Wildfire, Tulare Cty Mtns
- When
- July 1, 12:00 AM PST to July 31, 11:59 PM PST
- Where
- Tulare Cty Mtns forecast zone
- Reported by
- Park/Forest Service
Wildfire in California, July 1 to 31, 2009
The Lion Wildfire, located in Sequoia National Forest, ignited on 6/30/09 at 1030 PDT due to lightning strikes. The location was 3 miles northwest of the Blackrock Ranger Station on the Kern Plateau 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 Lion Wildfire, located in Sequoia National Forest, ignited on 6/30/09 at 1030 PDT due to lightning strikes. The location was 3 miles northwest of the Blackrock Ranger Station on the Kern Plateau in Tulare County. The size was 2023 acres. There were no fatalities or structures lost directly due to the wildfire. The cost to containment was $528,190.
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 Jun 30, 8:40 PM PST, 3 hours 20 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 30, 8:40 PM PST, 3 hours 20 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY - HANFORD CA 940 PM PDT TUE JUN 30 2009 .DISCUSSION...SKIES ARE JUST ABOUT COMPLETELY CLEAR AS CONVECTIVE ACTIVITY CONTINUES TO DIMINISH ACROSS THE DISTRICT THIS EVENING. OTHER THEN A FEW HIGH CLOUDS ROLLING OVER THE AREA OVERNIGHT... WILL NOT EXPECT ANY ADDITIONAL WEATHER CONCERNS UNTIL WELL AFTER DAYBREAK ON WEDNESDAY. WITH LITTLE CHANGE IN THE NEXT 24 HOURS... WILL SEE AN ADDITIONAL DAY OF HOT TEMPERATURES. SHORT RANGE MODELS SHOW THE FLOW ALOFT BECOMING SLIGHTLY MORE SOUTHEASTERLY AS MORE MOISTURE SURGES UP FROM THE SOUTH. A WEAK CLOSED LOW OFF THE PACIFIC COAST THIS ALLOW THE FLOW ALOFT TO SHIFT MORE EASTERLY. THEREFORE...WILL CONTINUE TO MENTION A SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS FOR THE MOUNTAINS AS INSTABILITY AND MOISTURE WILL ALLOW FOR SOME POTENTIAL DURING WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON. WILL MAKE NO UPDATES TO THE CURRENT FORECAST. && .AVIATION...ISOLATED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS CAN BE EXPECTED OVER THE SOUTHERN SIERRA NEVADA AND TEHACHAPI MOUNTAINS AND THE KERN DESERTS BETWEEN 19Z WEDNESDAY AND 03Z THURSDAY...PRODUCING LOCAL MVFR CEILINGS. OTHERWISE...VFR CONDITIONS WILL PREVAIL ACROSS THE CENTRAL CALIFORNIA INTERIOR THROUGH 06Z THURSDAY. && .AIR QUALITY ISSUES...ON WEDNESDAY JULY 1 2009... UNHEALTHY FOR SENSITIVE GROUPS IN FRESNO... KERN AND KINGS COUNTIES. FURTHER INFORMATION IS AVAILABLE AT VALLEYAIR.ORG && .HNX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...NONE. && PUBLIC...MOLINA AVN/FW...JDB WEATHER.GOV/HANFORD
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 30, 4:55 AM PST, 19 hours 5 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY - HANFORD CA 555 AM PDT TUE JUN 30 2009 CAZ093>099-011200- MARIPOSA MADERA AND FRESNO COUNTY FOOTHILLS- TULARE COUNTY FOOTHILLS-KERN COUNTY MOUNTAINS- SIERRA NEVADA FROM YOSEMITE TO KINGS CANYON- TULARE COUNTY MOUNTAINS-INDIAN WELLS VALLEY- SOUTHEASTERN KERN COUNTY DESERT- 555 AM PDT TUE JUN 30 2009 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE MOUNTAINS AND DESERTS OF INTERIOR CENTRAL CALIFORNIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT ISOLATED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE ACROSS THE SOUTHERN SIERRA NEVADA...THE TEHACHAPI MOUNTAINS...AND HIGH DESERTS OF KERN COUNTY THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY ISOLATED TO SCATTERED AFTERNOON AND EVENING THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE ACROSS THE SOUTHERN SIERRA NEVADA...THE TEHACHAPI MOUNTAINS...AND HIGH DESERTS OF KERN COUNTY THROUGH THURSDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SKYWARN SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. HOWEVER...WEATHER SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT ANY SIGNIFICANT OR UNUSUAL CONDITIONS TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. 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
- Flood and Hail in Massachusetts, July 1, 2009
- Heat in Pennsylvania, July 1, 2009
- Flooding in North Dakota, July 1 to 31, 2009
- Tornado and Flood in Florida, July 1 to 3, 2009
- Flash Flooding and Hail in New York, July 1, 2009
- Lightning Strike in Delaware, July 1, 2009
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Connecticut, July 1, 2009
- Flash Flooding and Flooding in Rhode Island, July 1, 2009
- Drought in Texas, July 1 to 31, 2009
- Damaging Wind in South Carolina, July 1, 2009
- Hail and Damaging Winds in North Carolina, July 1, 2009
- Flash Flood in Connecticut, July 1, 2009
More
Every storm in California in 2009Every state in 2009This day in weather historyWarnings in California, July 2009
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: 191719.