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High Wind Watches in California, 2022

46 high wind watches in 2022. 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 2022. Tap one for its archive.

High Wind Watches
46
Busiest month
December9 high wind watches
Busiest day
January 20, 20223 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, 1:09 PM PSTHigh Wind WatchREVAlpine, El Dorado, Lassen, Modoc, Nevada, Placer and 2 more25 hr
Jan 20, 1:33 AM PSTHigh Wind WatchHNXFresno, Madera, Mariposa, Tuolumne8 hr
Jan 20, 2:45 AM PSTHigh Wind WatchLOXLos Angeles9 hr
Jan 20, 3:26 AM PSTHigh Wind WatchSGXOrange, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Diego10 hr
Jan 26, 12:41 PM PSTHigh Wind WatchSGXSan Diego14 hr
Jan 31, 3:10 AM PSTHigh Wind WatchMTRAlameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, City and County of San Francisco, San Mateo and 3 more11 hr
Feb 1, 3:20 AM PSTHigh Wind WatchLOX11 hr
Feb 3, 2:27 AM PSTHigh Wind WatchLOXLos Angeles10 hr
Feb 13, 1:15 PM PSTHigh Wind WatchSGXRiverside, San Diego13 hr
Feb 14, 1:08 AM PSTHigh Wind WatchHNXFresno, Kern, Madera, Mariposa, Tulare, Tuolumne23 hr
Feb 16, 2:39 AM PSTHigh Wind WatchLOX7 hr
Feb 20, 2:02 AM PSTHigh Wind WatchSGXRiverside, San Bernardino, San Diego25 hr
Mar 9, 3:05 AM PSTHigh Wind WatchLOX11 hr
Mar 10, 12:53 PM PSTHigh Wind WatchMFRModoc26 hr
Mar 12, 1:33 AM PSTHigh Wind WatchVEFInyo11 hr
Mar 18, 9:26 PM PDTHigh Wind WatchLOX17 hr
Mar 19, 1:08 AM PDTHigh Wind WatchHNXFresno, Madera, Mariposa, Tulare, Tuolumne12 hr
Apr 2, 2:18 AM PDTHigh Wind WatchMFRModoc11 hr
Apr 3, 2:18 PM PDTHigh Wind WatchLOX13 hr
Apr 8, 2:21 AM PDTHigh Wind WatchREVMono48 hr
Apr 8, 12:10 PM PDTHigh Wind WatchVEFInyo, San Bernardino39 hr
Apr 10, 2:38 AM PDTHigh Wind WatchLOXLos Angeles, Santa Barbara, Ventura25 hr
Apr 10, 3:24 AM PDTHigh Wind WatchSGXRiverside, San Bernardino, San Diego10 hr
May 6, 1:38 PM PDTHigh Wind WatchVEFInyo, San Bernardino23 hr
May 6, 2:09 PM PDTHigh Wind WatchREVMono24 hr
May 11, 1:14 PM PDTHigh Wind WatchLOXSanta Barbara, Ventura14 hr
May 15, 1:53 PM PDTHigh Wind WatchLOXSanta Barbara15 hr
Jun 12, 3:55 AM PDTHigh Wind WatchLOXSanta Barbara, Ventura24 hr
Jun 12, 8:36 AM PDTHigh Wind WatchHNXKern18 hr
Sep 7, 1:50 PM PDTHigh Wind WatchSGXRiverside, San Bernardino, San Diego24 hr
Oct 20, 1:15 PM PDTHigh Wind WatchSGXRiverside, San Bernardino, San Diego15 hr
Nov 6, 1:06 PM PSTHigh Wind WatchSGXSan Bernardino24 hr
Nov 6, 1:44 PM PSTHigh Wind WatchLOXSan Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara23 hr
Nov 13, 12:53 PM PSTHigh Wind WatchSGXOrange, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Diego25 hr
Nov 13, 1:50 PM PSTHigh Wind WatchLOXLos Angeles, Ventura24 hr
Nov 17, 8:11 PM PSTHigh Wind WatchLOXLos Angeles9 hr
Nov 22, 4:24 AM PSTHigh Wind WatchLOXLos Angeles, Ventura23 hr
Dec 7, 3:50 AM PSTHigh Wind WatchMFRModoc, Siskiyou41 hr
Dec 9, 2:50 AM PSTHigh Wind WatchSGXRiverside, San Bernardino, San Diego11 hr
Dec 9, 4:53 AM PSTHigh Wind WatchLOXSan Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara23 hr
Dec 24, 12:51 PM PSTHigh Wind WatchSTO42 hr
Dec 24, 1:30 PM PSTHigh Wind WatchREVAlpine, El Dorado, Lassen, Modoc, Mono, Nevada and 3 more24 hr
Dec 24, 1:45 PM PSTHigh Wind WatchMFRModoc, Siskiyou25 hr
Dec 25, 2:07 AM PSTHigh Wind WatchEKADel Norte, Humboldt12 hr
Dec 30, 2:06 AM PSTHigh Wind WatchSGXSan Bernardino19 hr
Dec 30, 2:41 AM PSTHigh Wind WatchLOXSan Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara11 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 20, 20223high wind watches
  2. December 24, 20223high wind watches
  3. March 19, 20222high wind watches
  4. April 8, 20222high wind watches
  5. April 10, 20222high wind watches
  6. May 6, 20222high wind watches
  7. June 12, 20222high wind watches
  8. November 6, 20222high wind watches
  9. November 13, 20222high wind watches
  10. December 9, 20222high wind watches
  11. December 30, 20222high wind watches
  12. January 1, 20221high 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.