High Wind, Northern San Joaquin Valley
- When
- January 16, 2:00 PM PST to 11:00 PM PST
- Where
- Northern San Joaquin Valley forecast zone
- Property damage
- $10,000
High Wind in California, January 16, 1996
A cold front moving through San Bernadino County produced gusty winds which caused property damage in Barstow including downed power poles, tattered signs and broken windows.
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $10,000
- 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 VEF wrote it up.
A cold front moving through San Bernadino County produced gusty winds which caused property damage in Barstow including downed power poles, tattered signs and broken windows.
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
- Winter Weather in Wisconsin, January 16, 1996
- Blizzard in Wyoming, January 16 to 18, 1996
- Winter Weather in Wisconsin, January 16, 1996
- Heavy Snow in Wyoming, January 16 to 17, 1996
- Blizzard in Nebraska, January 16 to 18, 1996
- Blizzard in Wyoming, January 16 to 18, 1996
- Ice Storm in Oregon, January 16, 1996 to January 18, 1997
- Heavy Snow in Oregon, January 16, 1996
- Heavy Snow in Montana, January 16 to 17, 1996
- High Wind in California, January 16 to 17, 1996
- Ice Storm in Washington, January 16 to 17, 1996
- High Wind in Nevada, January 16, 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: 5536198.