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 9, 8:30 AM PST, 2 hours 30 minutes earlier.
SOUTHWEST CALIFORNIA AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOS ANGELES/OXNARD CA
830 AM PST SUN DEC 9 2001
COLD FRONT CURRENTLY PUSHING ACROSS SBA/VTU COUNTIES...WITH VERY
LITTLE...IF ANY...PRECIP ASSOCIATED WITH THE FRONT. RADAR DOES SHOW
SOME SCATTERED LIGHT SHOWERS BEHIND THE FRONT...ALONG THE CENTRAL
COAST. AS UPPER LOW CONTINUES TO DROP OVER THE AREA...INCREASING
INSTABILITY WILL KEEP SOME THREAT OF SHOWERS FOR THE AREA. SO...THE
CURRENT 20/30% POPS LOOK FINE.
WINDS HAVE DEFINATELY STARTED TO PICK UP BEHING THE FRONT...WITH
GALE FORCE WINDS ACROSS THE OUTER WATERS. ALSO...ISSUED A WIND
ADVISORY EARLIER FOR SOUTHERN SANTA BARBARA COUNTY...AS SPOTTER
REPORTS INDICATED GUSTY NORTHERLY WINDS. THESE WINDS MAY DECREASE
A LITTLE LATER THIS MORNING AND EARLY AFTERNOON...BUT SHOULD PICK
UP TO ADVISORY LEVELS LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. SO...THE
WIND ADVISORIES WILL REMAIN IN PLACE.
AS FOR TEMPS...TODAY SHOULD DEFINATELY BE COOLER AS THE UPPER LOW
DROPS OVER THE AREA...WITH TEMPS IN THE 60S FOR COASTAL/VALLEY
AREAS.
ZONE UPDATE ISSUED EARLIER FOR PREVIOUSLY MENTIONED WIND ADVISORY.
OTHERWISE...ZONES LOOK TO HANDLE THE SITUATION FINE AND NO FURTHER
UPDATES ARE PLANNED.
LAX 200. THOMPSON.
.LOX...WIND ADVISORIES (SEE LAXNPWLAX).
SMALL CRAFT ADVISORIES/GALE WARNINGS (SEE LAXCWFLAX).1 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Gusty west winds between 25 and 35 mph knocked down several trees at the intersection Doris Avenue and Ventura Road in the community of Oxnard.
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: 5273931.