Wildfire in California, June 7 to 30, 2009

Name: Wildfire in California, June 7 to 30, 2009
Start: 2009-06-07T23:01
End: 2009-06-30T23:59
Location: California

June 7 to 30, 2009 · NWS HNX · 1 event in 1 county or zone

The Harden wildfire located in Yosemite NP, ignited on June 7th at 2301 PST due to lightning. The location was 13 miles north of Yosemite Valley in Mariposa 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 Harden wildfire located in Yosemite NP, ignited on June 7th at 2301 PST due to lightning. The location was 13 miles north of Yosemite Valley in Mariposa County. The size was 1661 acres. Containment was on July 10th. Cost to containment was $880,000.

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 7, 8:19 PM PST, 2 hours 42 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 7, 8:19 PM PST, 2 hours 42 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY - HANFORD CA
919 PM PDT SUN JUN 7 2009

.UPDATE...LAST OF THE LIGHT SHOWERS OVER THE SIERRA FADING AWAY.
UPDATE TO REMOVE EVENING WORDING. IN ADDITION...THE UPPER LOW WELL
TO THE SW OF OF THE SOCAL COAST WAS PUSHING SOME MID AND HIGH
CLOUDS INTO SOCAL. THE NRN EXTENT WAS NEARING KERN COUNTY. NEW GFS
BRINGS THE LOW CLOSER TO THE COAST MON...SIMILAR TO THE EURO. MAIN
DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE TWO IS PRECIP FIELDS. GFS SEEMS UNDERDONE
BASED ON CONVECTIVE PARAMETERS. THE H85 THETA-E RIDGE ACROSS THE
SIERRA EXTENDS SOUTH AND WRAPS AROUND THE TEHACHAPIS...WITH RATHER
HIGH H7 MOISTURE. WHILE LI/S ARE FCST TO BE SLIGHTLY
POSITIVE...CANT RULE OUT CONVECTION IN KERN COUNTY TOMORROW AND
ADDED A SLIGHT CHANCE FOR THE AFTERNOON. TUES STILL LOOKS LIKE THE
MOST ACTIVE DAY FOR THE MTNS/DESERTS.

&&

.FROM PREVIOUS DISCUSSION...

THE WEAK UPPER TROUGH WILL REMAIN OVER THE REGION AND WILL
CONTINUE TO PROVIDE GENERALLY MILD CONDITIONS THROUGH NEXT
WEEKEND. ENERGY ROTATING THROUGH THE BASE OF THE TROUGH WILL
TRACK ACROSS SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA THROUGH TUESDAY. CONDITIONS
TOMORROW WILL BE PRETTY SIMILAR TO TODAY...THEN EXPECT A SLIGHT
COOLDOWN TUESDAY AS THE WEAK UPPER LOW TRACKS ACROSS SOUTHERN
CALIFORNIA. THIS WILL ALSO SPREAD CONVECTION CHANCES FORM THE
SIERRA INTO THE KERN COUNTY MOUNTAINS AND DESERTS.

MODELS MAINTAIN THE TROUGH OVER THE REGION INTO EARLY NEXT
WEEK...DROPPING ADDITIONAL SURGES OF SHORTWAVE ENERGY THROUGH
THE TROUGH DURING THE PERIOD. THE ECMWF IS A BIT MORE
AGGRESSIVE WITH THE SHORTWAVE TROUGHING...LEADING TO A SLIGHTLY
COOLER FORECAST. A COMPROMISE SOLUTION IN THE EXTENDED KEEPS A
SLIGHT CHANCE FOR CONVECTION OVER THE SIERRA THROUGH THE
PERIOD...WITH TEMPERATURES ACROSS THE DISTRICT REMAINING A BIT
BELOW SEASONAL AVERAGES.

&&

.AVIATION...ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WITH LOCAL MVFR CEILINGS ARE
POSSIBLE NEAR THE SIERRA CREST MONDAY AFTERNOON. OTHERWISE...VFR
CONDITIONS WILL PREVAIL ACROSS THE CENTRAL CALIFORNIA INTERIOR
THROUGH 00Z TUESDAY.

&&

.AIR QUALITY ISSUES...
NONE

&&

.HNX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
NONE.
&&

PUBLIC...BINGHAM
AVN/FW...MV

WEATHER.GOV/HANFORD

Event by event

1 wildfire. Local standard time, as filed.

Wildfire, S Sierra Mtns

When: June 7, 11:01 PM PST to June 30, 11:59 PM PST
Where: S Sierra 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 2009 Every state in 2009 This day in weather history Warnings in California, June 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: 185359.