1 high wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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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 Dec 31, 2:30 PM PST, 6 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN DIEGO CA 230 PM PST SAT DEC 31 2005 .SYNOPSIS...A PACIFIC WEATHER SYSTEM WILL BRING MORE CLOUDS AND SOME RAIN TO MOST OF THE AREA THIS EVENING WITH STRONG GUSTY WINDS IN THE MOUNTAINS AND DESERTS. A STRONGER STORM WILL BRING RAIN...POSSIBLY HEAVY...AND WIDESPREAD STRONG WIND ON MONDAY. HIGH PRESSURE WILL BRING FAIR AND WARMER WEATHER DURING THE SECOND HALF OF NEXT WEEK. && .DISCUSSION...FOR EXTREME SOUTHWESTERN CALIFORNIA INCLUDING ORANGE... SAN DIEGO...WESTERN RIVERSIDE AND SOUTHWESTERN SAN BERNARDINO COUNTIES... THE FRONTAL BAND OF CLOUDS AND RAIN IS NOW MOVING THROUGH PARTS OF SOUTHWEST CALIFORNIA LIGHT PRRECIP HAS BEEN REPORTED AS FAR SOUTH AS OCEANSIDE IN SAN DIEGO COUNTY AND AS FAR EAST AS DEVORE IN SOUTHWEST SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY. THERE HAVE ALSO BEEN REPORTS OF STRONG...GUSTY WINDS...AS HIGH AS 44 MPH IN SOUTHWEST SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY. THE FRONTAL BAND HAS A WELL DEFINED BACK EDGE AND IS MOVING AT ABOUT 45 MPH. UNLESS IT SLOWS DOWN CONSIDERABLY IT COULD BE THROUGH THE AREA BY 9 PM LOCAL TIME. RADAR SHOWS AN AREA OF PRECIP MOVING THROUGH VENTURA COUNTY. THIS COULD PRODUCE BRIEF HEAVY RAIN WHEN IT GETS TO THE MOUNTAINS OF SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY. NAM INDICATES RAINFALL TOTALS SHOULD BE AROUND 1/4 INCH OR LESS AT THE COAST AND 1/4 TO 1/2 INCH IN THE VALLEYS...WITH NORTHERN AREAS RECEIVING MORE THAN SOUTHERN AREAS. BASED ON RADAR DATA...THESE SEEM LIKE REASONABLE NUMBERS. OROGRAPHICS WILL HELP TO PRODUCE MORE RAIN ON THE COASTAL MOUNTAIN SLOPES WITH LOCALLY NEAR 1 INCH POSSIBLE ON SOME SW FACING SLOPES. THE SNOW LEVEL WILL REMAIN HIGH...ABOVE 7000 FT...BUT COULD BRIEFLY LOWER TO 6000-6500 FEET BY SUN MORNING. THERE WILL BE A BRIEF BREAK BETWEEN SYSTEMS ON SUNDAY. A SECOND STRONGER STORM WITH A TRUE TROPICAL MOISTURE CONNECTION WILL MOVE IN SUN NIGHT AND MOVE THROUGH ON MON. RAINFALL AMOUNTS COULD EXCEED ONE INCH AT THE COAST AND TWO INCHES INLAND. OROGRAPHICS WILL ONCE AGAIN ENHANCE RAINFALL ON COASTAL MOUNTAIN SLOPES WITH UP TO 5 INCHES POSSIBLE SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY ON STEEP SW FACING COASTAL SLOPES IN SAN BERNARDINO AND ORANGE COUNTIES. AGAIN...GENERALLY MORE RAIN IS EXPECTED IN THE NORTH AND LESS IN THE SOUTH. HIGH DESERTS COULD GET UP TO ONE INCH...WITH GENERALLY LESS THAN 1/2 INCH IN THE SOUTHERN DESERTS. IF THE RAIN DEVELOPS AS EXPECTED THEN A FLASH FLOOD WATCH MAY BE NEEDED FOR THE COASTAL MOUNTAIN SLOPES AND BURN AREAS MONDAY. THIS STORM SHOULD BE QUITE A WIND EVENT...NOT ONLY IN THE MTNS/DESERTS BUT ALSO NEAR THE COAST DUE TO THE SURFACE PRESSURE GRADIENTS ASSOCIATED WITH AN UNUSUALLY DEEP LOW THAT WILL BE JUST TO OUR NW PLUS SUPPORT FROM WINDS ALOFT. LONGER RANGE PROGS INDICATE DRYING TUESDAY AS THE STORM MOVES EAST. BUILDING HIGH PRESSURE ALOFT AND OFFSHORE FLOW WILL BRING FAIR WEATHER WITH WARMER DAYS BUT COLDER NIGHTS DURING THE SECOND HALF OF NEXT WEEK. SLIGHT COOLING WILL OCCUR NEXT WEEKEND AS THE HIGH WEAKENS. && .AVIATION...APPARENT WARM FRONT MOVING THROUGH THE AREA THIS AFTERNOON WILL KEEP MULTIPLE LAYERS OF BROKEN CLOUDS WITH BASES RANGING FROM NEAR 1500 FEET MSL TO ABOVE 15000 FEET MSL. VISIBILITIES WILL REMAIN MOSTLY VFR EXCEPT LIGHT RAIN MAY REDUCE TO MVFR OR LOCAL IFR VISIBILITY CONDITIONS AT TIMES. A COLD FRONT WILL FOLLOW LATER THIS EVENING WITH CONTINUED MVFR TO LOCAL IFR CEILINGS AND VISIBILITIES IN CLOUDS AND PRECIPITATION. EXPECT