Wildfire, Tulare Cty Mtns
- When
- August 26, 11:00 PM PST to August 31, 11:59 PM PST
- Where
- Tulare Cty Mtns forecast zone
- Reported by
- Park/Forest Service
Wildfire in California, August 26 to 31, 2007
Dry conditions combined with hot temperatures and gusty winds generated several wildfires across south-central California during August. The Grouse fire in the Sequoia National Forest was caused by lightning on the 27th.
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 1
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.
What happened
The episode as NWS HNX wrote it up.
Dry conditions combined with hot temperatures and gusty winds generated several wildfires across south-central California during August.
The Grouse fire in the Sequoia National Forest was caused by lightning on the 27th. The size was 1100 acres and was located 52 miles northeast of Porterville. This fire continued through the month of September. This fire cost $1,300,000 to fight, but did not cause any injuries or property damage.
What forecasters said that day
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 Aug 26, 8:58 PM PST, 2 hours 2 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 26, 8:58 PM PST, 2 hours 2 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY - HANFORD CA 958 PM PDT SUN AUG 26 2007 .DISCUSSION...PRECIP IS DIMINISHING THIS EVENING ACROSS THE DISTRICT AND THE UPPER LOW ASSOCIATED WITH TODAY/S ACTIVITY MOVES MORE ONSHORE. CURRENTLY...THE UPPER LOW WAS SPINNING OFF OF SAN BARBARA AND IS PROGGED TO MOVE NORTHEAST OVERNIGHT. MODELS DO SHOW A WEAK SHORT WAVE TROF PUSHING THE VORT LOBE EAST ON MONDAY WITH THE ONLY THE MOUNTAINS HAVING ANY POTENTIAL FOR CONVECTION DURING THE AFTERNOON. BY MONDAY AFTERNOON...THE FLOW ALOFT BECOME A BIT MORE WESTERLY AND SHOULD CLEAR OUT MOST OF THE VALLEY ZONES. WILL KEEP CLOUDS OVER THE FOOTHILLS AND MOUNTAINS THROUGH MONDAY AS THE BULK OF THE MOISTURE BANKS UP AGAINST THE EASTERN SIDE OF THE DISTRICT. MODELS STILL PROGGING CONTINUAL INSTABILITY OVER THE SIERRA NEVADA RANGE ALONG WITH 700MB RH VALUES AT OR ABOVE 60 PERCENT. THEREFORE...WILL MAINTAIN THE SLIGHT CHANCE WORDING OF THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE MOUNTAINS ON MONDAY. IN ADDITION...WITH CLEARING SKIES...WILL SEE TEMPERATURES REBOUND ON MONDAY AS A WARMING TREND STARTS AND CONTINUES INTO MID WEEK. WIL MAKE NO UPDATES FOR NOW AS ALL WEATHER ELEMENTS ON TRACK WITH LATEST THINKING. && .AVIATION...ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS MAY BE OBSERVED ON MONDAY OVER THE SIERRA NEVADA AS A WEATHER DISTURBANCE MOVES NORTHWARD FROM THE CHANNEL ISLANDS. VFR CONDITIONS ARE HOWEVER EXPECTED OVER THE ENTIRE REGION OVERNIGHT. FOR SPECIFIC DETAILS...PLEASE REFER TO THE TAFS FOR KMCE...KFAT AND KBFL...AND TWEB ROUTES 421 AND 423. && .AIR QUALITY ISSUES...NONE. && .HNX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...NONE. && PUBLIC...MOLINA ANV/FW...JDB WEATHER.GOV/HANFORD
Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 26, 4:05 AM PST, 18 hours 55 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY - HANFORD CA 505 AM PDT SUN AUG 26 2007 CAZ089>092-271200- WEST CENTRAL SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY-EAST CENTRAL SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY- SOUTHWESTERN SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY-SOUTHEASTERN SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY- 505 AM PDT SUN AUG 26 2007 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT ISOLATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THIS EVENING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... WEATHER SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER CONDITIONS TO THE SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE. WEATHER.GOV/HANFORD CAZ093>097-271200- MARIPOSA MADERA AND FRESNO COUNTY FOOTHILLS- TULARE COUNTY FOOTHILLS-KERN COUNTY MOUNTAINS- SIERRA NEVADA FROM YOSEMITE TO KINGS CANYON- TULARE COUNTY MOUNTAINS- 505 AM PDT SUN AUG 26 2007 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE KERN COUNTY MOUNTAINS AND THE FOOTHILLS AND HIGHER ELEVATIONS OF THE SOUTHERN SIERRA NEVADA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT ISOLATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH TONIGHT. A FEW THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE DRY LIGHTNING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY A SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS MONDAY. OTHERWISE...NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... WEATHER SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER CONDITIONS TO THE SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE. WEATHER.GOV/HANFORD CAZ098-099-271200- INDIAN WELLS VALLEY-SOUTHEASTERN KERN COUNTY DESERT- 505 AM PDT SUN AUG 26 2007 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE KERN COUNTY DESERTS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT ISOLATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH TONIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY A SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS MONDAY. OTHERWISE...NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... WEATHER SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER CONDITIONS TO THE SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE. SANGER WEATHER.GOV/HANFORD
Event by event
1 wildfire. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Wildfire
- A fire burning in wildland vegetation, with its acreage and damage where known.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
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- Flash Flooding and Damaging Winds in North Carolina, August 26, 2007
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Kansas, August 26, 2007
- Marine Thunderstorm Winds in Gulf of Mexico, August 26 to 27, 2007
- Flash Flood and Hail in California, August 26, 2007
- Hail in Utah, August 26, 2007
- Damaging Winds in South Carolina, August 26, 2007
More
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Sources
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: 59196.