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 7, 8:15 PM PST, 2 hours 45 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY - HANFORD CA 915 PM PDT FRI JUL 7 2006 .UPDATE...SKIES ARE CLEAR ACROSS THE REGION THIS EVE. UPPER RIDGE WILL CONT TO STRENGTHEN TONITE AND SAT...AND MODELS FCST THICKNESS INCREASES OF 50-60 METERS ALONG WITH 4 DEGS/C WARMING AT H85. THUS...TEMPS WHICH WERE RIGHT AT AVERAGE TODAY...WILL CLIMB EVEN MORE SAT. CURRENT FCST TRENDS RIGHT ON AND NO UPDATE NEEDED THIS EVE. .PREVIOUS DISCUSSION...ISSUED 230 PM PDT... SHORT TERM...CLEAR SKIES ACROSS THE AREA WITH TEMPERATURES IN THE VALLEY 1-4 DEGREES HIGHER THAN 24 HOURS AGO. WATER VAPOR IMAGES SHOW AN UPPER SHORT WAVE IN W AZ WITH THE AXIS OF MONSOON MOISTURE REMAINING ALONG AND EAST THE COLORADO RIVER. SOME STORMS HAVE DEVELOPED TOWARDS E SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY. EXPECT THIS ACTIVITY TO REMAIN EAST OF CENTRAL CALIFORNIA AS MODELS INDICATED THE UPPER VORT MAX PUSHING N TOWARDS UT AND CO. OTHERWISE A HIGH PRESSURE RIDGE WILL RESULT IN DRY AND WARM WEEKEND. THERE MAY BE MORE CUMULUS BUILDUPS OVER THE SIERRA SUNDAY AS GFS PROGS MID LEVEL MOISTURE EDGING W TOWARDS THE SIERRA. AN UPPER LEVEL SHORT WAVE WILL MOVE THROUGH THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST TURNING THE UPPER FLOW ONSHORE. GFS SHOWS A COUPLE OF WEAK UPPER DISTURBANCE LEAVING A BAGGY TROUGH ALONG COASTAL CALIFORNIA MONDAY. WILL ADVERTISE A LITTLE COOLING MONDAY AS FLOW TURNS ONSHORE. GFS PROGS COOLER TEMPERATURES ALONG COASTAL INLAND VALLEYS AND STRONGER ONSHORE GRADS MAY BRING SOME OF THE COOLER MARINE AIR INTO THE SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY. .LONG TERM...MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY... PATTERN WILL BEGIN TO BECOME MORE AMPLIFIED IN THE EARLY PART OF NEXT WEEK AS A STRONG TROUGH OF LOW PRESSURE WILL APPROACH THE AREA ON TUESDAY AND BRING IN HEIGHT FALLS THROUGH THURSDAY. HEIGHTS ARE EXPECTED TO BE LOW ENOUGH FOR THE HIGHS DURING MOST OF NEXT WEEK TO BE BELOW NORMAL AS THE TROUGH MOVES THROUGH. THE DIFFERENCES IN THE MODELS REALLY START TO SHOW UP ROUND THURSDAY AND INTO FRIDAY AS THE GFS HOLD THE TROUGH IN OVER THE AREA AND THE ECMWF IS MORE PROGRESSIVE. AT THIS TIME WE WILL GO WITH A CLIMATOLOGY FORECAST FOR DAY 7 SINCE THERE IS LITTLE CONFIDENCE IN THE MODELS. THE INCREASED SW FLOW WILL ALLOW FOR SOME CLOUDS ACROSS THE FORECAST AREA AND ESPECIALLY ALONG THE SIERRAS. NO SHOWERS OR THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED DUE TO LIMITED MOISTURE AND VERY LITTLE IN THE WAY OF VERTICAL LIFT. WIND PROFILES REMAIN RELATIVELY WEAK THROUGH THE BOUNDARY LAYER. && .AVIATION...VFR CONDITIONS WILL PREVAIL THROUGH 00Z SATURDAY. FOR SPECIFIC DETAILS...PLEASE REFER TO TAFS FOR KMCE...KFAT AND KBFL. && .HNX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NONE. && MV/JDB
1 wildfire. Local standard time, as filed.
The Doctor Fire was a human caused fire located 14 miles southeast of Porterville in the Tule Indian Reservation. It burned 258 acres before containment but no injuries occurred nor were structures lost. The cost to fight the blaze was unknown.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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