High Wind in California, November 25, 2001

Name: High Wind in California, November 25, 2001
Start: 2001-11-25T12:07
End: 2001-11-25T12:07
Location: California

November 25, 2001 · NWS SGX · 1 event in 1 county or zone

1 high wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.

Where it happened

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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 forecasters said that day

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 San Diego, CA wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Nov 25, 9:30 AM PST, 2 hours 37 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Nov 25, 9:30 AM PST, 2 hours 37 minutes before

EXTREME SOUTHWESTERN CALIFORNIA AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN DIEGO CA
930 AM PST SUN NOV 25 2001

.SYNOPSIS...SOME LINGERING CLOUDS WILL CONTINUE OVER THE MOUNTAINS
AND OVER WESTERN SAN DIEGO COUNTY FROM THE EXITING STORM TODAY...BUT
SKIES SHOULD CLEAR TONIGHT. TEMPERATURES WILL BE BELOW NORMAL THE
NEXT FEW DAYS. A WEAK SYSTEM WILL MOVE THROUGH RAPIDLY MONDAY NIGHT
AND TUESDAY...BUT LITTLE OR NO RAIN IS EXPECTED FROM THIS. HIGH
PRESSURE WILL DOMINATE WEDNESDAY BEFORE ANOTHER SYSTEM APPROACHES
FROM THE WEST THURSDAY.

.DISCUSSION...MADE MAJOR REVISIONS THIS MORNING TO THE
ZONES...PARTLY BECAUSE THE WINDS HAVE DECREASED RAPIDLY. THE ACARS
SOUNDING CHANGES FROM ONT AT 1530Z VERSUS 10Z TELL THE REAL STORY AS
THE 100-KT WINDS AT 500-550 MB HAVE DECREASED TO ABOUT 75
KNOTS...BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY...AN INVERSION HAS FORMED IN THE
650-700 MB LAYER...AND WINDS WERE DECREASING BELOW THIS
INVERSION...SO THE WINDS ABOVE THE INVERSION WILL HAVE DIFFICULTY
TRANSLATING DOWN BELOW THE INVERSION WHEN MOUNTAIN WAVES FORM.
THUS...THE HIGH WIND WARNING IS HISTORY...AND I EXPECT ONLY 40 MPH
GUSTS ALONG THE EAST SLOPES.

THE CHANCE OF FROST LOOKS A BIT LESS RIGHT NOW FOR THE VALLEYS AS
DEW POINTS SHOULD KEEP TEMPS FROM DROPPING BELOW FREEZING. SOME FOG
COULD OCCUR THOUGH IN THE INLAND EMPIRE AS WINDS WILL BE CALM AND
GROUND MOISTURE HIGH FROM THE WEEKEND RAIN.

12Z AVN/MSO HAVE DIFFERENCES WITH THIS NEXT SYSTEM BUT BOTH ARE
TRENDING DOWNWARD IN OUR LIKELIHOOD OF PRECIP. I AM LEANING TOWARDS
THE AVN RIGHT NOW...WHICH HAS MORE OFFSHORE FLOW TUE AM AT THE
SURFACE AND 850 MB...TYPICAL OF A PATTERN WHEN DEEP TROUGHING ALOFT
LIES TO OUR EAST AND TEMPS ARE LOW OVER THE GREAT BASIN. NOT ENOUGH
SYNOPTIC-SCALE ONSHORE FLOW WILL OCCUR MONDAY TO BRING ANY LOW-LEVEL
RH INTO OUR AREA...SO IF ANY PRECIP FORMS...IT WOULD PROBABLY BE
SHOWERS ON THE N SLOPES OF THE SBD MTNS. I WILL LOOK AT THIS MORE
FOR THE AFTERNOON PACKAGE...AS WELL AS EXTENDED ENSEMBLE SOLUTIONS
FOR LATE IN THE WEEK.

.SAN...NONE.

MAXWELL

In the hours before

Local storm report, Nov 25, 9:15 AM PST, 2 hours 52 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN DIEGO, CA
1015 AM PDT SUN NOV 25 2001

TIME(PDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

1151 AM   HESPERIA                 CA   58 MPH NON TSTM WIND GUST
11/24/01  SAN BERNARDINO                 REPORT IS FROM AUTOMATED
                                         SENSOR AT EUCALYPTUS
                                         ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.

156 PM    BURNS CANYON             CA   92 MPH NON TSTM WIND GUST
11/24/01  SAN BERNARDINO                 REPORT IS FROM RAWS STATION
                                         AT 6000 FEET ELEV. ALONG
                                         EAST SLOPES OF THE SAN
                                         BERNARDINO MTNS.

210 PM    8 WSW PALM SPRINGS       CA   58 MPH NON TSTM WIND GUST
11/24/01  RIVERSIDE                      REPORT IS FROM 9000 FEET
                                         ELEV. ALONG EAST SLOPES OF
                                         THE SAN JACINTO MTNS.

245 PM    PHELAN                   CA   67 MPH NON TSTM WIND GUST
11/24/01  SAN BERNARDINO                 REPORT IS FROM AN NWS
                                         SPOTTER.

MAXWELL

Local storm report, Nov 25, 10:21 AM PST, 1 hour 46 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN DIEGO, CA
1015 AM PDT SUN NOV 25 2001

TIME(PDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

1151 AM   HESPERIA                 CA   58 MPH NON TSTM WIND GUST
11/24/01  SAN BERNARDINO                 REPORT IS FROM AUTOMATED
                                         SENSOR AT EUCALYPTUS
                                         ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.

156 PM    BURNS CANYON             CA   92 MPH NON TSTM WIND GUST
11/24/01  SAN BERNARDINO                 REPORT IS FROM RAWS STATION
                                         AT 6000 FEET ELEV. ALONG
                                         EAST SLOPES OF THE SAN
                                         BERNARDINO MTNS.

210 PM    8 WSW PALM SPRINGS       CA   58 MPH NON TSTM WIND GUST
11/24/01  RIVERSIDE                      REPORT IS FROM 9000 FEET
                                         ELEV. ALONG EAST SLOPES OF
                                         THE SAN JACINTO MTNS.

245 PM    PHELAN                   CA   67 MPH NON TSTM WIND GUST
11/24/01  SAN BERNARDINO                 REPORT IS FROM AN NWS
                                         SPOTTER.

MAXWELL

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Event by event

1 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.

High Wind, San Diego T X W

When: November 25, 12:07 PM PST
Where: San Diego T X W forecast zone
Measured: 51 kt (59 mph)
Reported by: AWOS,ASOS,MESONET,ETC
Coordinates: 33.028, -116.770 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

What these are

High Wind: Sustained non-thunderstorm winds of 40 mph or more for an hour, or gusts of 58 mph or more.

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The same day elsewhere

Every storm in California in 2001 Every state in 2001 This day in weather history Warnings in California, November 2001

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: 5272538.