The Banner Fire burned 110 acres of dense brush and trees east of Julian along highway 78 on the Banner Grade. Voluntary evacuations were ordered at one point for some residents in Whispering Pines, but no homes were burned.
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The Banner Fire burned 110 acres of dense brush and trees east of Julian along highway 78 on the Banner Grade. Voluntary evacuations were ordered at one point for some residents in Whispering Pines, but no homes were burned. The fire was human-caused.
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 San Diego, CA wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 1, 12:25 PM PST, 1 hour 5 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN DIEGO CA 125 PM PDT SUN JUL 1 2007 .SYNOPSIS... STRENGTHENING HIGH PRESSURE OVER THE SOUTHWEST STATES WILL BRING A WARMING TREND THROUGH THURSDAY WITH NEAR RECORD HIGH TEMPERATURES POSSIBLE FOR TUESDAY THROUGH THURSDAY FAR INLAND. THE MARINE LAYER WILL BECOME PATCHIER AND SHALLOWER...BUT WILL CONTINUE TO MODERATE THE COASTAL AREAS. SOME COOLING IS POSSIBLE LATE IN THE WEEK AS HIGH PRESSURE BEGINS TO WEAKEN. && .DISCUSSION...FOR EXTREME SOUTHWESTERN CALIFORNIA INCLUDING ORANGE... SAN DIEGO...WESTERN RIVERSIDE AND SOUTHWESTERN SAN BERNARDINO COUNTIES... OTHER THAN PATCHES OF MARINE STRATUS LEFT AT THE COAST...SKIES ARE SUNNY AND TEMPERATURES ARE RUNNING A FEW DEGREES AHEAD OF YESTERDAY AT 19Z IN MOST AREAS. THERE IS ALSO A WEAK EDDY CIRCULATION OVER THE CA BIGHT...KEEPING THE TEMPERATURE AT KSAN...AND ALONG THE IMMEDIATE COAST IN CHECK. ONSHORE SURFACE PRESSURE GRADIENTS ARE SLIGHTLY WEAKER THAN YESTERDAY...WHICH SHOULD RESULT IN A SLIGHT DECREASE IN THE AFTERNOON SEA BREEZE. HIGH PRESSURE OVERHEAD WILL STRENGTHEN AND EXPAND TO THE NORTH AND EAST THROUGH TUE BRINGING STEADY WARMING. SUBSIDENCE FROM THE STRENGTHENING HIGH PRESSURE WILL RESULT IN A SHALLOWER MARINE LAYER WITH COASTAL LOW CLOUDS SPREADING INLAND MOSTLY AFTER MIDNIGHT... THEN CLEARING TO THE COAST BEFORE NOON EACH DAY. BY TUESDAY...HIGH TEMPERATURES IN THE MOUNTAINS...DESERTS...AND INLAND VALLEYS COULD BE NEAR RECORD LEVELS. NEAR THE COAST...STRONG ONSHORE GRADIENTS IN THE AFTERNOONS AND SURFACE OCEAN WATER TEMPS IN THE UPPER 60S TO LOWER 70S WILL COMBINE TO MODERATE TEMPERATURES CONSIDERABLY. STRONG HIGH PRESSURE ALOFT WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THU...THEN SLOWLY WEAKEN INTO THE WEEKEND. CURRENT INDICATIONS ARE THAT TEMPERATURES COULD GET CLOSE TO 120 IN THE LOWER DESERTS...AND AROUND 110 IN THE INLAND VALLEYS BY MIDWEEK. IT STILL APPEARS EXCESSIVE HEAT WARNING CRITERIA COULD BE MET IN THE INLAND EMPIRE AND FOR INLAND PORTIONS OF THE SAN DIEGO COUNTY VALLEYS FOR WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY AFTERNOONS. A STRONG TEMPERATURE GRADIENT WILL SET UP FROM THE INLAND VALLEYS TO THE COAST...WHERE TEMPERATURES WILL LIKELY REMAIN IN THE 70S IN THE AFTERNOONS. IF HIGH PRESSURE WEAKENS FRI THROUGH SUN AS CURRENTLY ADVERTISED BY THE MODELS...IT SHOULD ALLOW FOR SOME COOLING LATE IN THE WEEK. THE MEDIUM RANGE MODELS HAVE BEEN HINTING AT A MOISTURE INFLUX FROM THE SOUTHEAST IN THE EXTENDED PERIODS REPEATEDLY...BUT IT GETS PUSHED BACK WITH SUCCESSIVE RUNS. NOW IT LOOKS LIKE THIS MAY HAPPEN EARLY NEXT WEEK SOMETIME. CONFIDENCE REMAINS LOW...BUT GIVEN THE TIME OF YEAR...SUSPECT IT WILL VERIFY AT SOME POINT. IN ANY CASE... IT WILL NOT SHOW UP IN THE OFFICIAL FORECAST THROUGH NEXT WEEKEND. && .AVIATION... 