Wildfire in California, September 8 to 14, 2013

Name: Wildfire in California, September 8 to 14, 2013
Start: 2013-09-08T00:00
End: 2013-09-14T00:00
Location: California

September 8 to 14, 2013 · NWS HNX · 1 event in 1 county or zone

Angora wildfire was in Sequoia NF and the ignition date was 9/8/13. The cause was lightning and the location was 20 miles NE of Springville (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.

Angora wildfire was in Sequoia NF and the ignition date was 9/8/13. The cause was lightning and the location was 20 miles NE of Springville (Tulare County). The size was 134 acres. Containment was reached on 9/13/13. Cost to containment was $915,233.

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 Sep 7, 6:45 PM PST, 5 hours 15 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 7, 6:45 PM PST, 5 hours 15 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY - HANFORD CA
745 PM PDT SAT SEP 7 2013

.UPDATE...
UPDATED AIR QUALITY SECTION.

&&

.SYNOPSIS...
DRY CONDITIONS WILL CONTINUE OVER THE CENTRAL CALIFORNIA INTERIOR
THROUGH MONDAY WITH ABOVE NORMAL TEMPERATURES. MONSOONAL
MOISTURE...INCLUDING THE REMNANTS OF TROPICAL DEPRESSION LORENA...IS
EXPECTED TO RETURN TO THE REGION BY TUESDAY FOR A SLIGHT CHANCE OF
THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE MOUNTAINS AND DESERT TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY.

&&

.UPDATED DISCUSSION...
00Z NAM INITIALIZED A 500-MB 5870-METER HIGH OVER THE SOUTHERN HALF
OF INYO COUNTY...WITH THE 5860-METER HEIGHT LINE OVER BAKERSFIELD.
500-MB HEIGHTS OVER BAKERSFIELD ARE FORECAST BY THE NEW NAM TO ONLY
FALL 20 METERS BY 00Z MONDAY...AND 850-MB TEMPERATURES OVER
BAKERSFIELD ARE FORECAST TO COOL BY ONLY 1 C...FROM 26 C THIS
AFTERNOON TO 25 C SUNDAY AFTERNOON. THUS...EXPECT THE SOUTH END OF
THE SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY TO BE 2-3 DEGREES COOLER SYNOPTICALLY SUNDAY
THAN TODAY...BUT STILL MOSTLY IN THE TRIPLE DIGITS. ACCORDINGLY...
HAVE RAISED BAKERSFIELD/S HIGH FOR SUNDAY BY 3 DEGREES AND ADJUSTED
THE HOURLY GRIDS PER THIS CHANGE.

DID HAVE SOUTHEAST WINDS GUSTING AS HIGH AS 33 MPH ALONG THE EASTERN
EDGE OF KERN COUNTY EARLIER THIS EVENING. THESE WINDS MAY BEEN DUE
TO OUTFLOW WINDS FROM DYING THUNDERSTORMS OVER SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY.
LATEST SURFACE OBSERVATIONS INDICATE THAT THE WINDS ARE SUBSIDING AS
THE CONVECTION MOVES FURTHER EAST OF KERN COUNTY.

&&

.DISCUSSION...
TEMPERATURES IN THE CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY WARMED
SEVERAL DEGREES AS 1000-500-MB THICKNESSES OVER THE REGION
INCREASED TO AROUND 5820 METERS. BAKERSFIELD WARMED TO 105 DEGREES
AND FRESNO REACHED 102. THE HIGH AT BAKERSFIELD WAS UP 13 DEGREES
FROM FRIDAY/S HIGH...AND TIED WITH COALINGA AS THE HOTTEST SPOTS
IN THE HANFORD WARNING/FORECAST AREA.

&&

.AVIATION...
AREAS OF MVFR CONDITIONS WITH ISOLATED IFR IN SMOKE OVER THE NORTH
SECTORS OF YOSEMITE AND MARIPOSA COUNTY. OTHERWISE...VFR CONDITIONS
WILL PREVAIL ACROSS THE CENTRAL CA INTERIOR DURING THE NEXT 24
HOURS.

