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 30, 12:45 PM PST, 2 hours 15 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY - HANFORD CA 145 PM PDT TUE MAY 30 2006 .SHORT TERM...TUESDAY THROUGH THURSDAY...DEVELOPING LOW IN THE GLF OF AK WILL DROP SE AND MOVE TOWARD THE PAC NW COAST THE NEXT 36 HRS. AT THE SAME TIME...THE DOWN STREAM RIDGE WILL BEGIN AMPLIFYING OVER THE DESERT SW. THIS WILL KEEP CENTRAL CA IN A DRY SW FLOW ALOFT WITH A CONTINUATION OF THE WARMING TREND WED AND THURS. ON THURS NITE...A FAIRLY STRONG SHORTWAVE EJECTS OUT OF THE MEAN TROF. WHILE IT HAS LITTLE IMPACT ON HEIGHTS OR H85 TEMPS ACROSS CENTRAL CA...NAM SHOWS A SIGNIFICANT TIGHTENING OF THE SF0-LAS GRADIENT. THINKING ATTM IS THAT WITH HIGH HEIGHTS ACROSS THE REGION...ONLY SOME COOLING/LESS WARMING WILL OCCUR THRU THE DELTA INTO NRN PORTIONS OF THE SJV. LOWERED TEMPS SLIGHTLY AROUND MERCED CO OTHERWISE LITTLE TEMP CHANGE. A FEW HIGH CLOUDS TO MOVE THRU FROM TIME TO TIME...BUT STILL MOSUNNY DAYS EXPECTED THRU FRI. .LONG TERM...FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY...THE MEAN UPPER TROF IN THE EAST PAC WILL CONT TO SEND IMPULSES INLAND ACROSS THE PAC NW SAT AND SUN. THIS WILL LIKELY KEEP THE MARINE LAYER MODERATLY DEEP AND WILL LIKELY SEE SOME SMALL MARINE INFLUENCE IN THE VALLEY. HAVE STAYED SLIGHTLY UNDER MOS SAT AND SUN. ELSEWHERE...LITTLE CHANGE. SOME QUESTION ON WHAT HAPPENS MON AND TUES. GFS IS AN OUTLIER IN TRYING TO BUILD HEIGHTS BOTH DAYS WHILE THE ECM AND TO SOME EXTENT DGEX...KEEPING W-SW FLOW ALOFT OVER CENTRAL CA AND H5 HEIGHTS 60-80 METERS LOWER. FOR THIS UNCERTAINTY...KEPT BELOW GFS MOS A FEW DEGS ALL AREAS...BUT STILL SEVERAL DEGS ABOVE NORMAL FOR EARLY JUN. CLEAR SKIES SHOULD PREVAIL THROUGHOUT. && .AVIATION...VFR CONDITIONS WILL PREVAIL THROUGH 18Z WEDNESDAY. FOR SPECIFIC DETAILS...PLEASE REFER TO TAFS FOR KMCE...KFAT AND KBFL. && .HNX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...NONE. && BINGHAM
1 wildfire. Local standard time, as filed.
The Mocal Fire burned 905 acres 9 miles west of Taft in Kern County. No structures were lost, no injuries occurred, and the cost to combat the fire was unreported.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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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: 5509844.