The Sand Fire, which started in late July, was finally contained in early August. In total, the fire burned over 41,000 acres.
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.
The episode as NWS LOX wrote it up.
The Sand Fire, which started in late July, was finally contained in early August. In total, the fire burned over 41,000 acres.
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 Los Angeles, CA wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 31, 7:44 PM PST, 4 hours 16 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOS ANGELES/OXNARD CA 844 PM PDT SUN JUL 31 2016 .SYNOPSIS... Monsoonal moisture will bring a slight chance of afternoon thunderstorms to the San Gabriel Mountains and the Antelope Valley through Tuesday. Otherwise, night through morning low clouds and fog will continue to affect some coastal and valley areas through mid-week, with near normal temperatures in most places. Slight cooling is possible by late week as low pressure develops. && .UPDATE... An upper-level ridge of high pressure centered over Southern California remains in place this evening and will control the weather pattern early this week. A warm air mass with marginal moisture over the area will keep a slight chance of showers and thunderstorms over the Los Angeles County Mountains and the Antelope Valley through Monday and/or Tuesday. Onshore flow across will keep temperatures near seasonal normals into midweek. A slight tick up of temperatures should occur for early week as 500 mb heights climb and 1000-500 mb thickness values increase, otherwise minimal changes are expected over the 48-72 hours. No updates are planned at this time. && .PREV DISCUSSION... SHORT TERM...Synoptically, an elongated upper ridge across the SW will persist through Tuesday. The upper ridge will strengthen ever so slightly. At the surface, the LAX-DAG pressure gradients are expected to be relatively strong through Tue. The combination of slightly rising heights with a stronger onshore breeze should help High temps remain similar each day with only minor fluctuations through Wednesday. High temps will continue to be a few degrees above normal across interior areas as well. Over the next few days, the best monsoonal moisture and convective parameters will remain to the east and south of the forecast area. However there is a tongue of mid level moisture that does reach the San Gabriel Mtns and Antelope Valley each afternoon through Tuesday. There should be enough instability over LA county mtns/Antelope Valley to keep slight chance pops in the forecast each afternoon. .LONG TERM...EC/GFS continues to be in good agreement showing The upper lvl ridge beginning to shift eastward by Thursday as an upper level trough digs south across the Eastern Pacific towards the west coast. This will shunt any chance of monsoonal moisture over the forecast area through the following weekend. A cooling trend is expected to begin Thursday and continue through Friday with temps likely down to below normal levels by Friday through at least Saturday. Another trough will then rotate over the region and linger into Sat. Expect the marine layer to be rather deep for early August, with night through morning low clouds in coastal and most valley locations. && .AVIATION...01/0000Z. At 00Z, the marine layer depth at KLAX was around 1200 feet deep. The top of the inversion was near 2750 feet with a temperature of 24 degrees Celsius. Moderate to high confidence in the current forecast, except low to moderate confidence in Los Angeles County Valley terminals. Coastal terminals will see mainly in IFR to MVFR category, likely deteriorating to LIFR north of Point Conception between 06Z and 15Z. KLAX...MVFR conditions will spread in between 03Z and 06Z. Conditions should remain MVFR but there is a 40 percent chance of IFR conditions with an earlier arrival than forecast. VFR conditions should develop around 17Z, but there is a 20 percent chance that MVFR conditions could linger until 20Z. KBUR...There is a 60 percent chance of IFR conditions between 10Z and 16Z. VFR conditions should develop between 15Z and 16Z. && .MARINE...31/900 PM. Conditions will remain below Small Craft Advisory criteria through at least Wednesday morning. Wind gusts over the outer waters may strengthen to above advisory criteria by the late afternoon Wednesday. Patchy dense fog will impact the coastal waters through much of the week...primarily in the overnight and morning hours. && .LOX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... CA...NONE. PZ...NONE. && PUBLIC...Hall AVIATION...Hall MARINE...Smith SYNOPSIS...Sukup weather.gov/losangeles
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOS ANGELES/OXNARD CA 600 AM PDT SUN JUL 31 2016 CAZ034>041-044>046-051>054-059-087-088-547-548-011300- SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY CENTRAL COAST- SANTA BARBARA COUNTY CENTRAL COAST-SANTA YNEZ VALLEY- SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY INTERIOR VALLEYS-CUYAMA VALLEY- SANTA BARBARA COUNTY SOUTH COAST-VENTURA COUNTY COAST- LOS ANGELES COUNTY COAST INCLUDING DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES- VENTURA COUNTY INTERIOR VALLEYS-VENTURA COUNTY COASTAL VALLEYS- SANTA MONICA MOUNTAINS RECREATIONAL AREA- SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY MOUNTAINS- SANTA BARBARA COUNTY MOUNTAINS-VENTURA COUNTY MOUNTAINS- LOS ANGELES COUNTY MOUNTAINS EXCLUDING THE SANTA MONICA RANGE- ANTELOPE VALLEY-CATALINA ISLAND-SANTA CLARITA VALLEY- LOS ANGELES COUNTY SAN FERNANDO VALLEY- LOS ANGELES COUNTY SAN GABRIEL VALLEY- 600 AM PDT SUN JUL 31 2016 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHWESTERN CALIFORNIA. .DAY ONE... TODAY PATCHY DENSE FOG WILL REDUCE VISIBILITIES TO ONE QUARTER MILE OR LESS ON THE CENTRAL COAST...IN THE SANTA YNEZ VALLEY AND THE VENTURA COUNTY VALLEYS THROUGH MID MORNING. THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE IN THE MOUNTAINS AND DESERTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.
1 wildfire. Local standard time, as filed.
The Sand Fire burned 41,432 acres in the mountains of Los Angeles county, just above the Santa Clarita Valley. The fire started in late July and was not contained until |mid-August.
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