Thursday, September 12, 2019

[CaliforniaDisasters] On This Date In California Weather History (September 12)

2010: The Canyon wildfire occurred in Sequoia National Forest and the ignition date was 9/12/10 at 1354 PDT.
The cause was by human activity.
The location was 8 miles West of Lake Isabella, CA (Kern County).
The size was 9,820 acres.
Containment was achieved on 9/19/10 at 1800 PDT.
There were no fatalities.
There was 1 primary structure lost.
The cost to containment was $11,250,000.

2004: The Old Highway Fire was a man-caused fire that burned 1,347 acres in the Southern Sierra Nevada Foothills at Mariposa.
There were no fatalities, injuries, or structures lost. The cost to suppress the fire was $3 million.

1999: Large hail fell over Interstate 15 near Baker, CA.
Numerous cars reportedly sustained dents and broken windshields.

1979:
Low temperature of 75° F at Bakersfield.
This was one of 5 times this month the low temperature in Bakersfield never fell below 75° F, a record for the month of September.

1976: Record rains that started on 9.9 ended on this day came from Tropical Storm Kathleen (called a 160+ year event by meteorologists).
14.76" fell on south slopes of Mt. San Gorgonio, 10.13" at Mt. Laguna, 8" at Mt. San Jacinto, 4"+ in the Little San Bernardino Mountains, and 1.8"-2.8" in the Coachella Valley.
Deep Canyon (above La Quinta) recorded 2.96" in three hours on 9.10.
Rainfall in the Santa Rosa Mountains above the Coachella Valley was called the "heaviest in recorded history."
6 were buried and killed in sand in Ocotillo.
Floods of record were attained at numerous streams around the Coachella Valley.
1.84" of rain fell in Riverside on this day, 2.09" fell in Borrego Springs, 2.33" fell in Victorville, 2.57" fell in Idyllwild, and 5" fell in Palomar Mountain, each the greatest daily amounts on record for September.
The Victorville amount is also the third highest daily amount on record.
This occurred during the El Niño of 1976-77.
Hurricane Kathleen also brought the southwest the highest sustained winds ever associated with an eastern Pacific tropical cyclone with sustained winds of 57 mph at Yuma on 9.10.

1971: A strong ridge of high pressure over the Western U.S.brought a heat wave to the region.
It was 120° F in Palm Springs, 113° F in Riverside, 108° F in Escondido, 105° F in Santa Ana, and 103° F in L.A.
It was 100° F in Palomar Mountain, the highest temperature on record, for three consecutive days.
The century mark has been equaled only on five other occasions.  

1939: The remnants from the second of three tropical cyclones to affect the southwestern U.S. in one month brought 3.84" of rain to Searchlight , NV, making it the second wettest day ever here.

1939: 4" of rain fell across the deserts and mountains as a dying tropical cyclone moved across Baja California into southwestern Arizona on 9.11 and on this day.
This was the second tropical cyclone to impact California during the busy month of September 1939.
A strong El Niño contributed to the activity.

1935: The high temperature at Carson City, NV was 100° F.

1918: Los Gatos received 4.35" of rain.

Source: NWS San Francisco/Monterey, Hanford, Reno, Las Vegas, & San Diego
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