High Wind Warnings in California
1,441 high wind warnings since 1986. An alert counts here when it covered any part of the state, so the counties below add up to more than the state. The archive of high wind warnings reaches back to 2005.
High Wind Warnings by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.
- High Wind Warnings
- 1,441
- Busiest year
- 201285 high wind warnings
- Average year
- 66over 22 years on file
Over time
By year
Before late 2005 the archive holds only tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings, and from 1997 SPC's watches, so the jump that year is the archive widening, not the weather.
By month of the year
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- San Bernardino County326
- Riverside County232
- San Diego County220
- Modoc County149
- Siskiyou County148
- Inyo County148
- Los Angeles County127
- Orange County115
- Mono County83
- Santa Barbara County73
- Kern County54
- Ventura County47
- San Mateo County38
- Santa Cruz County38
- Monterey County36
- Lassen County36
- Plumas County36
- Sierra County36
- Del Norte County33
- Santa Clara County32
- Marin County32
- Sonoma County32
- Alpine County28
- El Dorado County28
- Nevada County28
- Placer County28
- Humboldt County28
- City and County of San Francisco27
- San Benito County23
- San Luis Obispo County22
- Alameda County20
- Contra Costa County20
- Imperial County19
- Fresno County16
- Napa County13
- Mendocino County12
- Kings County10
- Merced County10
- Tulare County9
- Madera County6
4 more counties
The latest high wind warnings
The most recent on file, newest first.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 15, 11:56 PM PDT | High Wind Warning | VEF | Inyo, San Bernardino | 59 hr |
| May 15, 12:21 PM PDT | High Wind Warning | LOX | Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, Ventura | 45 hr |
| May 15, 11:17 AM PDT | High Wind Warning | HNX | Kern | 60 hr |
| Apr 20, 1:43 PM PDT | High Wind Warning | MFR | Siskiyou | 4 hr |
| Apr 20, 10:32 AM PDT | High Wind Warning | VEF | Inyo | 36 hr |
| Apr 2, 11:18 AM PDT | High Wind Warning | LOX | Los Angeles, Ventura | 31 hr |
| Mar 31, 9:51 PM PDT | High Wind Warning | HNX | Kern | 62 hr |
| Mar 31, 10:35 AM PDT | High Wind Warning | REV | Lassen, Mono, Plumas, Sierra | 48 hr |
| Mar 5, 12:25 PM PST | High Wind Warning | LOX | Los Angeles, Ventura | 51 hr |
| Mar 4, 12:07 AM PST | High Wind Warning | LOX | Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, Ventura | 33 hr |
| Feb 20, 10:34 AM PST | High Wind Warning | EKA | Del Norte, Humboldt | 47 hr |
| Feb 18, 1:12 PM PST | High Wind Warning | LOX | Los Angeles, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara | 32 hr |
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Sources
National Weather Service watches, warnings, advisories and statements from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's VTEC archive, which reconstructs tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings back to 1986 from the NWS text archive. Storm Prediction Center watches and mesoscale discussions from SPC's archive through the Mesonet. County centers from the US Census Bureau. Rebuilt daily.