MVFR CEILINGS AND VISIBILITIES TO LINGER BEHIND THE FRONT LATER TONIGHT WITH LOCAL IFR CONDITIONS BY MORNING BECOMING VFR TO MVFR BY LATE MORNING SUNDAY. A STRONGER FRONT WILL BRING IFR TO MVFR CONDITIONS IN CLOUDS AND PRECIPITATION LATE SUNDAY INTO MONDAY. STRONG SOUTHWEST WINDS ACROSS THE MOUNTAINS MAY BRING WAVE AND ROTOR ACTIVITY IN THE VICINITY OF THE KPSP/KTRM AIRPORTS THROUGH THE EVENING. && .MARINE... MORE LARGE SWELL WILL MOVE INTO THE COASTAL WATERS SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY AND CONTINUE TO BUILD INTO MONDAY NIGHT BEFORE SUBSIDING LATE TUESDAY. THIS WILL BRING ANOTHER PERIOD OF HIGH SURF AND POSSIBLE COASTAL FLOODING SO WILL ISSUE A COASTAL FLOOD WATCH THIS AFTERNOON FOR SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY MORNING. THE LARGE SWELL AND GUSTY WINDS WILL COMBINE TO BRING HAZARDOUS SEAS FOR SMALL CRAFT OVER THE COASTAL WATERS LATE SUNDAY AND MONDAY AS WELL. WILL HIGHLIGHT THIS IN A MARINE WEATHER STATEMENT FOR NOW. && .SGX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... HIGH WIND WARNING/WIND ADVISORY UNTIL 10 PM FOR MOUNTAINS/HIGH DESERTS. SEE LAXNPWSGX. URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY UNTIL 6 PM FOR THE NORTHERN MOUNTAINS...DESERTS AND PARTS OF THE INLAND EMPIRE. SEE LAXFLSSGX. MARINE WEATHER STATEMENT FOR DANGEROUS SEAS IN THE COASTAL WATERS ON MONDAY. SEE LAXMWSSGX. OVERVIEW OF THE 2 WEATHER SYSTEMS. SEE LAXSPSSGX AND LAXESFSGX. && PUBLIC...PG AVIATION...HORTON
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN DIEGO CA 400 AM PST SAT DEC 31 2005 CAZ042-043-048-050-055-056-057-058-060-061-062-010000- 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- 400 AM PST SAT DEC 31 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR ALL OF EXTREME SOUTHWESTERN CALIFORNIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY THROUGH TONIGHT. AT THE COAST...LARGE WEST SWELL WILL BRING HIGH SURF AND STRONG RIP CURRENTS TO THE SAN DIEGO COUNTY COASTLINE. SEE LAXSRFSGX AND LAXCFWSGX FOR DETAILS. IN THE MOUNTAINS AND HIGH DESERTS...STRONG GUSTY WINDS WILL OCCUR THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. SEE LAXNPWSGX FOR DETAILS. FOR ALL OF SOUTHWEST CALIFORNIA ON SATURDAY AND SATURDAY NIGHT...A PACIFIC SYSTEM MOVING THROUGH CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA MAY BRING MODERATE PRECIPITATION AT TIMES WITH THE POSSIBILITY OF MUD AND DEBRIS FLOWS IN BURN AREAS. HEAVIEST RAINFALL IS EXPECTED ON COASTAL SLOPES. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY. AT THE COAST FOR SUNDAY THROUGH MONDAY...LARGE WEST SWELL WILL BRING HIGH SURF AND STRONG RIP CURRENTS THROUGH SATURDAY. SEE LAXSRFSGX AND LAXCFWSGX FOR DETAILS. FOR ALL OF SOUTHWEST CALIFORNIA ON SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT...A STRONGER PACIFIC STORM SYSTEM WILL MOVE THROUGH CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA AND BRING STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND HEAVY RAINFALL WITH THE POTENTIAL FOR FLASH FLOODING. HEAVIEST RAINFALL IS EXPECTED ON COASTAL SLOPES. SEE LAXSPSSGX FOR DETAILS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...SKYWARN WEATHER SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT REQUESTED FOR THIS AREA...HOWEVER WEATHER SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER CONDITIONS ACCORDING TO STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURES. MAXWELL
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
The Burns Canyon Raws measured a wind gust of 72 mph from a winter storm.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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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: 5483566.