Dense Fog, W/S Orange
- When
- February 6, 9:10 PM PST to February 7, 9:00 AM PST
- Where
- W/S Orange forecast zone
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
Dense Fog in California, February 6 to 7, 2002
Fog lowered visibility to between 50 and 100 feet in the Fountain Valley area.
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 SGX wrote it up.
Fog lowered visibility to between 50 and 100 feet in the Fountain Valley area.
Event by event
1 dense fog. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Dense Fog
- Fog reducing visibility to a quarter mile or less, filed where it caused accidents or disruption.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Avalanche in Colorado, February 6, 2002
- Winter Weather in North Carolina, February 6, 2002
- Heavy Snow in Missouri, February 6 to 7, 2002
- Winter Weather in Georgia, February 6, 2002
- Winter Weather in South Carolina, February 6, 2002
- Heavy Snow in Kentucky, February 6, 2002
- Heavy Snow in Idaho, February 6 to 8, 2002
- High Wind in Oregon, February 6, 2002
- Heavy Snow in Washington, February 6, 2002
- Heavy Snow in West Virginia, February 6 to 7, 2002
- Flood in Indiana, February 6 to 12, 2002
- Flood in Indiana, February 6 to 11, 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 2026-10-01. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5283584.