Westerly flow with an upper level jet ahead of a nearly stationary west to east orientated cold front over central California brought strong winds to the higher elevations of the Kern County Mountains and allowed gusty winds to develop over parts of the Kern County Desert.
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 HNX wrote it up.
Westerly flow with an upper level jet ahead of a nearly stationary west to east orientated cold front over central California brought strong winds to the higher elevations of the Kern County Mountains and allowed gusty winds to develop over parts of the Kern County Desert.
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 Oct 15, 2:34 PM PST, 23 hours 58 minutes earlier.
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</html>3 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Report received from Blue Max (TR518) RAWS station of 23-47 mph sustained winds between 10/16 1432 PST and 10/17 0632 PST with a peak wind gust of 81 mph at 0432 PST.
Report received from Jawbone Canyon (JWBC1) RAWS station of 42-53 mph sustained winds between 10/17 0314 PST and 10/17 1014 PST with a peak wind gust of 69 mph at 0414 PST.
Report received from Cache Creek NR6G-6 (AU563) APRS station of 28-31 mph sustained winds between 10/17 0658 PST and 10/17 0705 PST with a peak wind gust of 59 mph at 0658 PST.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in California in 2016Every state in 2016This day in weather historyWarnings in California, October 2016
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 2026-10-01. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 660008, 660009, 660010.