California storm events
Tornadoes, hurricanes, hail, and severe storms recorded in California between 1950 and 2025, sourced from NOAA's Storm Events Database.
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476
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Significant recent events in California
Events with deaths, multiple injuries, $1M+ property damage, or EF3+ tornadoes.
Two ski patrollers working avalanche mitigation on Lincoln Mountain at the Mammoth Mountain ski resort were injured and transported to hospitals due to an avalanche. One of the ski patrollers died on Sunday Dec. 28 after being seriously injured in the avalanche from Friday Dec. 2…
Around 3 PM PST on December 26th, a vehicle hydroplaned and crashed on Interstate 5 in Williams, CA in heavy rain. Initially there were 2 minor injuries and 2 critical injuries, but later one of the critical injuries was updated to a fatality.
Numerous homes across various communities in Lytle Creek experienced flash flooding and feet of mud/debris in and around the properties. Media reported about 30 homes were red tagged - deemed unsafe to inhabit.
Several hours of rain rates over 1/hr resulted in severe flash flooding and debris flow in Wrightwood. Numerous vehicles were trapped in mud/flood waters and creek bridge crossings, with several houses overtaken by mud and debris flow. Evacuation warnings were issued by San Berna…
A man was killed after a large tree fell on him in the City Heights neighborhood of San Diego. Winds were gusting to 40 mph in the area at the time of the report.
California Highway Patrol reported a weather related fatality event with an SUV crashing into a power pole on Franklin Boulevard due to wet roads.
A Convergence Zone set up over Redding/Shasta County around 1 PM on Sunday, December 21. Heavy rain fell until around 7 PM, where there was a lull before another line redeveloped and brought additional moderate to heavy rain into the late evening. County officials reported numero…
An 87-year old male died from hypothermia near the Alum Rock neighborhood of San Jose on the morning of December 20, with hypertensive cardiovascular disease as a contributing factor. The low temperature at San Jose International Airport that day was 60, but this is likely to be …
A 32-year old man died after drowning off Bean Hollow State Beach in southern San Mateo County. California State Parks was informed of a possible drowning around 3:25 PM on December 3, when a woman told them that she and her husband were fishing on the rocks, when the woman went …
A 35-year old man and two women were hit by a large wave on November 22. The two women were able to self-rescue, but the man was not. Just after 3 PM, the Monterey County Sheriff's Office and California State Parks launched a rescue effort for the man. Around 4:24 PM, a U.S. Coas…
Two people died after a family of four was swept out to sea at Garrapata Beach on November 14th by a wave estimated at 15 to 20 feet high. An off-duty state park lifeguard noticed the family in distress around 12:50 PM, and pulled a father and mother towards shore. A seven-year o…
California Highway Patrol reported that a 71 year old man drowned after his car was swept into a creek crossing as a bridge flooded on Fifield Road in Pleasant Grove in Sutter County due to heavy rain.
Shortly after 9AM on November 5, 2025, rescue crews were deployed to The Hook near Capitola as two surfers were reported in distress. One surfer was able to make it past the line of breaking waves, while the other was caught in them. When the surfer was pulled from the water, the…
Flash flooding on Main Street between Lenwood Road and Sweeten Lane swept away a car, killing a two-year old boy and injuring his father.
The TCU September Lightning Complex began as a series of lightning fire starts on the morning of September 2nd across 4 counties, Calaveras, San Joaquin, Stanislaus and Tuolumne. The largest fires are the 6-5 fire and the 2-7 fire, with total acreage burned at 13,966 Acres. There…