&&

.PREV DISC... /ISSUED 238 PM PDT SAT SEP 7 2013/

DISCUSSION...UPPER LOW IS NOW SITUATED OVER THE WASHINGTON/BRITISH
COLUMBIA BORDER WITH AN UPPER RIDGE CENTERED OVER THE PLAINS AND AN
AMPLIFYING RIDGE OVER THE EAST PACIFIC. SUNNY SKIES PREVAIL OVER THE
CENTRAL CALIFORNIA INTERIOR WITH THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING ACROSS THE
SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY DESERTS. THIS ACTIVITY IS EXPECTED TO STAY JUST
EAST AND SOUTHEAST OF THE KERN COUNTY DESERT BUT DOES NEED WATCHING.
THE SURFACE FLOW HAS TURNED WEAKLY OFFSHORE AND 24 HOUR TRENDS SHOW
TEMPERATURES ACROSS THE CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY ARE
GENERALLY UP 7-10 DEGREES. THIS WILL RESULT IN MAX TEMPS SURPASSING
THE CENTURY MARK IN MANY LOCATIONS...SEVERAL DEGREES ABOVE NORMAL
FOR EARLY SEPTEMBER. THE LOW WILL SHIFT EAST ACROSS MONTANA SUNDAY
AND MONDAY AS THE EPAC RIDGE BUILDS OVER THE WEST COAST. THE BULK OF
MONSOON MOISTURE IS FORECAST TO REMAIN OVER THE FOUR CORNERS REGION
THROUGH NEXT WEEK...BUT RH PROGS SHOW THE WESTERN FRINGE REACHING
THE SOUTHERN SIERRA BY TUESDAY. THEREFORE A SLIGHT CHANCE OF SHOWERS
AND THUNDERSTORMS REMAINS OVER THE MOUNTAINS AND DESERT TUESDAY AND
WEDNESDAY. AN UPPER TROUGH IS EXPECTED TO APPROACH THE PAC NW COAST
BY THURSDAY AND BEGIN TO PUSH THIS MOISTURE EAST AGAIN. LEFT A SLIGHT
CHANCE ALONG THE SIERRA CREST THURSDAY THEN A DRY FORECAST FOR NEXT
FRIDAY AND SATURDAY. LITTLE CHANGES IN TEMPERATURES ARE EXPECTED
THROUGH TUESDAY THEN A FEW DEGREES COOLING WILL BRING MAX TEMPS DOWN
TO JUST SLIGHTLY ABOVE NORMAL FOR THE LATTER HALF OF THE WEEK.

&&

.AIR QUALITY ISSUES...
ON SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 8 2013...UNHEALTHY IN FRESNO AND TULARE
COUNTIES. UNHEALTHY FOR SENSITIVE GROUPS IN KERN...KINGS...
MADERA AND MERCED COUNTIES.
FURTHER INFORMATION IS AVAILABLE AT VALLEYAIR.ORG

TUOLUMNE COUNTY...SEE SFOAQAHNX.
FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION...CALL YOUR LOCAL AIR DISTRICT

TUOLUMNE COUNTY AIR DISTRICT OFFICE...209.533.5693

&&

.CERTAINTY...

THE LEVEL OF CERTAINTY FOR DAYS 1 AND 2 IS HIGH.
THE LEVEL OF CERTAINTY FOR DAYS 3 THROUGH 7 IS MEDIUM.

THIS INFORMATION IS PROVIDED AS PART OF A TRIAL PROJECT CONDUCTED
BY THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY - HANFORD.
CERTAINTY LEVELS INCLUDE LOW...MEDIUM...AND HIGH. PLEASE VISIT
WWW.WEATHER.GOV/HNX/CERTAINTY.PHP /ALL LOWER CASE/ FOR ADDITIONAL
INFORMATION AND/OR TO PROVIDE FEEDBACK.

&&

.CLIMATE...
             RECORDS
SITE DATE    HI_MAX:YEAR LO_MAX:YEAR HI_MIN:YEAR LO_MIN:YEAR

KFAT 09-07      108:1904     77:1893     73:1998     50:1964
KFAT 09-08      108:1904     76:1931     74:1998     49:1897
KFAT 09-09      107:1904     75:1985     76:1888     50:1964

KBFL 09-07      110:1977     77:1978     78:1977     45:1901
KBFL 09-08      109:1904     77:1914     78:1977     47:1915
KBFL 09-09      108:1904     76:1985     80:1982     48:1901
&&

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

&&

PUBLIC...SANGER
AVN/FW...DS
PREV DISCUSSION...DCH
SYNOPSIS...BSO

WEATHER.GOV/HANFORD

Hazardous weather outlook, Sep 7, 2:20 AM PST, 21 hours 40 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY - HANFORD CA
320 AM PDT SAT SEP 7 2013

CAZ095>099-081100-
KERN COUNTY MOUNTAINS-SIERRA NEVADA FROM YOSEMITE TO KINGS CANYON-
TULARE COUNTY MOUNTAINS-INDIAN WELLS VALLEY-
SOUTHEASTERN KERN COUNTY DESERT-
320 AM PDT SAT SEP 7 2013

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE SOUTHERN SIERRA
NEVADA...AND THE KERN COUNTY MOUNTAINS AND DESERTS.

...SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS TUESDAY THROUGH THURSDAY...

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER EXPECTED.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY

* TIMING: A SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE TUESDAY AND
  WEDNESDAY OVER THE MOUNTAINS AND DESERT WITH ISOLATED
  THUNDERSTORMS LINGERING OVER THE SIERRA NEVADA THURSDAY.

* LOCATIONS INCLUDE: THE SOUTHERN SIERRA NEVADA...THE SEQUOIA
  FOREST PORTION OF THE KERN COUNTY MOUNTAINS AND THE KERN COUNTY
  DESERT.

* IMPACTS: GUSTY WINDS...BRIEF HEAVY RAIN. LIGHTNING DANGER TO
  PUBLIC AND POTENTIAL FIRE STARTS.

* STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...OR YOUR FAVORITE NEWS
  SOURCE...FOR FURTHER INFORMATION.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SKYWARN SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED.

WEATHER SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT ANY SIGNIFICANT OR
UNUSUAL CONDITIONS TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.

BEAN

Event by event

1 wildfire. Local standard time, as filed.

Wildfire, Tulare Cty Mtns

When: September 8, 12:00 AM PST to September 14, 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 2013 Every state in 2013 This day in weather history Warnings in California, September 2013

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: 510075.