High Wind, Alameda / Contra Costa
- When
- December 18, 1:17 AM PST to 9:00 AM PST
- Where
- Alameda / Contra Costa forecast zone
- Measured
- 66 kt (76 mph)
- Property damage
- $1.1 million
- Reported by
- AWOS,ASOS,MESONET,ETC
High Wind in California, December 18, 2000
Diablo. Gusts to 62 mph were recorded at Oakland South Raws and a gust of 71 MPH was reported at the Oakland north RAWS in Contr Costa County.
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $1.1 million
- 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 MTR wrote it up.
The Oakland Hills section of Alameda county experience winds gusting as high as 66 mph according to the observation on Mt.Diablo. Gusts to 62 mph were recorded at Oakland South Raws and a gust of 71 MPH was reported at the Oakland north RAWS in Contr Costa County. A large Monterey Pine tree was blown down onto a house causing extensive damage in the Montclair district. Power to over 2500 customers was lost due to trees blowing into power lines. Three cars were crushed by two trees falling into the road in the broadway terrace neighborhood. Hwy 13 and the entry ramp to I-580 snarled traffic as trees were blown down across these roads.
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
- Blizzard in Iowa, December 18, 2000
- High Wind in Kansas, December 18, 2000
- Heavy Snow in New York, December 18, 2000
- Winter Storm in Tennessee, December 18 to 19, 2000
- Extreme Cold in Nebraska, December 18 to 19, 2000
- Heavy Snow in Iowa, December 18 to 19, 2000
- High Wind in Colorado, December 18, 2000
- High Wind in Vermont, December 18, 2000
- Heavy Snow in Illinois, December 18 to 19, 2000
- Heavy Snow in Wisconsin, December 18, 2000
- Winter Storm in Wisconsin, December 18, 2000
- Winter Storm in Nebraska, December 18, 2000
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: 5177784.