Counties and zones
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Alameda (237)
Alameda / Contra Costa (22)
Alameda / Contra Costa Counties (1)
Alpine (44)
Amador (28)
Antelope Valley (64)
Apple and Lucerne Valleys (178)
Apple and Yucca Valleys (46)
Bakersfield (166)
Big Sur Coast (1)
Buena Vista (47)
Burney Basin/eastern Shasta County (111)
Butte (177)
Buttonwillow- Lost Hills - I5 (65)
C & E Glenn/colusa T X W/n Sutter/sw Yuba/butte T X E (16)
C & Sw Kern (2)
C Los Angeles (13)
C Riverside (18)
C San Diego (9)
C Ventura (11)
Cadiz Basin (41)
Calabasas and Agoura Hills (2)
Calaveras (45)
Carquinez Strait and Delta (91)
Caruthers - San Joaquin - Selma (127)
Catalina Island (2)
Catalina and Santa Barbara Islands (5)
Caz011 - 012 - 013 (1)
Caz013 - 018 (1)
Caz013 - 018 - 019 (1)
Caz014 - 015 - 019 (2)
Caz019 (1)
Cazall (1)
Central Sacramento Valley (126)
Central San Joaquin Valley (22)
Central Sierra (69)
Central Sierra Foothills (51)
Central Siskiyou County (309)
Central Sjv (20)
Central Ventura County Valleys (2)
Chiriaco Summit (39)
Chuckwalla Mountains (27)
Chuckwalla Valley (53)
Clear Lake/berryessa Highlands (2)
Clear Lake/southern Lake County (46)
Coachella Valley (255)
Coalinga - Avenal (48)
Coastal Del Norte (72)
Coastal Monterey County (9)
Coastal North Bay Including Point Reyes National Seashore (133)
Colusa (35)
Contra Costa (107)
Cuyama Valley (15)
Death Valley National Park (83)
Del Norte (46)
Del Norte Interior (41)
Delano - Wasco - Shafter (109)
E & Sc Kern (1)
E Central S.j. Valley (529)
E Central Sj Valley (78)
E Fresno/madera T Sw/mariposa/se Tuolumne (8)
E Inyo (1)
E Nevada/e Placer/e El Dorado/ne Alpine (251)
E Riverside T X E (2)
East Bay Hills (17)
East Bay Hills and the Diablo Range (137)
East Bay Interior Valleys (135)
East Central San Joaquin Valley (3)
Eastern Kern County (17)
Eastern Mojave Desert (69)
Eastern San Joaquin Valley in Kern County (32)
Eastern Santa Clara Hills (3)
Eastern Sierra Slopes of Inyo County (176)
El Dorado (234)
Est Antelope Valley Foothills (2)
Est San Fernando Valley (1)
Est San Gabriel Mountains (19)
Est Santa Monica Mountains (6)
Foggy Bottom (98)
Fort Tejon (42)
Frazier Mountain Communities (50)
Fresno (855)
Fresno - Clovis (136)
Fresno - Tulare Foothills (41)
Fresno - Tulare Lower Sierra (27)
Glenn (49)
Grant Grove Area (43)
Grapevine (84)
Greater Lake Tahoe Area (787)
Hanford - Corcoran - Lemoore (187)
Humboldt (228)
Imperial (255)
Imperial County Except the Lower Colorado River Valley (31)
Imperial County Southeast (38)
Imperial County Southwest (42)
Imperial County West (55)
Imperial Valley (89)
Indian Wells Valley (137)
Indian Wells Vly (278)
Inyo (297)
Inyo County Deserts (1)
Joshua Tree National Park (3)
Joshua Tree Np East (37)
Joshua Tree Np West (21)
Kaiser To Rodgers Ridge (114)
Kern (815)
Kern County Desert (106)
Kern County Mountains (10)
Kern Cty Mtns (570)
Kern Deserts (6)
Kern Mtns (8)
Kern River Valley (54)
Kings (155)
Kings Canyon Np (93)
Kings and Fresno (1)
Kings/w Tulare/nw Kern (10)
Lake (49)
Lake Isabella (107)
Lake T N & X Sw/w Yolo/x Sw Colusa/e Napa/x Nw Solano (8)
Lassen (112)
Lassen/eastern Plumas/eastern Sierra (461)
Los Angeles (471)
Los Angeles County Beaches (1)
Los Angeles County Coasts Including Downtown Los Angeles (29)
Los Angeles County Mountains (14)
Los Angeles County Mountains Excluding the Santa Monica Range (263)
Los Angeles County San Fernando Valley (25)
Los Angeles County San Gabriel Valley (9)
Los Angeles County Valleys (23)
Los Banos-dos Palos (59)
Lower Colorado River Valley (6)
Madera (204)
Madera and Fresno (1)
Madera, Merced and Fresno (1)
Malibu Coast (7)
Marin (167)
Marin Coastal Range (15)
Mariposa (251)
Mariposa - Madera Foothills (38)
Mariposa - Madera Lower Sierra (79)
Mendocino (132)
Mendocino Coast (107)
Mendocino Interior (54)
Merced (248)
Merced and Madera (86)
Merced-madera-mendota (189)
Merced/sw Madera/w Fresno (4)
Modoc (34)
Modoc County (212)
