Heavy Rain in Sonoma County, California

Heavy Rain December 16, 2008 · Sonoma County, California

Death

$25K

Damage as recorded

Where the report was made, with tornadoes recorded within 15 miles over the years.

What the National Weather Service wrote

Heavy rain caused a fatality of a 32 year-old man when his vehicle collided with another vehicle. Highways 116 and 121 were closed for about three hours after the collision.

The wider storm

A cold core low pressure system produced winter storm conditions causing low elevation snow, minor flooding and isolated strong wind through the period December 15 through 17, 2009. Snow amounts ranged from a few inches in the hills around the San Francisco Bay Area to as high as nine inches at Mount Hamilton.

Began near Sonoma (38.2565, -122.4849).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 148057. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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