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 May 26, 1:30 PM PST, 2 hours 30 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY - HANFORD CA 230 PM PDT FRI MAY 26 2006 .SHORT TERM...FOR THE CENTRAL CALIFORNIA INTERIOR...UPPER TROF IS SAGGING SOUTH INTO THE AREA THIS AFTERNOON. SOME HIGH CLOUDS WERE MOVING THRU IN ADVANCE OF THE TROF. AS THE ASSOCIATED UPPER JET MOVES IN LATER TODAY...IT WILL COUPLE WITH HEALTHY 16 MB SFO-LAS SFC GRAD TO BRING BREEZY TO LOCALLY WINDY CONDS TONITE AND SAT...FROM THE WEST SIDE OF THE SJV THRU THE TEHACHAPIS INTO THE KERN DESERTS WITH A FEW AREAS BLOWING DUST POSSIBLE. WINDS WILL BEGIN TO ABATE SAT NITE AS TROF AXIS MOVES TO THE EAST AND SFC PRESSURES RISE IN THE GREAT BASIN. HEIGHTS SHOW A GRADUAL RECOVERY SUN AND MON. TEMPS THE NEXT 3 DAYS WILL BE BELOW NORMAL...WITH THE COOLEST DAY EXPECTED SAT...THEN A SLOW REBOUND SUN AND MON. TEMPS SAT A LITTLE PROBLEMATIC. MODELS SHOW RATHER STRONG 1000-500 MB THICKNESS FALLS ON THE ORDER OF 150 METERS BY SAT MORNING WHICH LED ME TO UNDERCUT GFS MOS BY A FEW DEGS...BUT THAT MAY NOT BE ENOUGH. OTHER THAN A FEW CLOUDS...MEMORIAL DAY SHAPING UP TO BE A PLEASANT DAY WITH MAINLY LIGHT WINDS AND TEMPS SLIGHTLY BELOW NORMAL. .LONG TERM...MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY...EXTENDED PORTION OF THE FORECAST WILL ALLOW FOR TEMPERATURES TO RETURN MORE TOWARDS NORMAL WITH POSSIBLE SLIGHTLY ABOVE NORMAL TEMPERATURES BY THE END OF THE FORECAST PERIOD. ECMWF AND THE EXTENDED GFS ARE IN GOOD AGREEMENT THROUGH DAY 5 WITH THE CLOSED UPPER LOW OFF THE PAC NW COAST MOVING INLAND ACROSS THE NRN CA REGION AND INTO NORTHERN PLAINS BY DAY 3. NW FLOW ACROSS THE REGION WILL KEEP TEMPERATURES DOWN AND ZONAL FLOW WILL CONTINUE THROUGH DAY 5 AS EPAC RIDGE WILL BEGIN TO REBUILD. DIFFERENCES BECOME MORE EVIDENT WITH THE REDEVELOPMENT OF THE GULF OF AK LOW NEAR 50N AND 140W WHICH ALLOWS THE RIDGE TO BUILD IN OVER THE AREA AND ALLOW TEMPS TO WARM UP. THE GUIDANCE IS BRINGING TEMPS ABOVE CLIMO BY DAY 6 AND 7, THIS MAY BE OVERDONE BASED ON THE DUE TO THE MEAN ENSEMBLE HEIGHTS ARE INDICATING THE LOW MAY BE A BIT FURTHER TO THE SOUTH BY THIS TIME FRAME AND WITH UPSTREAM RIDGING, THIS MAY ALLOW FOR THE HEIGHT RISES TO NOT BE AS HIGH AS THE GFS IS FORECASTING. THE POSITION OF THE LOW CENTER IS FURTHER TO THE SOUTH ACCORDING TO THE ECMWF. 50 TO 60 METER HEIGHT DIFFERENCES ARE NOTED BETWEEN THE MODELS AND HAVE STAYED CLOSER TO CLIMO IN THE EXTENDED BEYOND DAY 5. DRY CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED THROUGH THE FORECAST PERIOD. && .AVIATION...EXPECT MVFR CONDITIONS ALONG THE FOOTHILLS AND INTO THE SOUTHERN PORTION OF THE VALLEY FLOOR WHERE UPSLOPE CLOUDS WILL DEVELOP AFTER 03Z. WINDS WILL BE THE BIGGEST FORECAST PROBLEM DURING THE FORECAST PERIOD. WINDS WILL BE GUSTING UP TO 20 TO 25 KTS AT AREA FORECAST POINTS. CLOUDS WILL SLOWLY BURN OFF SATURDAY.FOR MORE DETAILS...PLEASE REFER TO TAFS FOR KMCE..KFAT AND KBFL. && && .HNX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...WIND ADVISORY THROUGH 4 AM SUNDAY FOR THE KERN MOUNTAINS AND DESERTS. && BINGHAM/JDB
1 wildfire. Local standard time, as filed.
The Energy Fire was of unknown origin and burned 850 acres 8.7 miles southeast of Tehachapi in the Kern County Mountains. No structures were lost, cost to fight the fire was unknown, and no injuries occurred to fight the fire.
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