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At least 25 people have been killed and more than 40,000 acres burned as the wildfires race through southern California for ... disaster in California history. ... gusts, wind speeds dropped. ...
Dozens of instances of large hail, damaging wind gusts, and multiple tornadoes were confirmed with this event, including an EF2 tornado that killed a person in Cheyenne, Oklahoma. A 114 mph (183 km/h) wind gust from straight-line winds was reported in Memphis, Texas, which was the highest wind gust since the August 2020 Midwest derecho.
The Santa Anas are katabatic winds (Greek for "flowing downhill") arising in higher altitudes and blowing down towards sea level. [7] The National Weather Service defines Santa Ana winds as "a weather condition [in southern California] in which strong, hot, dust-bearing winds descend to the Pacific Coast around Los Angeles from inland desert regions".
The events included Santa Ana winds of exceptional intensity, with forecasted gusts reaching 50 to 80 miles per hour (80 to 130 km/h; 22 to 36 m/s) in populated areas of the Los Angeles and Ventura counties, including the San Gabriel Valley and the Los Angeles Basin which in prior wind events had been protected by their lower elevations.
"Wind gusts are expected to peak at 30-50 mph across portions of Southern California" according to Fieweger. This would be the case for communities like Santa Clarita and Riverside.
Red flag warnings are in place for Southern California due to Santa Ana winds that will bring gusts up to 65 mph and “extremely rare and dangerous” fire weather conditions.
Winds from the storm gusting up to 61 mph (98 km/h) [30] resulted in power outages for over 170,000 customers, around the Seattle metropolitan area and around Puget Sound. [ 6 ] [ 4 ] The highest winds recorded in Washington state were 85 mph (137 km/h) gusts on the Long Beach Peninsula .
On Sunday morning, a wind gust of 73 mph was reported by the National Weather Service near Crestline, California, representing the strongest wind gust from the Santa Ana event thus far.