High winds destroyed a scoreboard and flipped over a car near Devore.
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High winds destroyed a scoreboard and flipped over a car near Devore.
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 Mar 1, 3:00 AM PST, 5 hours 30 minutes earlier.
EXTREME SOUTHWESTERN CALIFORNIA AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN DIEGO CA 300 AM PST FRI MAR 1 2002 .SYNOPSIS...A DEEP MARINE WILL CAUSE SOME LOCAL DRIZZLE OR ISOLATED LIGHT RAIN THIS MORNING FROM THE COASTAL SLOPES TO THE COAST. GUSTY WINDS WILL BE OVER THE MOUNTAINS AND DEVELOP IN THE INLAND EMPIRE TODAY AS A SYSTEM MOVES INTO THE ROCKIES. A STRONG OFFSHORE FLOW IS FORECAST FOR SATURDAY THROUGH EARLY SUNDAY. WEAK HIGH PRESSURE ALOFT WILL INCREASE OVER THE AREA SUNDAY AND MONDAY. HIGH PRESSURE ALOFT WILL WEAKEN TUESDAY THROUGH THURSDAY. .DISCUSSION...MARINE LYR APPEARS TO BE OVR 5K SINCE IT HAS COVERED THE SNA MTNS AND IS BREACHING BANNING PASS. CSTL EDDY XPCD TO CONTINUE THRU TDA. RAIN AT RIV...CRQ AND OKB WITH DZ AT NFG. WILL KEEP DIMES FOR THIS AM. WIND SITUATION NOT VERY CLR TDA. BELIEVE IT WILL BE AN INLAND EMPIRE EVENT AND OVR THE MTNS. XPC THE MARINE LYR TO HANG IN THE NR COASTAL AREAS TDA AND THRU TNGT. STG OFSHR FCST FOR TNGT THRU SAT INTO SUN AM LOOKS MORE PROBABLE. DVV SHAPES UP MAINLY FOR THE SAT THRU SUN EVENT WITH STRONG THERMAL GRAD MAINLY THEN. STG COLD ADV ALSO OVR FAR SOCAL THEN. ALL COLD AIR AND ADV MOVE OUT LATE MORN AND AFTN SUN AND SHUD BE OVR BY THEN. 50H GOES UP SUN WITH NOT MUCH CHG MON. WEAK TROF STARTS TO MOVE OVR TUE AND 50H DROPS SLOWLY THRU THU. FOR NOW SOME CLDS LOOK GOOD AND NOT GOING FOR ANY PRECIP YET. WILL GO FOR TEMPS TDA A BIT HIER THAN YDA WITH SOME SUN...COLD ADVECTION SHUD KNOCK DOWN TEMPS IN THE MTNS...DSRTS AND INLAND EMPIRE SAT BUT WILL GO UP A BIT CSTL AREAS. .SAN...HIGH WIND WATCH...SEE LAXNPWSAN. WHITLOW
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in California in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in California, March 2002
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: 5281711.