1 high wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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.
The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Los Angeles, CA wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Dec 7, 3:30 AM PST, 4 hours 30 minutes earlier.
SOUTHWEST CALIFORNIA AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOS ANGELES/OXNARD CA 330 AM PST THU DEC 7 2001 STRONG N-S GRADIENTS WERE THE STORY OVERNIGHT...WITH SBA-SMX GRADIENT NEAR -5.0 MB AND SBA-BFL GRADIENT RUNNING CLOSE TO -8.0 MB NEAR MIDNIGHT. GUSTY WINDS SURFACED AT A COUPLE OF LOCATIONS ACROSS THE SANTA BARBARA COUNTY SOUTH COAST...48 GUSTING TO 57 MPH AT MONTECITO HILLS AND NORTH WINDS GUSTING TO 45 MPH THROUGH THE SAN MARCOS PASS VIA A NWS SPOTTER. GOLETA PROFILER DATA ALSO INDICATED A SHARP INCREASE IN NORTHEAST WINDS ALOFT NEAR MIDNIGHT. AT 3 AM...N-S GRADIENTS HAVE STARTED TO RELAX IN FAVOR OF NE-SW GRADIENTS AND WINDS ACROSS SOUTHERN SANTA BARBARA COUNTY HAVE CORRESPONDINGLY WEAKENED. WILL CANCEL THE WIND ADVISORY FOR SBA COUNTY SOUTH COAST AND MOUNTAINS. WITH THE SHIFT IN GRADIENT ALIGNMENT..FOCUS NOW TURNS TO NORTHEAST WINDS ACROSS VTU/LA COUNTIES. FURTHER NORTH...EXTENSIVE STRATUS FORMATION IN THE CENTRAL VALLEY HAS STACKED UP AGAINST THE NORTHERN MOUNTAIN SLOPES OF SLO/SBA COUNTIES...EVEN SPILLING OVER THE LOWER ELEVATION SLO MOUNTAINS AND OUT ONTO THE CENTRAL COAST. EXPECT STRATUS TO BURN OFF BY LATE MORNING. 06Z MESOETA RUN INITIALIZED THE STRONGER WINDS OVER SBA COUNTY WELL...BUT MAY HAVE UNDERESTIMATED WINDS ACROSS VTU AND LA COUNTY. AT THIS TIME HOWEVER...ONLY SIMI VALLEY PROFILER INDICATING NEAR ADVISORY LEVEL WINDS. ACROSS THE VTU/LA COUNTY MOUNTAINS...SUSTAINED WIND SPEEDS NOT THAT HIGH...BUT WIND GUSTS ARE TOPPING 40 MPH... DISCOUNTING WHITAKER PEAK. MODELS NOW INDICATING STRONGER UPPER LEVEL SUPPORT ACROSS VTU/LA COUNTY LATER THIS MORNING...WITH 850MB WINDS INCREASING AND TURNING EASTERLY. WILL KEEP WINDS JUST BELOW ADVISORY LEVEL TODAY...BUT WILL ADJUST WORDING TO MAINTAIN WIND SPEEDS THROUGH THE AFTERNOON. AFTER AN IMPRESSIVE JUMP IN TEMPS YESTERDAY...EXPECT WARMUP TO CONTINUE TODAY...WITH TEMPS IN THE LOW 80S POSSIBLE ACROSS THE LA BASIN. TEMPS ON SATURDAY SHOULD DROP A FEW DEGREES AS OFFSHORE GRADIENTS START TO RELAX...BUT REMAIN ABOVE NORMAL. SUNDAY SEES A GRADIENT REVERSAL AS AN UPPER LOW DROPS SOUTHWARD AND OVER SOCAL. FORECAST TRACK DRIVES THE LOW SOUTHWARD ALONG THE COAST...AS OPPOSED TO STORMS EARLIER THIS SEASON WHICH APPROACHED CALIFORNIA FROM THE EAST OVER WATER. THAT SAID...SYSTEM PROGGED TO DROP IN ON SUNDAY WILL NOT HAVE THE CHANCE TO DRAW UP AS MUCH SUBTROPICAL MOISTURE AS ITS PREDECESSORS HAD DONE. WITH 500 MB HEIGHTS AND TEMPS EXPECTED TO DROP NEAR 550 DAM AND -22 DEGREES C RESPECTIVELY...ANY PRECIP ON SUNDAY LOOKS TO BE MORE CONVECTIVE IN NATURE. LOW POPS CHANCE ON SUNDAY BEST BET AT THIS TIME. TEMPS WILL TAKE A DIVE REGARDLESS OF PRECIP SUNDAY AND MONDAY...AS HEIGHTS FALL AND A COOL NORTH TO NORTHEASTERLY FLOW PATTERN SETS UP. OUTSIDE SHOT AT SOME SNOW TO OUR MOUNTAINS ON MONDAY...AIR MASS WILL BE COOL ENOUGH BUT WILDCARD IS THE AMOUNT OF MOISTURE PRESENT. MODELS HAVE BACKED OFF ON THE TROUGH EARLIER PROGGED TO AFFECT THE AREA TUESDAY...SO CURRENT DRY FORECAST IN THE EXTENDED WILL DO. LAX 000. TANABE .LOX...SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY (SEE LAXCWFLAX).
1 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Gusty northeast winds knocked down power lines and small trees in the community of Morro Bay. Wind speeds were estimated between 25 and 35 mph with local gusts as high as 60 mph.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in California in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in California, December 2001
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: 5273930.