High Wind, Redwood Coast
- When
- April 23, 2:00 AM PST to 8:00 PM PST
- Where
- Redwood Coast forecast zone
High Wind in California, April 23, 1996
Wind gusts with a strong Pacific cold front reached 50 mph at Bunker Hill (9am PDT), 45 mph at Trinidad Head (9am), 56 mph at Cooskie Mountain (3pm) and 61 mph at Maple Creek at 3pm.
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 1
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
What happened
The episode as NWS EKA wrote it up.
Wind gusts with a strong Pacific cold front reached 50 mph at Bunker Hill (9am PDT), 45 mph at Trinidad Head (9am), 56 mph at Cooskie Mountain (3pm) and 61 mph at Maple Creek at 3pm.
Event by event
1 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- High Wind
- Sustained non-thunderstorm winds of 40 mph or more for an hour, or gusts of 58 mph or more.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
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- High Wind in Maryland, April 23, 1996
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- Damaging Wind in Pennsylvania, April 23, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Virginia, April 23, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Kentucky, April 23, 1996
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- Flash Flood in Washington, April 23, 1996
- Damaging Wind in West Virginia, April 23, 1996
More
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Sources
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5546641.