A large west-northwest swell brought elevated surf to west-facing Orange and San Diego County beaches on the 19th and 20th. The highest surf occurred in northern Orange County, near and north of Newport Beach.
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.
A large west-northwest swell brought elevated surf to west-facing Orange and San Diego County beaches on the 19th and 20th. The highest surf occurred in northern Orange County, near and north of Newport Beach.
1 high surf. Local standard time, as filed.
Surfline reported 5 to 8 foot surf on the 19th and 20th at Huntington Beach, Newport Beach, and Salt Creek Beach.
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