SANTA CLARA

912905 · 37.450, -122.150

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Event typeevent_type	Lightning
NOAA NCEI event IDncei_event_id	912,905
Episode IDepisode_id	150,658
Begin UTCbegin_utc	2020-08-16T12:00:00+00:00
End UTCend_utc	2020-08-16T12:30:00+00:00
Statestate	CALIFORNIA
County/zone typecz_type	C
County/zone namecz_name	SANTA CLARA
Latitudelat	37.450
Longitudelon	-122.150
End latitudeend_lat	37.450
End longitudeend_lon	-122.150
Deaths directdeaths_direct	0
Deaths indirectdeaths_indirect	0
Injuries directinjuries_direct	0
Injuries indirectinjuries_indirect	0
Damage propertydamage_property	0.00K
Damage cropsdamage_crops	0.00K
Weather forecast office sourcewfo_source	Newspaper
Episode narrativeepisode_narrative	A prolonged and oppressive heat wave swept the Central Coast and Bay Area for almost a week from August 14th to August 19th with widespread record breaking temperatures observed across the region. This was caused by a strong high pressure system over the Desert Southwest that expanded westward into California. This dome of heat brought hot temperatures to the area for several days. Multiple days of triple digit afternoon highs were recorded inland with some coastal locations even reaching the mid 90s. Several days of hot and dry weather further dried fuels over the area increasing fire danger. During this event, a surge of monsoonal and tropical moisture from a former Tropical Storm advected northward with sufficient instability to generate multiple high based and dry thunderstorms that produced several thousand lightning strikes over the Greater Bay Area. Many locations saw wind gusts of 40-50 mph with isolated areas seeing gusts of 60-75 mph. This prompted the San Francisco Bay Area forecast office to issue a rare severe thunderstorm warning. These lightning strikes in combination with gusty and erratic outflow winds sparked hundreds of wildfires across the state of California. Several smaller fires combined to form complexes some of which are now among the largest wildfires in state history. Most of which were still actively burning at the end of August. Hundreds of thousands of acres have been burned with several hundred structures destroyed as well as a handful of deaths and injuries. Tens of thousands of residents were also forced to evacuate. Additionally, all of these wildfires burning simultaneously across the state gave the Bay Area the worst air quality in the world at one point.
Event narrativeevent_narrative	Lightning struck a utility pole in Palo Alto early Sunday morning causing a small fire and causing about 4,500 customers to lose power https://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/2020/08/16/storm-brings-fires-power-outages-to-the-bay-area.
Yearyear	2,020

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