Trees and power poles were knocked down in Redlands, Riverside, Tustin, Santa Ana, San Clemente, and Lakeside. Several cars and houses were damaged.
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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.
The episode as NWS SGX wrote it up.
Trees and power poles were knocked down in Redlands, Riverside, Tustin, Santa Ana, San Clemente, and Lakeside. Several cars and houses were damaged. Winds gusting between 30 and 40 mph fanned a 3 acre fire in Coto de Caza and a 7.5 acre brush fire near Norco, where three roofs of nearby homes caught fire. Three tractor trailers were blown over between Riverside and Rancho Cucamonga.
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 Nov 25, 9:30 PM PST, 4 hours 30 minutes earlier.
EXTREME SOUTHWESTERN CALIFORNIA AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN DIEGO CA 930 PM PST MON NOV 25 2002 .SYNOPSIS...A STRONG UPPER-LEVEL LOW WILL MOVE INTO NORTHERN BAJA CALIFORNIA TONIGHT AND LINGER THROUGH MUCH OF THE WEEK. THIS WILL COMBINE WITH STRONG OFFSHORE FLOW AND BRING STRONG GUSTY WINDS AT TIMES. SOME CLOUDS WILL CIRCULATE AROUND THE LOW...AND A FEW SHOWERS COULD DEVELOP TONIGHT OVER THE SAN BERNARDINO AND RIVERSIDE COUNTY MOUNTAINS DUE TO MOISTURE ALOFT AND INSTABILITY. .DISCUSSION...WINDS HAVE TEMPORARILY DIED DOWN...BUT LOCAL WIND PROGRAM SUGGESTS MORE STRONG GUSTS OF 58 MPH OR MORE IN THE FAVORED AREAS LATER...INCLUDING FREMONT CANYON AND RIALTO. GIVEN THAT THIS IS A GRADIENT PATTERN WHERE THE SURFACE PRESSURE GRADIENT IS INTENSE...AND WINDS ALOFT AND 850/700 MB AND ABOVE ARE PERSISTENTLY STRONG...THUS MANY AREAS WILL BE WINDY...AND NOT JUST THOSE BELOW PASSES AND CANYONS. SOME WARNINGS/ADVISORIES WILL PROBABLY BE NEEDED BEYOND TUESDAY...THOUGH THE TRICKY POSITION OF THE CUTOFF LOW JUST TO OUR S WILL PLAY A ROLE IN THAT. THE FURTHER EAST THE LOW LIES...THE MORE WIND WE WILL HAVE. MOISTURE ALOFT WAS WRAPPING AROUND THE UPPER LOW...NOW NEAR BLYTHE...AND GIVEN THAT SOME LIGHT SHOWERS OCCURRED AROUND LAS VEGAS THIS AFTERNOON...A FEW SHOWERS COULD HAPPEN OVERNIGHT OVER OUR NORTHERN MTNS. MOISTURE IS ABUNDANT AT 700 MB BUT LACKING BELOW...SO THE SHOWERS SHOULD BE LIMITED TO HIGHER TERRAIN AND BE VIRGA EVERYWHERE ELSE. GIVEN THE 500 MB TEMPS DROPPING TO AROUND -25 DEG C IN OUR EASTERN AREAS...A TSTORM IS NOT COMPLETELY OUT OF THE QUESTION...THOUGH WE WILL PROBABLY NOT HAVE ENOUGH MOISTURE FOR THAT. THE UPDATE HAS MOST AREAS AS PARTLY CLOUDY THE NEXT FEW DAYS GIVEN THE MOIST 700 MB FLOW OVERHEAD. GIVEN THAT THE LOW WILL BE AT ITS FURTHEST SOUTH TUE/WED...OUR PRECIP CHANCES ARE LEAST THEN...BUT MODELS DIVERGE AFTER THAT...WITH SOME SOLUTIONS PULLING THE LOW EAST...BUT SOME PULLING THE LOW BACK WEST. IF THE WESTERN SOLUTIONS WIN...WE WILL PROBABLY SEE AT LEAST SCATTERED SHOWERS THU/FRI. .SAN...HIGH WIND WARNING...WIND ADVISORY...SEE LAXNPWSGX. MAXWELL
CAZ042-043-048-050-055>058-060>062-261400- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN DIEGO CA 230 PM PST MON NOV 25 2002 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EXTREME SOUTHWESTERN CALIFORNIA. .DAY ONE... TODAY THROUGH TONIGHT WIND ADVISORY THROUGH 200 PM TUESDAY FOR SAN DIEGO COUNTY VALLEYS- HIGH WIND WARNING TONIGHT THROUGH 200 PM TUESDAY FOR ORANGE COUNTY COASTAL AREAS- SAN BERNARDINO AND RIVERSIDE COUNTY VALLEYS-THE INLAND EMPIRE- SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY MOUNTAINS- RIVERSIDE COUNTY MOUNTAINS- SANTA ANA MOUNTAINS AND FOOTHILLS- SAN DIEGO COUNTY MOUNTAINS- REFER TO LAXNPWSGX WWUS76 KSGX FOR DETAILS. .SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT... SKYWARN ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY POSSIBLE HIGH WINDS FOR... SAN BERNARDINO AND RIVERSIDE COUNTY VALLEYS-THE INLAND EMPIRE... SAN DIEGO COUNTY VALLEYS... SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY MOUNTAINS... RIVERSIDE COUNTY MOUNTAINS... SANTA ANA MOUNTAINS AND FOOTHILLS... SAN DIEGO COUNTY MOUNTAINS... TUESDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. MARTIN/MM
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
4 high wind, 2 wildfire. 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, November 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: 5322823, 5322822, 5322821, 5322824, 5322825, 5322826.