Strong Wind, Indian Wells Vly
- When
- January 3, 4:13 AM PST to 10:00 AM PST
- Where
- Indian Wells Vly forecast zone
- Measured
- 42 kt (48 mph) measured gust
- Property damage
- $1,000
- Reported by
- AWOS,ASOS,MESONET,ETC
Strong Wind in California, January 3, 2004
Post-frontal wind buffeted the Kern County Desert locations during the morning hours of the 3rd.
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $2,000
- 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 happened
The episode as NWS HNX wrote it up.
Post-frontal wind buffeted the Kern County Desert locations during the morning hours of the 3rd.
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 Hanford, CA wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jan 3, 3:00 AM PST, 1 hour 13 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 3, 3:00 AM PST, 1 hour 13 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY - HANFORD CA 300 AM PST SAT JAN 3 2004 .SHORT TERM...FOR THE CENTRAL CALIFORNIA INTERIOR... WATER VAPOR IMAGERY SHOWS THE AXIS OF AN UPPER TROUGH HAS PUSHED EAST OF THE AREA. CYCLONIC FLOW AND STRONG NW FLOW SHOULD CONTINUE TO PROVIDE SCATTERED SHOWERS ACROSS THE SOUTHERN SIERRA AND TEHACHAPIS DURING THE MORNING. A VORTICITY MAX MOVING ACROSS NORTHERN CALIFORNIA MAY CONTINUE TO PROVIDE SNOW SHOWERS NEAR YOSEMITE THROUGH THE AFTERNOON. WILL LET THE SNOW ADVISORY EXPIRE AT 0400 EXPECT AT MOST 1 OR 2 INCHES OF ADDITIONAL SNOWFALL. EXPECT STRONG GUSTY WINDS OVER THE HIGHER ELEVATIONS AND PASSES OF THE TEHACHAPI TODAY AS A A STRONG JET OF 120+ KT ALIGNS WITH PRESSURE GRADIENTS. -12C DEGREES AT 700MB WILL PROVIDE SNOW LEVELS BELOW PASS LEVEL. PERHAPS DOWN TO 1500 FEET NEAR YOSEMITE AND AROUND 3500 TOWARD FRAZIER PARK. COLD AIRMASS ACROSS THE REGION WILL BRING A THREAT OF WIDESPREAD FROST AND PATCHY DENSE FOG TO THE SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY BOTH SUNDAY AND MONDAY MORNINGS. AIRMASS SHOULD MODERATE BY TUESDAY AS AN UPPER RIDGE IN THE EASTERN PACIFIC BUILDS INTO CALIFORNIA. .LONG TERM...FOR TUESDAY THROUGH FRIDAY...GOOD AGREEMENT EXISTS BETWEEN THE MEDIUM RANGE MODELS...ALL OF WHICH FORECAST A WEAK RIDGE OF HIGH PRESSURE OVER CENTRAL CA TUESDAY WITH WARM ADVECTION CLDS/PRECIP STAYING JUST NORTH OF OUR CWFA. THE RIDGE FLATTENS TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY ALLOWING THE NEXT SHORTWAVE TO SPREAD PRECIP FARTHER SOUTH AND INTO THE CWFA. MODELS NOW INDICATE THE RIDGE WILL REBUILD AND BE CENTERED IN THE GREAT BASIN THURSDAY... SHUNTING PRECIP NORTHWARD AGAIN. THUS THE BEST CHANCE OF PRECIP FOR CENTRAL CA INTERIOR WILL BE WEDNESDAY. WILL KEEP SOME LOW POPS ACROSS THE NORTH THURSDAY. WILL KEEP FRIDAY DRY AS GFS KEEPS THE RIDGE OVER THE REGION. .HNX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... ...WIND ADVISORY FOR THE KERN COUNTY MOUNTAINS AND DESERTS TODAY. && MV/BEAN
Hazardous weather outlook, Jan 2, 9:30 PM PST, 6 hours 43 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY - HANFORD CA 930 PM PST FRI JAN 2 2004 UPDATED FOR SNOW ADVISORY FOR THE TULARE COUNTY FOOTHILLS AND MOUNTAINS CAZ093-096-031300- MARIPOSA MADERA AND FRESNO COUNTY FOOTHILLS- SIERRA NEVADA FROM YOSEMITE TO KINGS CANYON- 930 PM PST FRI JAN 2 2004 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE MARIPOSA...MADERA...AND FRESNO COUNTY FOOTHILLS AND THE SOUTHERN SIERRA NEVADA FROM YOSEMITE TO KINGS CANYON. .DAY ONE...TODAY A SNOW ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT FOR THE SOUTHERN SIERRA NEVADA FROM YOSEMITE TO KINGS CANYON AND THE ADJACENT FOOTHILLS THROUGH TONIGHT. PLEASE REFER TO THE LATEST WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE...SFOWSWHNX...OR .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... WEATHER SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER CONDITIONS TO THEIR LOCAL NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE. CAZ094-097-031300- TULARE COUNTY FOOTHILLS-TULARE COUNTY MOUNTAINS- 930 PM PST FRI JAN 2 2004 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE TULARE COUNTY MOUNTAINS AND THE ADJACENT FOOTHILLS. .DAY ONE...TODAY A SNOW ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT FOR THE TULARE COUNTY MOUNTAINS AND THE ADJACENT FOOTHILLS THROUGH TONIGHT. PLEASE REFER TO THE LATEST WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE...SFOWSWHNX...OR WWUS46 KHNX...FOR FURTHER DETAILS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... WEATHER SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER CONDITIONS TO THEIR LOCAL NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE. CAZ095-031300- KERN COUNTY MOUNTAINS- 930 PM PST FRI JAN 2 2004 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE KERN COUNTY MOUNTAINS. .DAY ONE...TODAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... WEATHER SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER CONDITIONS TO THEIR LOCAL NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE. CAZ089>092-098-099-031300- WEST CENTRAL SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY-EAST CENTRAL SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY- SOUTHWESTERN SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY-SOUTHEASTERN SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY- INDIAN WELLS VALLEY-SOUTHEASTERN KERN COUNTY DESERT- 930 PM PST FRI JAN 2 2004 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY..AND THE KERN COUNTY DESERTS. .DAY ONE...TODAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... WEATHER SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER CONDITIONS TO THEIR LOCAL NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE.
Event by event
2 strong wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Strong Wind, Se Kern Cty Desert
- When
- January 3, 4:24 AM PST to 9:00 AM PST
- Where
- Se Kern Cty Desert forecast zone
- Measured
- 60 kt (69 mph) measured gust
- Property damage
- $1,000
- Reported by
- AWOS,ASOS,MESONET,ETC
What these are
- Strong Wind
- Non-thunderstorm winds below high wind criteria that nonetheless caused damage or casualties.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Winter Storm in Kansas, January 3 to 4, 2004
- Flood in Ohio, January 3 to 4, 2004
- High Wind in Washington, January 3, 2004
- Winter Storm in Nebraska, January 3 to 4, 2004
- Flooding in Indiana, January 3 to 18, 2004
- Winter Storm in Nebraska, January 3 to 4, 2004
- Winter Storm in Colorado, January 3, 2004
- Winter Storm in Iowa, January 3 to 4, 2004
- Frost and Freeze in California, January 3 to 6, 2004
- Winter Storm in Montana, January 3 to 4, 2004
- Winter Storm in Colorado, January 3, 2004
- Heavy Snow in Nevada, January 3, 2004
More
Every storm in California in 2004Every state in 2004This day in weather historyWarnings in California, January 2004
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: 5380380, 5380379.