High Wind in Morongo Basin, California

High Wind August 20, 2023 · Morongo Basin, California

66 mph

Measured gust (57 kt)

$5K

Damage as recorded

What the National Weather Service wrote

This gust blew part of the roof off of a house 2 miles WSW of Twentynine Palms.

The wider storm

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 1138485. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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