California, 2002

High Wind in California, February 7, 2002

February 7, 2002 · NWS EKA · 2 events in 2 counties and zones

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

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 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 Eureka, CA wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Feb 7, 9:45 AM PST, 1 hour 15 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 7, 9:45 AM PST, 1 hour 15 minutes before
NORTHWEST CALIFORNIA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EUREKA CA
945 AM PST THU FEB 7 2002

THIS IS LATE GETTING OUT...BUT TO MAKE IT BRIEF...HAVE RAISED SNOW
LEVELS SLIGHTLY TODAY...TO 4000 FEET BASED ON PACJET PROFILER DATA
AT EKA IN CONCERT WITH MODEL SNOW/FREEZING LEVELS...AND COORD WITH
MFR AND SAC. THE LATEST PROFILER DATA WITH NEW SNOW LEVEL ALGORTIHM
SHOWS SNOW LEVEL NEAR EKA POSSIBLY AS HIGH AS 6000 FEET. BHX RADAR
IS DOWN FOR NOW...SO BASED ON MAINLY SATELLITE AND EARLIER
RADAR...NO CHANGE TO POPS TODAY. REFRESHED WSW FOR SNOW LEVEL IN
ZONE 4 TO 4000 FEET TODAY...DROPPING TO 2500 FT TONIGHT BUT WITH
DECREASING PRECIP. FOR ZONE 3...HAVE DOWNGRADED WSW TO SNOW ADVISORY
TONIGHT...WHEN SNOW LEVELS DECREASE BELOW 4000 FT.
OTHERWISE...UPDATED WORDING IN ZONES TO INDICATE RAIN HEAVY AT
TIMES. ALSO ADDED MENTION OF POSSIBLE THUNDERSTORM ZONES 1 AND 3
WITH NOSE OF STRONG JET PUSHING IN LATER TODAY...SHARP UPPER
TROF/VORT MAX AND FCST LIS NEAR 0C FAR N COAST AS SHOWN ON LATEST
ETA DATA. LATEST IR IMAGERY NOT QUITE AS IMPRESSIVE AS EARLIER
THOUGH...WITH APPROACHING ENHANCEMENT OF CLOUD TOPS JUST OFF OF AND
ALONG REDWOOD COAST. EARLIER THIS MORNING...SAW SIGNS OF POSSIBLE
CONVECTIVE LINE IN ADVANCE OF DEVELOPING SFC LOW NOW NEAR 35N 135W.
FEEL MAIN THREAT NOW FOR HEAVY RAINFALL AND SNOW IN HIGHER
ELEVATIONS.

POPS CEC +8300 ACV/EKA +7200 UKI +8000

.EKA...WINTER STORM WARNING ZONE 4 TODAY ABOVE 4000 FEET LOWERING TO
       2500 FEET TONIGHT.
    ...SNOW ADVISORY TONIGHT ZONE 3 ABOVE 2500 FEET.
    ...HIGH SURF ADVISORY PZZ450 AND REDWOOD COAST.
    ...GALE WARNING PT ST GEORGE TO PT ARENA 60NM.

Event by event

2 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.

High Wind, North Coast Interior

When
February 7, 11:00 AM PST to 6:00 PM PST
Where
North Coast Interior forecast zone
Measured
62 kt (71 mph)
Reported by
AWOS,ASOS,MESONET,ETC

High Wind, Redwood Coast

When
February 7, 2:10 PM PST to 3:30 PM PST
Where
Redwood Coast forecast zone
Measured
70 kt (81 mph)
Reported by
PARK/FOREST SERVICE

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

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: 5283269, 5283268.