High Wind, Mono
- When
- September 25, 8:34 AM PST
- Where
- Mono forecast zone
- Measured
- 63 kt (72 mph)
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 37.939, -118.887 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
High Wind in California, September 25, 2001
Spotter reports of wind gusting to 73 and 68 MPH respectively in the town of Walker.
Where it happened
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- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
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- 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
- 2
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 REV wrote it up.
Spotter reports of wind gusting to 73 and 68 MPH respectively in the town of Walker.
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 Reno, NV wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Sep 25, 8:00 AM PST, 34 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 25, 8:00 AM PST, 34 minutes before
WESTERN NEVADA AND EASTERN CALIFORNIA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RENO NV
900 AM PDT TUE SEP 25 2001
THE UPPER LOW OVER NRN CA MOVES RAPIDLY NE OF NRN NV AFT 18Z WITH A
LOW RISK OF SHOWERS PERSISTING NEAR THE OREGON BORDER UNTIL ABOUT
21Z. LOCALLY STRONG GUSTY SW WINDS ALSO DECREASE FROM THE WEST AS
BEHIND THE UPPER TROUGH BY 18Z WRN NV AND 21Z NORTHWEST NV. SOME
MOISTURE AND MAINLY DAYTIME CLOUDS PERSISTS FROM NE CA TO NW NV
TONIGHT THROUGH THURSDAY IN OTHERWISE DRY STABLE SW FLOW ALOFT.
TEMPERATURES RECOVER SEVERAL DEGREES WEDNESDAY THEN MORE SLOWLY
THURSDAY WITH SMALL DAY TO DAY THICKNESS RISES. OSTERMAN.
.REV...WIND ADVISORY TODAY ZONES 1 AND 73
LAKE WIND ADVISORY TODAY ZONE 2/72
NNNNThe radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
2 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
High Wind, Mono
- When
- September 25, 8:47 AM PST
- Where
- Mono forecast zone
- Measured
- 59 kt (68 mph)
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 37.939, -118.887 (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.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Dust Storm in Oregon, September 25, 2001
- Wildfire in California, September 25 to 30, 2001
- Flash Flooding in New York, September 25, 2001
- High Surf in California, September 25, 2001
- Dust Storm in Washington, September 25, 2001
- High Wind in Idaho, September 25, 2001
- Dust Storm in Idaho, September 25, 2001
- High Wind in Montana, September 25, 2001
- Heavy Snow in West Virginia, September 25, 2001
- Damaging Wind in California, September 25, 2001
- High Wind in Nevada, September 25, 2001
- High Wind in California, September 25, 2001
More
Every storm in California in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in California, September 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: 5269682, 5269683.