High Wind, Redwood Coast
- When
- December 28, 5:00 PM PST to December 29, 7:00 PM PST
- Where
- Redwood Coast forecast zone
- Measured
- 92 kt (106 mph)
High Wind in California, December 28 to 29, 1996
Numerous trees and power lines were downed in high winds. Cooskie Mountain reached a peak gust 106 mph at 606 am on the 29th.
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.
Numerous trees and power lines were downed in high winds. Cooskie Mountain reached a peak gust 106 mph at 606 am on the 29th. Some other speeds: 46 mph at Eureka NWS office, 65 mph 5E Eureka, 56 mph Orick, 45 mph 7S Honeydew.
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 28 to 30, 1996
- Heavy Snow in Washington, December 28 to 29, 1996
- Dense Fog in Florida, December 28, 1996
- High Surf in Hawaii, December 28 to 29, 1996
- Winter Storm in Idaho, December 28 to 29, 1996
- Heavy Snow in Montana, December 28, 1996
- Heavy Snow in Washington, December 28 to 29, 1996
- High Wind in Oregon, December 28, 1996
- Heavy Snow in Montana, December 28, 1996
- Heavy Snow in Montana, December 28, 1996
- Heavy Snow in Montana, December 28, 1996
- Heavy Snow in Montana, December 28, 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: 5582721.