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High Wind in E Central S.j. Valley, California

High Wind January 6, 2019 · E Central S.j. Valley, California

61 mph
Measured gust (53 kt)

What the National Weather Service wrote

The AWOS at the Castle Airport in Atwater reported a peak wind gust of 61 mph.

The wider storm

The second of a series of winter storms moved through central California from the afternoon of January 6 through the early morning of January 7. While this storm produced another round of rain and higher elevation snow across the area with many locations in the southern Sierra Nevada picking up between 1 to 2 inches of liquid precipitation, the main impact from this storm was strong winds were most noticed across the San Joaquin Valley where several trees and power lines were blown down or knocked over.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 792094. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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