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 Sep 15, 1:45 PM PST, 4 hours 57 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY - HANFORD CA
245 PM PDT FRI SEP 15 2006
.SHORT TERM...LATEST SATELLITE IMAGERY ALONG WITH UPPER AIR RUC40
ANALYSIS NOW SHOWING THE TROF AXIS SHIFTING MORE INTO THE GREAT
BASIN THIS AFTERNOON WITH A CONTINUE PUSH OF COOLER AIR INTO THE
DISTRICT. WHILE MOISTURE REMAIN VERY MINIMAL TODAY...UPPER AIR
ANALYSIS CONTINUES TO INDICATE THAT AN +80KT JET PUSHING INTO THE
NORTHERN SECTIONS OF THE CWFA AND ALLOWING FOR BREEZY TO WINDY
CONDITIONS OVER THE HIGHER TERRAIN AND ACROSS THE KERN DESERTS THIS
EVENING. FURTHERMORE...WITH SURFACE PRESSURE GRADIENTS FROM SFO TO
LAS WERE APPROACHING 16MB...LOWER ELEVATION WINDS COULD REACH THE
15 TO 20 MPH RANGE THROUGH SUNSET. IN ADDITION TO THE WINDS...
CURRENT 24 HOUR TEMPERATURE CHANGE CHARTS CONTINUE TO SHOW AS MUCH
AS 15 DEG-F OF COOLING FROM YESTERDAY AFTERNOON. THEREFORE...AS
WINDS SUBSIDE OVERNIGHT ALONG WITH CLEAR SKIES...WILL SEE OVERNIGHT
TEMPERATURES DROP TO NEAR RECORD LOWS AND MANY VALLEY LOCATIONS
REACH DOWN INTO THE UPPER 40S TO LOWER 50S...WITH THE COOLER SPOT
REACHING THE MID 40S. BY SATURDAY...WILL SEE A SLIGHT WARM UP AS
500MB HEIGHTS SLOWLY RISE BUT THE DISTRICT REMAINS UNDER A CYCLONIC
FLOW. SO...WILL SEE A SURFACE PRESSURE GRADIENTS RELAX TO LOWER
WINDS...BUT CONDITIONS WILL REMAIN COOL. LATEST FORECAST MODELS
CONTINUE TO SHOW GOOD AGREEMENT WITH THIS SOLUTION OF SHIFTING THE
TROF FARTHER EAST TOWARD SUNDAY AND ALLOWING HEIGHTS TO REBUILD OVER
THE WEST COAST. RIDGING WILL BE MORE DOMINATE CLOSER TO SUNDAY AS
BETTER WARMING WILL BEGIN. THIS WARMING TREND WILL CONTINUE THROUGH
THE SHORT TERM AND INTO THE LONG TERM AS CLEAR SKIES CONTINUE.
.LONG TERM...MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY...MODELS ARE STILL HAVE
SOME DIFFICULTY HANDLING THE PATTERN AROUND MIDWEEK. THE PERIOD
BEGINS WITH SHORT WAVE RIDGING SHIFTING EAST OVER THE INTERMOUNTAIN
WEST MONDAY NIGHT AS AN UPPER TROUGH MOVES OVER THE PACNW. THIS
TROUGH THEN SLIDES EAST OVER WESTERN MONTANA ON TUESDAY BRINGING A
DRY NORTHWEST FLOW ALOFT OVER THE DISTRICT. AT THE SAME TIME A WEAK
UPPER LOW DRIFTS EAST ALONG 30N TOWARDS THE SOCAL COAST. THE MODELS
THEN WANT TO PHASE THESE TWO SYSTEMS TOGETHER MIDWEEK RESULTING IN
AN AMPLIFIED UPPER TROUGH OVER THE WEST AND A STRONG UPPER RIDGE
BUILDING OVER THE EPAC. THE GFS EVEN ENDS UP DEPICTING A CLASSIC
REX BLOCK BY THURSDAY. BUT THE MAJORITY OF SOLUTIONS HAVE A LITTLE
MORE PROGRESSIVE PATTERN WITH THE TROUGH INITIALLY AMPLIFYING OVER
THE GREAT BASIN ON WEDNESDAY THEN SLOWLY SHIFTING EAST THROUGH
FRIDAY. THERE WILL CERTAINLY BE SOME COOLING NEXT WEEK BUT GIVEN
THE FLUCTUATING MODEL SOLUTIONS WILL REMAIN FAIRLY CONSERVATIVE
WITH THIS TREND. HAVE SLIGHT COOLING EACH DAY THROUGH THURSDAY
WITH HIGHS GENERALLY NEAR TO SLIGHTLY BELOW NORMAL. ALL MODELS
ARE INDICATING LIMITED MOISTURE SO WILL KEEP A DRY FORECAST GOING.
&&
.AVIATION...VFR CONDITIONS WILL PREVAIL THROUGH 00Z SUNDAY.
FOR SPECIFIC DETAILS...PLEASE REFER TO TAFS FOR KMCE...KFAT AND
KBFL AND TWEBS 421 AND 423.
&&
.HNX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL
8 PM PDT THIS EVENING.
&&
MOLINA/DCH1 wildfire. Local standard time, as filed.
The Moore Fire began in the early evening of the 15th of unknown origin. Response was made to this brief grass fire but no other information was reported.
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