Heavy Rain in Solano County, California

Heavy Rain January 18, 1998 · Solano County, California

The wider storm

0.75 inches of rain in 6 hours in downtown Sacramento was one of the lighter rainfall totals as a Pacific storm brought brief but heavy rain to the Sacramento and Northern San Joaquin Valleys and surrounding foothills. 27,000 customers across the area lost power at sometime during the storm. Numerous traffic accidents also occurred, including one near Loomis, CA in which two teens were drowned as their car flipped into a flooded ditch.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 5633149. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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