Modoc County Except Surprise Valley (2)
Modoc T X E (17)
Mojave Desert (42)
Mojave Desert Slope(s) (354)
Mono (896)
Monterey (241)
Monterey Bay/n Salinas Valley/hollister Valley/carmel Valley (11)
Monterey T X W / San Benito (10)
Morongo Basin (120)
Motherlode/camptonville To Goverland (8)
Motherlode/camptonville To Groveland (169)
Mountains Southwest Shasta County To Northern Lake County (67)
Mountains Southwestern Shasta County To Western Colusa County (74)
Mountains of San Benito County and Interior Monterey County (1)
Mountains of San Benito County and Interior Monterey County Including Pinnacles National Monument (3)
Mountains of San Benito County and Interior Monterey County Including Pinnacles National Park (35)
Mt Shasta/western Plumas County (259)
N Los Angeles T X N (42)
N Ventura (33)
Napa (91)
Napa County (4)
Nc Riverside (2)
Ne & Ec Shasta (16)
Ne Orange (32)
Nevada (125)
North Bay Interior Mountains (13)
North Bay Interior Valleys (208)
North Bay Mountains (152)
North Central & Southeast Siskiyou County (157)
North Coast Interior (79)
North Kings River (40)
Northeast Foothills/sacramento Valley (121)
Northeast Siskiyou and Northwest Modoc Counties (147)
Northeastern Mendocino Interior (6)
Northern Humboldt Coast (155)
Northern Humboldt Interior (114)
Northern Lake County (10)
Northern Monterey Bay (129)
Northern Sacramento Valley (197)
Northern Salinas Valley / Hollister Valley / Carmel Valley (50)
Northern San Joaquin Valley (164)
Northern Trinity (145)
Northern Ventura County Mountains (5)
Northwestern Los Angeles County Mountains Including the Interstate 5 Corridor (17)
Northwestern Mendocino Interior (106)
Nw & Nc Shasta (14)
Orange (381)
Orange County Coastal (158)
Orange County Coastal Areas (92)
Orange County Coastal Plain (36)
Orange County Inland (104)
Owens Valley (310)
P C Santa Barbara (17)
P Sc Shasta/c Tehama (15)
P Sc Shasta/e Tehama T X E/x E Butte/x Sw Plumas (7)
P Sw San Bernardino (41)
P W Riverside (22)
Palo Verde Valley (44)
Piute - Walker Pass (basin?) (28)
Placer (159)
Planada-legrand-snelling (59)
Plumas (119)
Redwood Coast (101)
Riverside (927)
Riverside County Eastern Deserts (8)
Riverside County Mountains (231)
Riverside County Valley/the Inland Empire (43)
S Sierra Foothills (178)
S Sierra Mtns (526)
S Solano/s Napa/x Sw Sacramento/nw San Joaquin (10)
S Ventura T X S (12)
Sacramento (218)
Salinas Valley/interior Monterey County/san Benito County (3)
Salton Sea (36)
San Benito (36)
San Bernardino (1,606)
San Bernardino County Deserts (2)
San Bernardino County Mountains (460)
San Bernardino County Valley/the Inland Empire (54)
San Bernardino County-upper Colorado River Valley (52)
San Bernardino T Sw & X Se (11)
San Bernardino and Riverside County Valleys - the Inland Empire (372)
San Diego (1,098)
San Diego County Coastal Areas (385)
San Diego County Coasts (51)
San Diego County Deserts (119)
San Diego County Mountains (406)
San Diego County Valleys (257)
San Diego T X W (31)
San Francisco (295)
San Francisco / San Mateo / Santa Cruz (3)
San Francisco Bay Shoreline (201)
San Francisco County (3)
San Francisco Peninsula Coast (123)
San Gorgonio Pass Near Banning (79)
San Joaquin (102)
San Joaquin Confluence (41)
San Joaquin River Canyon (18)
San Joaquin T Nw/stanislaus/x Sw Tuolumne/sw Calaveras (17)
San Luis Obispo (77)
San Luis Obispo County Beaches (2)
San Luis Obispo County Central Coast (17)
San Luis Obispo County Interior Valleys (29)
San Luis Obispo County Mountains (32)
San Luis Obispo T Sc & X W (4)
San Mateo (176)
San Mateo Co. (1)
San Miguel and Santa Rosa Islands (4)
Santa Ana Mountains and Foothills (238)
Santa Barbara (143)
Santa Barbara County Central Coast (26)
Santa Barbara County Central Coast Beaches (1)
Santa Barbara County Inland Central Coast (1)
Santa Barbara County Interior Mountains (7)
Santa Barbara County Mountains (108)
Santa Barbara County South Coast (56)
Santa Barbara County Southwestern Coast (5)
Santa Clara (269)
Santa Clara Valley Including San Jose (92)
