High Wind, Redwood Coast
- When
- January 25, 12:00 AM PST to January 26, 2:00 AM PST
- Where
- Redwood Coast forecast zone
- Measured
- 63 kt (72 mph)
High Wind in California, January 25 to 26, 1997
Two surges of strong winds accompanied flood inducing rains. The first period occurred as the storm just began to reach shore.
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.
Two surges of strong winds accompanied flood inducing rains. The first period occurred as the storm just began to reach shore. Cooskie Mountain reported a peak gust of 72 mph at 3 am 1/26. The wind subsided for a while during the middle of the day before increasing in the evening. Cooskie Mountain again reached a peak gust of 72 mph at 5 pm 1/26
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 Storm in Utah, January 25 to 27, 1997
- Heavy Snow in Colorado, January 25 to 26, 1997
- Flash Flooding in California, January 25, 1997
- Heavy Snow in New Mexico, January 25 to 27, 1997
- Heavy Snow in Michigan, January 25 to 26, 1997
- Heavy Snow in Montana, January 25 to 26, 1997
- Heavy Snow in Wisconsin, January 25, 1997
- Flooding in Nevada, January 25 to 26, 1997
- Heavy Snow in Wyoming, January 25 to 26, 1997
- Heavy Snow in Colorado, January 25 to 26, 1997
- Hail in Georgia, January 25, 1997
- Hail in Georgia, January 25, 1997
More
Every storm in California in 1997Every state in 1997This day in weather historyWarnings in California, January 1997
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 2026-09-30. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5586481.