Heavy Rain — Sonoma, California
2008-12-16 · near Sonoma, Sonoma, California
1
Direct deaths
$25K
Property damage
Event narrative
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.
Wider weather episode
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.
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Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 148057. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.