Dense Fog, San Diego County Coasts
- When
- December 20, 11:14 PM PST to December 21, 7:51 AM PST
- Where
- San Diego County Coasts forecast zone
- Reported by
- NEWSPAPER
- Coordinates
- 33.028, -116.770 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Dense Fog in California, December 20 to 21, 2000
Dense fog with visibility near zero halted all air and sea travel into and out of San Diego, and slowed motor vehicle travel west of Interstates 805 and 15 to a crawl for several hours.
Where it happened
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- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
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 SGX wrote it up.
Dense fog with visibility near zero halted all air and sea travel into and out of San Diego, and slowed motor vehicle travel west of Interstates 805 and 15 to a crawl for several hours.
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
1 dense fog. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Dense Fog
- Fog reducing visibility to a quarter mile or less, filed where it caused accidents or disruption.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Frost and Freeze in Florida, December 20, 2000
- Heavy Snow in Iowa, December 20, 2000
- Blizzard in North Dakota, December 20, 2000
- Heavy Snow in Illinois, December 20, 2000
- Frost and Freeze in Florida, December 20 to 21, 2000
- Winter Storm in Mississippi, December 20 to 21, 2000
- Winter Storm in Minnesota, December 20, 2000
- Blizzard in Minnesota, December 20, 2000
- High Surf in Hawaii, December 20 to 27, 2000
- Heavy Snow in Maine, December 20, 2000
- Heavy Snow in Michigan, December 20 to 22, 2000
- Winter Storm in Maine, December 20, 2000
More
Every storm in California in 2000Every state in 2000This day in weather historyWarnings in California, December 2000
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: 5166664.