High Wind, South Sjv
- When
- March 19, 6:49 AM PST to 3:15 PM PST
- Where
- South Sjv forecast zone
- Property damage
- $50,000
- Reported by
- FIRE DEPT/RESCUE SQUAD
High Wind in California, March 19, 1999
California Highway Patrol estimated winds gusting to 40 MPH knocked over several power poles west of Bakersfield, CA, in the vicinity of Rosedale around sunrise. Gusty wind was present over much of the extreme Southern San Joaquin Valley with fences and trees blown over in the hours starting near dawn into the early afternoon.
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $50,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 2
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 HNX wrote it up.
California Highway Patrol estimated winds gusting to 40 MPH knocked over several power poles west of Bakersfield, CA, in the vicinity of Rosedale around sunrise. Gusty wind was present over much of the extreme Southern San Joaquin Valley with fences and trees blown over in the hours starting near dawn into the early afternoon. In the Tehachapi Mountains, winds became gusty from 35 to 40 MPH just after midnight. But a gust of wind occurred to 48 MPH from the southeast at 0951 PST at Tejon and Interstate Highway-5 over the Ridge Route.
Event by event
2 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
High Wind, Kern Mtns
- When
- March 19, 9:31 AM PST to 6:00 PM PST
- Where
- Kern Mtns forecast zone
- Measured
- 48 kt (55 mph)
- Reported by
- AWOS,ASOS,MESONET,ETC
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
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: 5689172, 5689173.