High Wind, Redwood Coast
- When
- December 26, 7:00 AM PST to 5:00 PM PST
- Where
- Redwood Coast forecast zone
- Measured
- 63 kt (72 mph)
High Wind in California, December 26, 1996
73 mph wind at Cooskie Mountain and 51 mph at Trinidad Head.
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.
73 mph wind at Cooskie Mountain and 51 mph at Trinidad Head.
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
- Heavy Snow in Washington, December 26, 1996
- Flooding in Oregon, December 26 to 31, 1996
- Heavy Rain in Nevada, December 26 to 27, 1996
- Winter Weather in New York, December 26 to 27, 1996
- Flooding in Washington, December 26 to 31, 1996
- Heavy Snow in Washington, December 26 to 29, 1996
- High Wind in Colorado, December 26 to 27, 1996
- Ice Storm in Oregon, December 26 to 27, 1996
- Ice Storm in Washington, December 26 to 27, 1996
- Winter Storm in California, December 26 to 27, 1996
- Ice Storm in Washington, December 26, 1996
- High Wind in Wyoming, December 26, 1996
More
Every storm in California in 1996Every state in 1996This day in weather historyWarnings in California, December 1996
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: 5582720.