High Wind, Mono
- When
- February 23, 12:00 PM PST
- Where
- Mono forecast zone
- Measured
- 61 kt (70 mph)
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 37.939, -118.887 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
High Wind in California, February 23, 2002
Mammoth Ski Area reported wind gusting from 50 to 70 mph. The top of the mountain had to be closed to skiers.
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 happened
The episode as NWS REV wrote it up.
Mammoth Ski Area reported wind gusting from 50 to 70 mph. The top of the mountain had to be closed to skiers.
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 Feb 23, 9:50 AM PST, 2 hours 10 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 23, 9:50 AM PST, 2 hours 10 minutes before
WESTERN NEVADA AND EASTERN CALIFORNIA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RENO NV 950 AM PST SAT FEB 23 2002 SOME MINOR CHANGES TO ZONE PACKAGE FOR AFTERNOON PERIOD. SECONDARY VORT SWINGING THRU WRN NV THIS AFTN WITH SOME MARGINAL INSTABILITY AND DECENT LAPSE RATES FORECAST FOR NORTHEAST PORTION OF CWA...MAINLY N OF LOVELOCK. 500MB COLD POOL AT -29C SKIRTING ACRS NRN PTN NV THIS AFTERNOON WITH 850/500 LAPSE RATES OF 6-7C/KM. THIS COUPLED WITH SOME AFTERNOON HEATING AND MARGINAL LI/S WILL RESULT IN PSBLTY OF TSTMS THAT AREA SO WILL KEEP MNTN THERE. OTRW EXPECT TEMP DROPS OF 15-20 DEGREES FROM YDAS HIGHS AND HAVE LOWERED FCST HIGHS MAINLY NRN AREAS. WILL HOLD ONTO MNTN OF SCTD SHWRS NRN SIERRAS AND FAR NRN PTN CWA WITH PC SKIES ELSEWHERE. WIND GRADUALLY SHIFTS WEST AND WILL SLOWLY DIMINISH THIS AFTN WHILE CONTG TO VEER. STILL MAY SEE SOME GUSTY NW RIDGETOP WINDS OVERNIGHT. JAH .REV...NONE.
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
1 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
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
- Winter Storm in Montana, February 23 to 24, 2002
- High Wind in California, February 23 to 24, 2002
- High Surf in Hawaii, February 23 to 24, 2002
- Heavy Snow in Idaho, February 23 to 24, 2002
- High Wind in Montana, February 23, 2002
- High Wind in Nevada, February 23, 2002
- Damaging Wind in Florida, February 23, 2002
- High Wind in California, February 23, 2002
- Heavy Snow in Idaho, February 23 to 24, 2002
More
Every storm in California in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in California, February 2002
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: 5280678.