High Wind, Kern County Desert
- When
- January 28, 4:20 PM PST
- Where
- Kern County Desert forecast zone
- Measured
- 53 kt (61 mph) measured gust
- Reported by
- AWOS
The Mojave Airport AWOS measured a peak wind gust of 61 mph.
High Wind in California, January 28, 2020
A strong low pressure system pushed through the Pacific Northwest on January 28 which was accompanied by strong cold front which pushed southward through California during the day. As this front moved through central California during the afternoon, a period of gusty winds accompanied the front across the mountains and deserts of Kern County with several stations measuring peak gusts exceeding…
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.
A strong low pressure system pushed through the Pacific Northwest on January 28 which was accompanied by strong cold front which pushed southward through California during the day. As this front moved through central California during the afternoon, a period of gusty winds accompanied the front across the mountains and deserts of Kern County with several stations measuring peak gusts exceeding 40 mph; and several stations on the lee side of the Tehachapi mountains briefly measuring peak gusts exceeding 50 mph. The winds slowly decreased overnight.
Event by event
1 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- High Wind
- Sustained non-thunderstorm winds of 40 mph or more for an hour, or gusts of 58 mph or more.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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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 2026-10-01. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 866586.