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High Wind Watches in California, 2020

44 high wind watches in 2020. 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 2020. Tap one for its archive.

High Wind Watches
44
Busiest month
January15 high wind watches
Busiest day
January 31, 20205 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 1, 2:18 PM PSTHigh Wind WatchMFRModoc, Siskiyou24 hr
Jan 3, 4:12 AM PSTHigh Wind WatchLOX33 hr
Jan 3, 1:00 PM PSTHigh Wind WatchSGXOrange, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Diego24 hr
Jan 11, 11:48 AM PSTHigh Wind WatchREVMono25 hr
Jan 12, 2:50 AM PSTHigh Wind WatchVEFInyo25 hr
Jan 13, 2:02 PM PSTHigh Wind WatchMFRSiskiyou24 hr
Jan 14, 3:25 AM PSTHigh Wind WatchREVLassen, Modoc, Plumas, Sierra25 hr
Jan 19, 2:59 AM PSTHigh Wind WatchMFRSiskiyou10 hr
Jan 27, 12:01 PM PSTHigh Wind WatchLOXLos Angeles21 hr
Jan 27, 8:09 PM PSTHigh Wind WatchSGXOrange, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Diego17 hr
Jan 31, 12:31 PM PSTHigh Wind WatchMTRAlameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Monterey, Napa, San Benito and 5 more25 hr
Jan 31, 12:41 PM PSTHigh Wind WatchHNX25 hr
Jan 31, 2:12 PM PSTHigh Wind WatchLOXLos Angeles26 hr
Jan 31, 2:59 PM PSTHigh Wind WatchEKAMendocino92 min
Jan 31, 3:01 PM PSTHigh Wind WatchSGXRiverside, San Bernardino, San Diego22 hr
Feb 1, 2:47 AM PSTHigh Wind WatchVEFInyo, San Bernardino11 hr
Feb 3, 4:15 AM PSTHigh Wind WatchSGXOrange, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Diego9 hr
Feb 7, 2:31 AM PSTHigh Wind WatchMTRAlameda, Contra Costa, Marin, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz and 1 more10 hr
Feb 10, 4:36 AM PSTHigh Wind WatchLOX5 hr
Feb 29, 3:22 AM PSTHigh Wind WatchHNX10 hr
Mar 1, 11:48 AM PSTHigh Wind WatchSGXOrange, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Diego14 hr
Mar 11, 1:53 PM PDTHigh Wind WatchREVAlpine, El Dorado, Nevada, Placer24 hr
Apr 21, 11:21 AM PDTHigh Wind WatchLOX22 hr
May 4, 2:45 PM PDTHigh Wind WatchLOX19 hr
May 16, 2:41 AM PDTHigh Wind WatchVEFInyo11 hr
Jun 10, 1:51 PM PDTHigh Wind WatchREVMono21 hr
Sep 6, 1:35 AM PDTHigh Wind WatchVEFSan Bernardino38 hr
Oct 23, 2:41 AM PDTHigh Wind WatchMTRAlameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, City and County of San Francisco, San Mateo and 3 more23 hr
Oct 23, 12:08 PM PDTHigh Wind WatchEKAHumboldt, Lake, Mendocino, Trinity24 hr
Oct 23, 1:38 PM PDTHigh Wind WatchSGXOrange, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Diego24 hr
Oct 23, 2:16 PM PDTHigh Wind WatchLOXLos Angeles23 hr
Oct 25, 3:40 AM PDTHigh Wind WatchLOXLos Angeles21 hr
Nov 11, 2:59 AM PSTHigh Wind WatchMFRModoc, Siskiyou23 hr
Nov 11, 1:15 PM PSTHigh Wind WatchREVLassen, Modoc, Plumas, Sierra13 hr
Nov 15, 3:50 AM PSTHigh Wind WatchMFRModoc, Siskiyou19 hr
Nov 15, 11:31 AM PSTHigh Wind WatchREVAlpine, El Dorado, Mono, Nevada, Placer24 hr
Nov 16, 10:23 AM PSTHigh Wind WatchVEFInyo24 hr
Nov 25, 2:04 PM PSTHigh Wind WatchLOXLos Angeles13 hr
Dec 1, 12:12 PM PSTHigh Wind WatchSGXOrange, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Diego15 hr
Dec 1, 2:20 PM PSTHigh Wind WatchLOXLos Angeles19 hr
Dec 5, 12:17 PM PSTHigh Wind WatchHNX14 hr
Dec 5, 2:10 PM PSTHigh Wind WatchLOX24 hr
Dec 6, 1:11 PM PSTHigh Wind WatchSGXOrange, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Diego15 hr
Dec 23, 2:38 PM PSTHigh Wind WatchMFRSiskiyou11 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 31, 20205high wind watches
  2. October 23, 20204high wind watches
  3. January 3, 20202high wind watches
  4. November 11, 20202high wind watches
  5. November 15, 20202high wind watches
  6. December 1, 20202high wind watches
  7. December 5, 20202high wind watches
  8. January 1, 20201high wind watches
  9. January 11, 20201high wind watches
  10. January 12, 20201high wind watches
  11. January 13, 20201high wind watches
  12. January 14, 20201high 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.