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High Wind Watches in California, 2021

49 high wind watches in 2021. 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 2021. Tap one for its archive.

High Wind Watches
49
Busiest month
January13 high wind watches
Busiest day
December 12, 20214 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 2, 2:29 PM PSTHigh Wind WatchEKADel Norte, Humboldt, Lake, Mendocino13 hr
Jan 15, 3:42 AM PSTHigh Wind WatchMTR23 hr
Jan 15, 1:20 PM PSTHigh Wind WatchSTO48 hr
Jan 16, 2:02 PM PSTHigh Wind WatchREVAlpine, El Dorado, Lassen, Mono, Nevada, Placer and 2 more24 hr
Jan 16, 4:08 PM PSTHigh Wind WatchHNX21 hr
Jan 16, 6:33 PM PSTHigh Wind WatchSGXOrange, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Diego42 hr
Jan 16, 6:42 PM PSTHigh Wind WatchLOXLos Angeles33 hr
Jan 23, 9:10 PM PSTHigh Wind WatchLOX17 hr
Jan 25, 2:15 AM PSTHigh Wind WatchSTO13 hr
Jan 25, 2:55 AM PSTHigh Wind WatchMTRAlameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Monterey, Napa, San Benito and 5 more12 hr
Jan 26, 3:33 AM PSTHigh Wind WatchLOX11 hr
Jan 29, 2:43 AM PSTHigh Wind WatchMFRSiskiyou37 hr
Jan 29, 2:13 PM PSTHigh Wind WatchMFRModoc49 hr
Feb 11, 2:28 AM PSTHigh Wind WatchVEFInyo, San Bernardino35 hr
Feb 11, 2:48 AM PSTHigh Wind WatchHNX41 hr
Feb 12, 2:17 AM PSTHigh Wind WatchSGXRiverside, San Bernardino, San Diego11 hr
Feb 12, 5:33 AM PSTHigh Wind WatchLOX23 hr
Feb 23, 12:01 PM PSTHigh Wind WatchLOXLos Angeles15 hr
Feb 23, 12:06 PM PSTHigh Wind WatchSGXOrange, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Diego14 hr
Feb 24, 12:46 PM PSTHigh Wind WatchMFRModoc26 hr
Feb 26, 3:13 AM PSTHigh Wind WatchLOXLos Angeles24 hr
Feb 26, 3:44 AM PSTHigh Wind WatchSGXOrange, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Diego23 hr
Feb 27, 3:30 AM PSTHigh Wind WatchLOX10 hr
Mar 2, 2:33 PM PSTHigh Wind WatchMFRSiskiyou24 hr
Mar 5, 10:17 AM PSTHigh Wind WatchREVMono6 hr
Mar 7, 1:46 PM PSTHigh Wind WatchREVMono14 hr
Mar 13, 12:36 PM PSTHigh Wind WatchVEFSan Bernardino13 hr
Mar 13, 1:55 PM PSTHigh Wind WatchSGXRiverside, San Bernardino, San Diego12 hr
Apr 4, 1:43 AM PDTHigh Wind WatchSGXRiverside, San Bernardino, San Diego12 hr
Apr 6, 2:16 PM PDTHigh Wind WatchLOX37 hr
Apr 12, 2:57 AM PDTHigh Wind WatchVEFInyo, San Bernardino11 hr
Jun 8, 2:16 AM PDTHigh Wind WatchVEFInyo11 hr
Oct 8, 1:35 PM PDTHigh Wind WatchHNXFresno, Kern, Kings, Madera, Mariposa, Merced and 1 more48 hr
Oct 8, 2:07 PM PDTHigh Wind WatchSTO37 hr
Oct 9, 1:16 AM PDTHigh Wind WatchVEFInyo, San Bernardino25 hr
Oct 9, 12:17 PM PDTHigh Wind WatchSGXSan Bernardino15 hr
Oct 9, 2:08 PM PDTHigh Wind WatchLOX26 hr
Nov 2, 2:48 AM PDTHigh Wind WatchMFRModoc10 hr
Nov 6, 3:14 AM PDTHigh Wind WatchMFRModoc, Siskiyou23 hr
Nov 7, 1:23 AM PSTHigh Wind WatchREVMono25 hr
Nov 23, 2:24 PM PSTHigh Wind WatchLOXLos Angeles24 hr
Nov 24, 3:29 AM PSTHigh Wind WatchSGXSan Diego9 hr
Dec 9, 2:17 PM PSTHigh Wind WatchMFRModoc14 hr
Dec 12, 2:37 AM PSTHigh Wind WatchLOXSanta Barbara25 hr
Dec 12, 3:00 AM PSTHigh Wind WatchSGXSan Bernardino, San Diego25 hr
Dec 12, 12:30 PM PSTHigh Wind WatchHNXKern14 hr
Dec 12, 1:15 PM PSTHigh Wind WatchPSRImperial24 hr
Dec 13, 6:05 PM PSTHigh Wind WatchEKADel Norte18 hr
Dec 24, 2:28 PM PSTHigh Wind WatchREVModoc12 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. December 12, 20214high wind watches
  2. January 17, 20213high wind watches
  3. October 9, 20213high wind watches
  4. January 15, 20212high wind watches
  5. January 25, 20212high wind watches
  6. January 29, 20212high wind watches
  7. February 11, 20212high wind watches
  8. February 12, 20212high wind watches
  9. February 23, 20212high wind watches
  10. February 26, 20212high wind watches
  11. March 13, 20212high wind watches
  12. October 8, 20212high 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. Rebuilt daily.