTERN ACROSS CENTRAL CA THROUGH THURSDAY WITH THE LARGE UPPER RIDGE CONTINUING TO DOMINATE OVER OUR AREA AS IT SLOWLY RETROGRADES WESTWARD OVER THE NEXT TWO DAYS. THIS WILL RESULT IN THE FLOW ALOFT BECOMING RATHER LIGHT AND WILL REDUCE THE AMOUNT OF MONSOONAL TROPICAL MOISTURE THAT WILL BE ADVECTED INTO OUR CWFA. WITH THE HOT AIRMASS PERSISTING HOWEVER...THE ATMOSPHERE WILL BE UNSTABLE ENOUGH IN THE AFTERNOON FOR ISOLATED CONVECTION OVER THE SOUTHERN SIERRA NEVADA. TEMPERATURES HOWEVER...WILL REMAIN QUITE HOT AND MUGGY WITH ANOTHER DAY OF NEAR RECORD HEAT EXPECTED FOR THE CENTRAL AND SOUTH SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY ON WEDNESDAY. AM NOT PLANNING ANY UPDATES THIS EVENING SINCE THE FORECAST FOR TONIGHT AND WEDNESDAY LOOKS TO BE ON TARGET. WILL REFRESH THE ONGOING HEAT ADVISORY BY 1000 PM THIS EVENING. 00Z PROGS ARE CONTINUING TO INDICATE LOWERING HEIGHTS AND THICKNESSES THURSDAY NIGHT AND FRIDAY ALONG WITH STRENGTHENING ONSHORE P-GRADS. THIS WILL ALLOW FOR A WELL ANTICIPATED COOLING TREND TO BEGIN ACROSS OUR AREA ALTHOUGH TEMPERATURES WILL REMAIN ABOVE NORMAL. .LONG TERM...FROM PREVIOUS DISCUSSION...FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY...THE MEDIUM-RANGE MODELS ARE IN GOOD AGREEMENT FRIDAY NIGHT WITH AN UPPER-LEVEL LOWER OVER THE QUEEN CHARLOTTE ISLANDS AND A TROUGH ALONG 130W. HOWEVER...DIFFERENCES DEVELOP AMONG THE MODELS SATURDAY AS THE GFS DROPS THE LOW ALONG THE PACIFIC COAST OF VANCOUVER ISLAND...AND THE OTHER MODELS HOLD THE LOW NEARLY STATIONARY. BY SUNDAY...THE GFS IS MORE PROGRESSIVE THAN THE OTHER MODELS...BUT ALSO IS SHALLOWER WITH THE TROUGH...BY AS MUCH AS 60 METERS AT 500 MB. WITH A FASTER TROUGH...THE GFS PUSHES THE UPPER-LEVEL RIDGE A BIT FURTHER EAST THAN THE ECMWF OR UKMET...AND CONSEQUENTLY BRINGS A PUSH OF MID-LEVEL MOISTURE INTO THE CENTRAL CALIFORNIA INTERIOR BY 00Z MONDAY. HAVE THEREFORE INTRODUCED ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE MOUNTAINS AND DESERTS FOR SUNDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING. WITH THE ARRIVAL OF THE UPPER-LEVEL TROUGH...500-MB HEIGHTS OVER CENTRAL CALIFORNIA WILL LOWER AND 850-MB TEMPERATURES ACROSS THE REGION ARE FORECAST TO COOL INTO THE LOWER 20S C. AS A RESULT... TEMPERATURES FOR THE CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY ARE FORECAST TO DROP TO AROUND 100 OVER THE WEEKEND...AND LEVEL OFF IN THE MID TO UPPER 90S FOR THE FIRST PART OF NEXT WEEK. && .AVIATION...ISOLATED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE OVER THE MOUNTAINS AND DESERTS THROUGH 06Z WEDNESDAY...THEN REDEVELOP AGAIN WEDNESDAY DURING THE EARLY AFTERNOON. OTHERWISE...VFR CONDITIONS WILL PREVAIL THROUGH 00Z THURSDAY. FOR SPECIFIC DETAILS...PLEASE REFER TO TAFS FOR KMCE...KFAT...AND KBFL. && .HNX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT THROUGH 9 PM PDT WEDNESDAY FOR THE CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY AND ADJACENT FOOTHILLS. && DS/SANGER
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY - HANFORD CA 1038 PM PDT TUE JUL 25 2006 CAZ089>094-261300- 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- 1038 PM PDT TUE JUL 25 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY AND THE ADJACENT SIERRA FOOTHILLS. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY A HEAT ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM PDT WEDNESDAY EVENING. SEE SFONPWHNX /WWUS76 HNX/ FOR DETAILS. HEAT INDICES WILL RANGE FROM 105 TO 115 IN MANY AREAS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... WEATHER SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER CONDITIONS TO THE SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE. CAZ098-099-261300- INDIAN WELLS VALLEY-SOUTHEASTERN KERN COUNTY DESERT- 1038 PM PDT TUE JUL 25 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE KERN COUNTY DESERT. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED IN THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING THROUGH WEDNESDAY. OTHERWISE...NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... WEATHER SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER CONDITIONS TO THE SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE. DS
1 wildfire. Local standard time, as filed.
The Broder-Beck Fire was lightning initiated the night of July 25th/morning of the 26th. The fire was located in the Sequoia National Forest about 48 miles northeast of Porterville. The fire became a resource management burn into August.
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 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5523471.