High Wind, Northern Sacramento Valley
- When
- March 2, 3:55 PM PST to 11:55 PM PST
- Where
- Northern Sacramento Valley forecast zone
- Measured
- 41 kt (47 mph)
- Reported by
- AWOS,ASOS,MESONET,ETC
High Wind in California, March 2, 1999
Pre-frontal winds approached 50 mph in Redding and exceeded 40 mph in Red Bluff.
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 STO wrote it up.
Pre-frontal winds approached 50 mph in Redding and exceeded 40 mph in Red Bluff.
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
- Tornado in Texas, March 2, 1999
- Tornado in Texas, March 2, 1999
- High Wind in Washington, March 2 to 3, 1999
- Tornado in Texas, March 2, 1999
- Tornado in Louisiana, March 2, 1999
- Tornado in Texas, March 2, 1999
- Tornado in Louisiana, March 2, 1999
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Mississippi, March 2, 1999
- Tornado in Texas, March 2, 1999
- Damaging Wind in Louisiana, March 2, 1999
- Tornado in Louisiana, March 2, 1999
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Louisiana, March 2, 1999
More
Every storm in California in 1999Every state in 1999This day in weather historyWarnings in California, March 1999
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: 5693246.