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High Wind Watches in California, 2018

34 high wind watches in 2018. 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 watches reaches back to 2005.

High Wind Watches by county

Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2018. Tap one for its archive.

High Wind Watches
34
Busiest month
April11 high wind watches
Busiest day
January 7, 20182 high wind watches

Over time

By month

The alerts

Every alert, in the order issued. Times are local, Pacific Time. Each opens its own page with the text, the map, the radar and the sounding.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 6, 1:25 PM PSTHigh Wind WatchHNX21 hr
Jan 6, 6:34 PM PSTHigh Wind WatchLOXSanta Barbara48 hr
Jan 6, 8:36 PM PSTHigh Wind WatchSGXRiverside, San Bernardino, San Diego24 hr
Jan 15, 1:04 PM PSTHigh Wind WatchMFRSiskiyou26 hr
Jan 16, 2:25 PM PSTHigh Wind WatchREVMono24 hr
Jan 19, 11:37 AM PSTHigh Wind WatchMFRSiskiyou16 hr
Jan 22, 2:28 AM PSTHigh Wind WatchMFRSiskiyou13 hr
Feb 10, 2:44 AM PSTHigh Wind WatchLOX11 hr
Mar 5, 1:47 PM PSTHigh Wind WatchMFRSiskiyou38 hr
Mar 10, 2:33 PM PSTHigh Wind WatchMFRSiskiyou23 hr
Apr 4, 2:49 PM PDTHigh Wind WatchMFRModoc24 hr
Apr 9, 12:56 PM PDTHigh Wind WatchSGXRiverside, San Bernardino, San Diego25 hr
Apr 9, 2:22 PM PDTHigh Wind WatchVEFInyo, San Bernardino26 hr
Apr 10, 9:38 AM PDTHigh Wind WatchLOX17 hr
Apr 10, 11:50 AM PDTHigh Wind WatchHNX16 hr
Apr 11, 3:03 AM PDTHigh Wind WatchLOX12 hr
Apr 11, 3:11 PM PDTHigh Wind WatchLOX12 hr
Apr 14, 1:18 PM PDTHigh Wind WatchSGXRiverside, San Bernardino, San Diego24 hr
Apr 14, 1:51 PM PDTHigh Wind WatchVEFSan Bernardino24 hr
Apr 15, 3:15 AM PDTHigh Wind WatchHNX18 hr
Apr 15, 4:32 AM PDTHigh Wind WatchLOX17 hr
May 9, 2:49 AM PDTHigh Wind WatchMTRSan Mateo, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz26 hr
Oct 13, 2:01 PM PDTHigh Wind WatchLOX21 hr
Oct 14, 3:17 AM PDTHigh Wind WatchSGXOrange, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Diego11 hr
Nov 20, 2:54 PM PSTHigh Wind WatchMFRModoc, Siskiyou25 hr
Nov 21, 3:37 AM PSTHigh Wind WatchREVAlpine, El Dorado, Lassen, Modoc, Nevada, Placer and 2 more25 hr
Nov 21, 2:19 PM PSTHigh Wind WatchEKADel Norte, Humboldt, Mendocino13 hr
Nov 27, 12:29 PM PSTHigh Wind WatchMTRAlameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Monterey, City and County of San Francisco, San Mateo and 3 more24 hr
Dec 12, 3:20 AM PSTHigh Wind WatchMFRModoc, Siskiyou35 hr
Dec 13, 3:23 AM PSTHigh Wind WatchREVAlpine, El Dorado, Lassen, Modoc, Mono, Nevada and 3 more11 hr
Dec 15, 5:10 AM PSTHigh Wind WatchMFRSiskiyou9 hr
Dec 16, 4:13 AM PSTHigh Wind WatchMFRModoc33 hr
Dec 23, 2:57 PM PSTHigh Wind WatchLOX23 hr
Dec 29, 1:15 PM PSTHigh Wind WatchMTRSan Mateo, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz13 hr

By county

Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. January 7, 20182high wind watches
  2. April 9, 20182high wind watches
  3. April 10, 20182high wind watches
  4. April 11, 20182high wind watches
  5. April 14, 20182high wind watches
  6. April 15, 20182high wind watches
  7. November 21, 20182high wind watches
  8. January 6, 20181high wind watches
  9. January 15, 20181high wind watches
  10. January 16, 20181high wind watches
  11. January 19, 20181high wind watches
  12. January 22, 20181high wind watches

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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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.