High Wind — Southwestern Humboldt, California
2024-02-04 to 2024-02-05 · Southwestern Humboldt, California
71 MG
Magnitude
Event narrative
PG&E and RAWS stations in southwestern Humboldt reported wind gusts between 60 and 82 mph overnight.
Wider weather episode
A cyclone bombed very close to the central California coast developing widespread damaging wind gusts across Mendocino and Lake counties. Heavy rain also was observed with some of the highest flows on creeks in Lake County in the last several years. The low then moved north off of the extreme northwestern California coast bringing strong gusts into Humboldt and Del Norte counties as well, though damage was limited.
Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 1151452. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.