High Wind — Morongo Basin, California

2023-08-20 · Morongo Basin, California

Wider weather episode

Eastern Pacific Hurricane Hilary made landfall on the Baja Peninsula early on the morning of the 20th and reached Southern California as a tropical storm that afternoon. The cyclone brought widespread flash flooding to southeast California, along with isolated high winds.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 1137074. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.