Wildfire in California, July 16 to 20, 2007

Name: Wildfire in California, July 16 to 20, 2007
Start: 2007-07-16T17:00
End: 2007-07-20T00:00
Location: California

July 16 to 20, 2007 · NWS HNX · 1 event in 1 county or zone

The Willow wildfire occurred in Kings Canyon National Park. The location was 22 miles east of Three Rivers in Tulare County.

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.

The Willow wildfire occurred in Kings Canyon National Park. The location was 22 miles east of Three Rivers in Tulare County. The cause of the wildfire was dry lightning. The size of the wildfire was 110 acres.

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 Jul 16, 1:56 PM PST, 3 hours 4 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 16, 1:56 PM PST, 3 hours 4 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY - HANFORD CA
256 PM PDT MON JUL 16 2007

.DISCUSSION...

VERY PLEASANT MID SUMMER CONDITIONS IN STORE FOR THE NEXT SEVERAL
DAYS ACROSS THE CENTRAL VALLEY.

DEEP UPPER LOW OFF THE NW COAST WILL HELP DRIVE A FAIRLY STRONG
ONSHORE FLOW INTO THE CALIFORNIA INTERIOR BY WEDNESDAY AND
THURSDAY. HOWEVER THIS COOLING TREND WILL BE SHORT LIVED AS A
STRONG UPPER HIGH RETROGRADES FROM THE HIGH PLAINS INTO THE
SOUTHWEST STATES THROUGH THE WEEKEND...PROMOTING A NOTED WARMUP.

AFTER HIGHS ONLY IN THE 80S WED AND THU...TEMPS WILL LEVEL TO NEAR
NORMS FRI AND SAT...THEN RISE SLIGHTLY ABOVE NORMAL FOR SUN AND
MON WITH READINGS BETWEEN 100-105 ACROSS THE SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY.

DIURNALLY DRIVEN ISOLATED CONVECTION AND CUMULUS DEVELOPMENT OVER
THE SIERRA NEVADA CREST THIS AFTERNOON WILL DWINDLE LATER THIS
EVENING...ESPECIALLY AS A SHEERING-OUT S/W TROUGH MOVES INTO THE
DESERT SW AND OUR CWA BECOMES TRAPPED IN THE SUBSIDENCE SECTOR OF
THIS FEATURE. ALSO GIVEN THE PREDOMINANT SW FLOW...ANY TSTMS WILL
LIKELY FALL TO THE EAST OFF THE CREST AND WILL NOT AFFECT VALLEY
LOCATIONS. TYPICAL BREEZE TONIGHT THROUGH THE VALLEY BUT NOT QUITE
AS STRONG AS THE LATEST MOS WINDS ARE DEPICTING.

&&

.AVIATION...

ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS NEAR THE SIERRA CREST EARLY
THIS EVENING WILL PRODUCE GUSTY AND ERRATIC WINDS WITH LOCAL
MVFR. OTHERWISE...VFR CONDITIONS WILL PREVAIL THROUGHOUT THE
CENTRAL CALIFORNIA INTERIOR THROUGH 00Z WEDNESDAY. FOR SPECIFIC
DETAILS...PLEASE REFER TO THE TAFS AT KMCE...KFAT AND KBFL...AND
TWEB ROUTES 421 AND 423.

&&

.AIR QUALITY ISSUES...

NONE.

&&

.HNX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...

NONE.

&&

JMB/KD

WEATHER.GOV/HANFORD

Event by event

1 wildfire. Local standard time, as filed.

Wildfire, Tulare Cty Mtns

When: July 16, 5:00 PM PST to July 20, 12:00 AM PST
Where: Tulare Cty Mtns forecast zone
Reported by: Park/Forest Service

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

Every storm in California in 2007 Every state in 2007 This day in weather history Warnings in California, July 2007

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: 51649.