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 Hanford, CA wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Mar 1, 2:00 PM PST, 6 hours earlier.
INTERIOR CENTRAL CALIFORNIA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY - HANFORD CA 200 PM PST THU MAR 01 2001 NEXT TROF/FRONT NEARING THE NORCAL COAST THIS AFTERNOON. MODEL TIMING WITH THIS FEATURE INTO CENTRAL CA MUCH FASTER THAT PREVIOUS RUNS AND WILL BRING POPS UP CONSIDERABLY FROM PREVIOUS FCST. FRONT TO COME THRU FRI AFTERNOON WITH SHOWERS DECREASING. TEMPS COOLING NEXT 2 DAYS DUE CLDS/PRECIP AND WILL UNDERCUT MOS SOME. SNOW LEVELS IN THE SRN SIERRA INITIALLY NEAR 6K...LOWERING TO 4-5K FROM NORTH TO SOUTH FRI NITE. SNOWFALL AMOUNTS NOT TERRIBLY IMPRESSIVE AND DO NOT FORESEE NEED FOR ADVISORIES AT THIS TIME. MOIST SW FLOW ALOFT CONTS SAT...AND WILL CONT WITH A CHANCE OF SHOWERS. THE NEXT SYS TO COME THRU SAT NIGHT AND EARLY SUN...WITH RAIN GRADUALLY DIMINISHING SUN AFTERNOON. YET ANOTHER TROF DIGS DOWN THE COAST SUN NITE AND MON. THE AVN KEEPS DYNAMICS AND BETTER MOISTURE FIELDS MON ALONG AND WEST OF THE CENTRAL CA COAST. WOULD NORMALLY KEEP MON FCST DRY WITH THIS TYPE OF TRAJECTORY. HOWEVER...MODEL PERFORMANCE HAS BEEN LESS THAN STELLAR LATELY...AND WILL CONT PRECIP CHANCES MON AS LONGWAVE TROF DEVELOPS OVER THE AREA. TROF TO LINGER INTO TUES. VERY LITTLE MODEL CONFIDENCE MIDDLE OF NEXT WEEK...AND NOT SURE WHEN TO CUT BACK ON PRECIP. FOR NOW...WILL KEEP SOME MENTION OF PRECIP INTO WED...THEN ATTEMPT TO DRY IT OUT THURS. FAT -733 BFL 0433 YNP 2833 BINGHAM .HNX...NONE.
1 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Brisk wind estimated at 20 to 30 MPH from the unusual direction of NNE reported at the California City Airport with blowing dust in the area.
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, March 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: 5238041.