1 funnel cloud, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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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 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 Apr 28, 1:00 PM PST, 5 hours 50 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN DIEGO CA 200 PM PDT THU APR 28 2005 .SYNOPSIS...A LOW PRESSURE TROUGH WILL KEEP SOME SHOWERS OVER THE AREA THIS EVENING. WEAK HIGH PRESSURE WILL BRING FAIR WEATHER ON FRIDAY WITH SOME WARMING ON SATURDAY. ANOTHER WEAK SYSTEM WILL BRUSH BY TO THE NORTH SUNDAY AND MONDAY WITH CLOUDS AND A DEEPENING MARINE LAYER. && .DISCUSSION...FOR EXTREME SOUTHWESTERN CALIFORNIA INCLUDING ORANGE... SAN DIEGO...WESTERN RIVERSIDE AND SOUTHWESTERN SAN BERNARDINO COUNTIES. STILL HAVING SOME PROBLEMS WITH OUR IFPS DATABASE WHICH SOMEHOW GOT CORRUPTED LAST NIGHT SO NEW GRIDS ARE LIMITED. WILL CANCEL THE SNOW ADVISORY FOR THE MOUNTAINS. HAVE NOT RECEIVED ANY REPORTS OF SNOW IN THE MOUNTAINS THIS AFTERNOON. CHP REPORTED SOME IN THE LAKE ARROWHEAD AREA EARLIER WITH THE FRONT. SATELLITE IMAGERY INDICATES THE UPPER LOW IS OVER NEVADA NEAR TPH AT THIS TIME...SIMILAR TO THE MODEL GUIDANCE. ASSOCATED TROUGH REMAINS OVER THE CWA THIS AFTERNOON AND WILL CONTINUE SHOWERS THROUGH THE EVENING. A WEAK RIDGE MOVES OVER THE AREA BEHIND THE SHORTWAVE LATER TONIGHT AND FRIDAY WITH DRYING INTO SATURDAY. MODELS STILL INDICATE SIGNIFICANT MOISTURE MOVING INTO THE AREA ON SUNDAY WITH THE NEXT SHORTWAVE THAT MOVES INTO THE COAST BUT MODELS ARE KEEPING POPS FAIRLY LOW WITH THIS SYSTEM. 12Z GFS CONTINUES TO SHOW THE SHORTWAVE SPLITTING WITH A PORTION GOING INLAND TO OUR NORTH AND THE REMAINDER GOING TO THE SOUTH OF US INTO NORTHERN MEXICO. STILL CAN NOT RULE OUT SOME SHOWERS WITH THIS SHORTWAVE BUT WILL WAIT AND SEE HOW LATER MODELS HANDLE THIS SYSTEM. 00Z GFS INDICATES ANOTHER WEAK SHORTWAVE TROUGH SWINGS THROUGH WEDNESDAY OF NEXT WEEK WITH LITTLE OR NO PRECIPITATION. && .SGX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... SNOW ADVISORY UNTIL 6 PM...SEE LAXWSWSGX. WIND ADVISORY UNTIL 9 PM...SEE LAXNPWSGX. MARINE WEATHER STATEMENT...SEE LAXMWSSGX. && HORTON
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN DIEGO CA 910 PM PDT WED APR 27 2005 CAZ042-043-048-050-055-056-057-058-060-061-062-281400- ORANGE COUNTY COASTAL AREAS- SAN DIEGO COUNTY COASTAL AREAS- 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- APPLE AND LUCERNE VALLEYS- COACHELLA VALLEY- SAN DIEGO COUNTY DESERTS- 910 PM PDT WED APR 27 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR ALL OF EXTREME SOUTHWESTERN CALIFORNIA. .DAY ONE... TODAY THROUGH TONIGHT. A LATE SEASON PACIFIC STORM WILL MOVE EASTWARD TOWARDS CALIFORNIA. MODERATE TO LOCALLY HEAVY PRECIPITATION MAY DEVELOP ALONG AND WEST OF THE MOUNTAINS LATE TONIGHT. STRONG GUSTY WINDS WILL DEVELOP IN THE MOUNTAINS AND DESERTS THIS AFTERNOON AND CONTINUE TONIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... THURSDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. FOR THURSDAY...A LATE SEASON PACIFIC STORM WILL MOVE INLAND ACROSS CALIFORNIA. THIS STORM IS EXPECTED TO BRING MODERATE TO LOCALLY HEAVY PRECIPITATION ALONG AND WEST OF THE MOUNTAINS. THERE WILL BE STRONG GUSTY WINDS IN THE MOUNTAINS AND DESERTS. THERE IS THE POSSIBILITY OF ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS AND WATERSPOUTS OVER THE COASTAL WATERS THURSDAY MORNING...SEE LAXMWSSGX. SEVERAL INCHES OF SNOW ARE EXPECTED IN THE SAN BERNARDINO AND RIVERSIDE COUNTY MOUNTAINS ABOVE 6000 FEET CAUSING HAZARDOUS TRAVEL CONDITIONS...SEE LAXWSWSGX. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...SKYWARN WEATHER SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS POSSIBLE THURSDAY MORNING. WEATHER SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER CONDITIONS ACCORDING TO STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURES. MARTIN/JAD
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN DIEGO CA
252 PM PDT THU APR 28 2005
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0226 PM SNOW BIG BEAR LAKE 34.24N 116.89W
04/28/2005 1.0 INCH SAN BERNARDINO CA PUBLIC
SNOWING AT 6500 FEET 1 INCH OF RAIN AND 1 INCH OF SNOW SO
FAR
0227 PM SNOW BIG BEAR CITY 34.27N 116.85W
04/28/2005 4.0 INCH SAN BERNARDINO CA PUBLIC
SNOWING AT 7100 FEET 4 TO 5 INCHES ON THE GROUND
&&
PURPURAPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN DIEGO CA
540 PM PDT THU APR 28 2005
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0630 AM NON-TSTM WND DMG DANA POINT 33.46N 117.70W
04/28/2005 ORANGE CA FIRE DEPT/RESCUE
WIND DAMAGE AT PACIFIC COAST HIGHWAY AND DOHENY PARKWAY.
3 TREES SNAPPED. 8 TO 12 HOMES SUSTAINED MINOR WIND
RELATED DAMAGE. NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED
A SQUALL LINE MOVED THROUGH THE AREA. AVAILABLE
EYEWITNESS ACCOUNTS CANNOT CONFIRM THE OCCURRENCE OF ANY
WATERSPOUT OR TORNADO.
&&
LAVIS/MAXWELLThe national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 funnel cloud. Local standard time, as filed.
A funnel cloud was observed offshore by lifeguards in Carlsbad.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in California in 2005Every state in 2005This day in weather historyWarnings in California, April 2005
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: 5447424.