Dense Fog, Kern Cty Mtns
- When
- February 20, 6:15 PM PST to February 21, 12:35 AM PST
- Where
- Kern Cty Mtns forecast zone
- Reported by
- AWOS
Tehachapi Airport AWOS (KTSP) reported visibility values of less than 1/4 mile.
Dense Fog in California, February 20 to 21, 2016
Northerly upslope winds over the Kern County mountains allowed for clouds to develop and bank along the northern slopes of the Kern County mountains creating dense fog conditions on the evening of February 20th into the morning of February 21st.
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 1
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.
Northerly upslope winds over the Kern County mountains allowed for clouds to develop and bank along the northern slopes of the Kern County mountains creating dense fog conditions on the evening of February 20th into the morning of February 21st.
Event by event
1 dense fog. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Dense Fog
- Fog reducing visibility to a quarter mile or less, filed where it caused accidents or disruption.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Flash Flood and Flooding in Iowa, February 20 to 26, 2016
- Dense Fog in Illinois, February 20, 2016
- High Surf in Guam, February 20 to 25, 2016
- Dense Fog in California, February 20 to 21, 2016
- Dense Fog in Indiana, February 20, 2016
- Dense Fog in Missouri, February 20, 2016
- Hail in Missouri, February 20, 2016
- Dense Fog in Kentucky, February 20, 2016
- Heavy Snow in Alaska, February 20 to 21, 2016
- Hail in Illinois, February 20, 2016
- High Wind in Alaska, February 20 to 21, 2016
More
Every storm in California in 2016Every state in 2016This day in weather historyWarnings in California, February 2016
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 2026-09-30. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 621596.