011815Z...LATE MORNING MDCRS SOUNDINGS INDICATE THE MARINE LAYER DEPTH HAD LOWERED TO AROUND 700 FEET FROM THIS MORNING. SOME RECOVERY OF THE MARINE LAYER TO AROUND 1000 FEET IS EXPECTED TONIGHT AS A WEAK EDDY CONTINUES OVER THE COASTAL WATERS. STRATUS WITH BASES AROUND 800 FEET MSL SHOULD MOVE BACK ONTO THE COAST BY SUNSET THEN PUSH LOCALLY INLAND INTO THE LOWER COASTAL VALLEYS OVERNIGHT. COASTAL AIRPORTS SUCH AS KSAN AND KCRQ SHOULD RECEIVE CEILINGS AROUND MIDNIGHT AND KSNA COULD RECEIVE A CEILING BY SUNRISE ON SUNDAY. CLEARING OVER THE VALLEY AREAS SHOULD BEGIN WITHIN AN HOUR OR TWO AFTER SUNRISE WITH RAPID CLEARING TO THE COAST BETWEEN 15Z AND 17Z. ABOVE THE MARINE LAYER...EXCEPT FOR SOME CIRRUS AT TIMES...CLEAR WITH UNRESTRICTED VISIBILITIES ARE EXPECTED THROUGH MONDAY. A SIGNIFICANT WARMUP IS EXPECTED IN THE DESERTS AND SOME INLAND VALLEY AREAS THIS COMING WEEK. AFTERNOON TEMPERATURES AT KPSP AND NEARBY AIRPORTS SHOULD BE BETWEEN 115 AND 120 DEGREES BEGINNING MONDAY AND CONTINUING THROUGH MOST OF THE WEEK. KONT SHOULD REACH 100 TO 105 DEGREES TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY. NOTE...THERE IS STILL A COMMS PROBLEM PREVENTING THE KONT ASOS METAR FROM BEING DISSEMINATED. THE CONTRACT OBSERVER AT KONT CONTINUES TO RELAY THE METAR VIA FLIGHT SERVICE. HORTON && .SGX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... CA...NONE. PZ...NONE. && PUBLIC...JAD AVIATION/MARINE...HORTON NWS ON THE WEB AT WEATHER.GOV/SANDIEGO
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN DIEGO CA 105 PM PDT SUN JUL 1 2007 CAZ042-043-048-050-055-056-057-058-060-061-062-021300- ORANGE COUNTY COASTAL AREAS- SAN DIEGO COUNTY COASTAL AREAS- SAN BERNARDINO AND RIVERSIDE COUNTY VALLEYS-THE INLAND EMPIRE- SAN DIEGO COUNTY VALLEYS- SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY MOUNTAINS- RIVERSIDE COUNTY MOUNTAINS- SANTA ANA MOUNTAINS AND FOOTHILLS- SAN DIEGO COUNTY MOUNTAINS- APPLE AND LUCERNE VALLEYS- COACHELLA VALLEY- SAN DIEGO COUNTY DESERTS- 105 PM PDT SUN JUL 1 2007 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR ALL OF EXTREME SOUTHWESTERN CALIFORNIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY. TUESDAY THROUGH THURSDAY...STRONG HIGH PRESSURE OVER THE SOUTHWESTERN STATES WILL BRING THE HOTTEST WEATHER OF THE YEAR SO FAR TO THE REGION. HIGH TEMPERATURES WILL REACH 115 TO 120 DEGREES IN THE DESERTS...AND 110 IN THE INLAND VALLEYS. MOUNTAIN HIGHS WILL CLIMB INTO THE 90S...ALTHOUGH THE MOUNTAIN SLOPES BELOW 5000 FEET WILL EXCEED 100. EXCESSIVE HEAT WARNING CRITERIA MAY BE MET FOR SOME OF THESE AREAS...MOST LIKELY ON WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY IN THE INLAND VALLEYS. TUESDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH SATURDAY...INCREASING SOUTH SWELL WILL CREATE ELEVATED SURF AND HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK AT MANY BEACHES. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SKYWARN WEATHER SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT REQUESTED AT THIS TIME. JAD
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 wildfire. Local standard time, as filed.
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