High Wind — Indian Wells Vly, California

2019-01-06 · Indian Wells Vly, California

Event narrative

California Highway Patrol reported an empty semi truck was blown over just west of the Inyokern Airport.

Wider weather episode

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_id 792113. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.