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 9, 1:30 PM PST, 2 hours 8 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY - HANFORD CA 230 PM PDT SUN JUL 9 2006 .SHORT TERM...FOR THE CENTRAL CALIFORNIA INTERIOR...ISOLATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOPED OVER THE HIGHER TERRAIN PRETTY MUCH AS EXPECTED TODAY. THE ONSET CAME A LITTLE EARLIER THAN ANTICIPATED THOUGH, WITH KHNX 88-D PICKING UP ON A NICELY ORGANIZED CELL NEAR THE SIERRA CREST JUST BEFORE 11 AM. STEERING CURRENTS ALOFT ARE VERY LIGHT...AND SEVERAL WEAK UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCES SWINGING ACROSS THE REGION ARE PROVIDING SOME UNIQUE CHALLENGES IN TRYING TO NAIL DOWN A DEFINITIVE STORM MOTION. A VORT MAX MOVING THROUGH NEVADA IS PLACING THE NORTHERN CWA UNDER A WEAK NORTHWESTERLY FLOW, WHILE STORMS OVER THE SOUTHERN CWA ARE NEARLY STATIONARY AS ANOTHER UPPER LEVEL WAVE MOVES THROUGH SOCAL. THE STRONGEST CELLS, CURRENTLY OVER THE TEHACHAPIS AS OF 2 PM, REQUIRE EXTRA ATTENTION DUE TO THE SLOW MOVING NATURE OF THE STORMS. HEAVY DOWNPOURS COULD PRODUCED LOCALIZED FLOODING ACROSS THE AREA. MORE SLOW MOVING T-STORMS ARE BEGINNING TO DEVELOP OVER THE MOJAVE DESERT AS WELL, AND THESE WILL REQUIRE A CLOSE WATCH ALSO. OTHERWISE, AS FAR AS TEMPERATURES GO THEY ARE ON TRACK TO REACH FORECAST LEVELS AROUND 100-105 DEGREES IN THE SJV AND KERN DESERT TODAY. FORTUNATELY HUMIDITY LEVELS ARE RELATIVELY LOW MAKING IT A DRY HEAT. ATMOSPHERIC CONDITIONS CHANGE LITTLE FOR TOMORROW, HOWEVER WHAT LITTLE CHANGES THAT DO OCCUR WILL BE TO OUR BENEFIT. LOW AND MID LEVEL MOISTURE IS EXPECTED TO DECREASE AS A WEAK BUT DRY WESTERLY FLOW DEVELOPS OVER CENTRAL CA. NO DOUBT IT WILL STILL BE TOASTY, HOWEVER, AFTERNOON CONVECTIVE DEVELOPMENT WILL BE MUCH LESS LIKELY WITH DRIER MID-LEVELS AND MORE STABLE CONDITIONS. STILL EXPECTING SOME AFTERNOON CU DEVELOPMENT OVER THE HIGHER TERRAIN, BUT IT SHOULD TREND MUCH LESS THAN WHAT WEVE SEEN THE PAST 2 DAYS. CANT COMPLETELY RULE OUT A LIGHT SHOWER OR SPRINKLE NEAR THE CREST TOMORROW, BUT FEEL THE CHANCE FOR MEASURABLE PRECIP IS LOW ENOUGH TO NOT MENTION IT IN THE FORECAST. DRY WESTERLY FLOW INCREASES TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY, BRINGING WITH IT A SLIGHT COOLING TREND AS WE MAY SEE SOME MARINE MODIFIED AIR, ALBEIT SHALLOW, SNEAK INTO THE SJV. HIGHER ELEVATIONS WILL SEE A FEW DEGREES COOLING AS WELL AS HEIGHTS AND THICKNESSES NUDGE DOWN A FEW DECAMETERS. CURRENT THINKING MESHES WELL WITH PREVIOUS FORECAST, SO LITTLE CHANGES WERE MADE. .LONG TERM...WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY...MEDIUM RANGE MODELS IN BETTER AGREEMENT AND TRENDING TOWARDS WARM AND DRY CONDITIONS FOR MUCH OF THE EXTENDED. WESTERLIES RETREAT TOWARDS THE PACIFIC NW AND SW CANADA ALLOWING HIGH PRESSURE ALOFT TO EXTEND OVER MUCH OF SOUTHWEST. A WEAK SW FLOW SHOULD PROVIDE A DRY AND STABLE AIRMASS INTO OVER CENTRAL CALIFORNIA THROUGH FRIDAY. PROGS INDICATE THE RIDGE MAY STRENGTHEN FURTHER DURING THE WEEKEND WITH GFS BRINGING SOME MONSOON MOISTURE INTO SE CALIFORNIA. BUT GFS SHOWS LITTLE MID LEVEL MOISTURE REACHING CENTRAL CALIFORNIA. MODELS INDICATE HIGHER 500MB HEIGHTS THAN THIS WEEKEND. SO CONDITIONS MAY BECOME HOT AND DRY FOR NEXT WEEKEND. && .AVIATION...ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE OVER THE MOUNTAINS AS WELL AS THE KERN COUNTY DESERTS UNTIL ABOUT SUNSET. OTHERWISE...VFR CONDITIONS WILL PREVAIL THROUGH 00Z TUESDAY. FOR SPECIFIC DETAILS...PLEASE REFER TO TAFS FOR KMCE...KFAT AND KBFL. && .HNX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...NONE. && MYERS/MV
1 wildfire. Local standard time, as filed.
The Arco Fire burned 698 acres 5 miles north of Lebec in the Kern County Mountains. The cause of the fire was unknown but there were no injuries and no structures lost. The cost to fight the fire was unknown.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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