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High Wind in Kern River Valley, California
High Wind March 14, 2024 · Kern River Valley, California
What the National Weather Service wrote
The Southern California Edison station at Onyx Canebrake measured a peak wind gust of 62 mph.
The wider storm
An upper low pressure system dropped slowly southward over Nevada and into southeast California on March 14. This low produced strong northeast winds over the Sierra Nevada and the Kern County Desert areas. Several stations measured winds gusts exceeding 45 mph with some stations picking up gusts in excess of 60 mph. The winds decreased in intensity by the evening of March 14 and dissipated by the afternoon of March 15.
Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1156366. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.
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