Strong Wind — Kern Mtns, California

1999-12-07 · Kern Mtns, California

Wider weather episode

Relatively strong gradient wind over Interior Central California brought advisory level winds to broad areas of the Kern County Mountain and Desert areas. While desert wind was generally in the 35 to 41 knot range...Mojave did have very localized high west-northwest wind at 60 gusting to 80Kt at 1426 PST. Edwards AFB reported the peak wind for the day from the west at 34 knots at 1658 PST with China Lake at 43 knots from the west-southwest at 41 knots at 1453 PST. Mojave wind jumped from 10 knots gusting to 40 knots as early as 0847 PST. Mountain wind peaked later in the day at 2252 PST with reports of gusts to 43 knots from the NNW (Sandberg, CA).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 5721701. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.