Santa Clarita Valley (63)
Santa Cruz (212)
Santa Cruz Co. (2)
Santa Cruz Mountains (187)
Santa Cruz and Anacapa Islands (3)
Santa Lucia Mountains (11)
Santa Lucia Mountains and Los Padres National Forest (54)
Santa Monica Mountains (8)
Santa Monica Mountains Recreation Area (92)
Santa Susana Mountains (12)
Santa Ynez Mountains Eastern Range (8)
Santa Ynez Mountains Western Range (2)
Santa Ynez Valley (19)
Sc San Luis Obispo (4)
Se Kern Cty Desert (360)
Se S.j. Valley (492)
Se Sj Valley (70)
Sequoia Kings (38)
Sequoia Np (86)
Shasta (190)
Shasta Lake/north Shasta County (163)
Sierra (60)
Siskiyou (147)
Siskiyou County (3)
Solano (50)
Sonoma (412)
Sonoma / Marin (23)
Sonoma / Marin Counties (4)
Sonoma Coastal Range (6)
Sonoma/marin Counties (2)
South Central Siskiyou County (368)
South End San Joaquin Valley (58)
South End Sierra Foothills (38)
South End of the Lower Sierra (28)
South End of the Upper Sierra (239)
South Sierra Foothills (5)
South Sierra Mountains (8)
South Sjv (16)
Southeast Kern County Desert (3)
Southeast San Joaquin Valley (54)
Southeastern Mendocino Interior (24)
Southeastern Ventura County Valleys (5)
Southern Humboldt Interior (179)
Southern Kings County (37)
Southern Lake County (49)
Southern Monterey Bay and Big Sur Coast (162)
Southern Sacramento Valley (206)
Southern Salinas Valley / Arroyo Seco / Lake San Antonio (31)
Southern San Joaquin Valley (24)
Southern Sierra Foothills (18)
Southern Sierra Nevada Mountains (2)
Southern Sierra Nevada-yosemite National Park To Kings Canyon (9)
Southern Trinity (132)
Southern Ventura County Mountains (5)
Southest Ventura County Valleys (5)
Southwest San Joaquin Valley (3)
Southwestern Humboldt (70)
Southwestern Mendocino Interior (20)
Stanislaus (76)
Surprise Valley (57)
Sutter (33)
Sw S.j. Valley (512)
Sw Shasta/w Tehama/w Glenn/x Nw Colusa/n Lake (12)
Sw Sj Valley (75)
Tehachapi (181)
Tehachapi Area (166)
Tehama (133)
Trinity (72)
Tulare (469)
Tulare County (81)
Tulare County Foothills (5)
Tulare County Mountains (11)
Tulare Cty Foothills (78)
Tulare Cty Mtns (361)
Tulare Mtns (5)
Tuolumne (66)
Upper San Joaquin River (133)
Upper Trinity River (77)
Ventura (163)
Ventura County Beaches (1)
Ventura County Coast (35)
Ventura County Coastal Valleys (60)
Ventura County Inland Coast (2)
Ventura County Interior Valleys (31)
Ventura County Mountains (196)
Visalia - Porterville - Reedley (177)
W & C Imperial (5)
W Central S.j. Valley (434)
W Central Sj Valley (71)
W Inyo (56)
W Riverside T X Nw (28)
W Santa Barbara (37)
W Sierra T X W/c Nevada/c Placer/c El Dorado/e Amador/ne Calaveras/c & Ne Tuolumne/sw Alpine (32)
W/s Orange (23)
West Central San Joaquin Valley (4)
West Side Hills (34)
West Side Mountains North of Highway 198 (81)
West Side Mountains South of Highway 198 (57)
West Side of Fresno and Kings Counties (119)
West Slope Northern Sierra Nevada (523)
West Slope Northern Sierra Nevada/sierra County South (3)
Western Antelope Valley Foothills (6)
Western Kern County (11)
Western Mojave Desert (186)
Western San Fernando Valley (5)
Western San Gabriel Mountains Including the Highway 14 Corridor (20)
Western San Joaquin Valley (59)
Western San Joaquin Valley in Kern County (29)
Western Santa Monica Mountains (8)
Western Siskiyou County (304)
White Mountains of Inyo County (5)
X E Modoc (11)
X E Riverside / E Imperial (3)
X N Los Angeles (9)
X N Santa Barbara (3)
X S Santa Barbara (22)
X S Ventura (28)
X Se Los Angeles (29)
X Se Shasta/x E Tehama/w Plumas T X Sw (28)
X Sw Los Angeles (11)
X Sw San Bernardino (38)
X W Monterey (5)
X W San Diego (40)
X W San Diego Valley (24)
X W San Luis Obispo (47)
X W Sierra/ne Yuba/w Nevada/w Placer T X W/w El Dorado/w Amador T X W/c Calaveras/sw Tuolumne T X Sw (10)
Ynp / South Siernv (9)
Yolo (69)
Yolo T W/ne Solano/sacramento T X Sw/x W Placer/x W Amador/s Sutter (25)
Yolo, Solano, San Joaquin, Sacramento and Stanislaus (1)
Yosemite Np Outside of the Valley (165)
Yosemite Valley (21)
Yuba (37)