NHC HURDAT2 · SPC Tornado Database
Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Elverta, CA
Every tropical system within 75 miles since 1851 and every tornado within 25 miles since 1950.
Data: NOAA NHC HURDAT2 and NOAA SPC tornado and hail reports, through 2025 · Updated
No tropical storm or hurricane has passed within 75 miles of Elverta, California since records began in 1851. Since 1950, 27 tornadoes have touched down within 25 miles, 0 of them rated EF3 or stronger.
- Hurricanes
- 0
- Tropical storms
- 0
- Tornadoes
- 27
- EF3 or stronger
- 0
within 75 mi, since 1851
below hurricane strength
within 25 mi, since 1950
no recorded deaths
What the records show for Elverta
The strongest of the 27 tornadoes within 25 miles was an F2 on February 7, 1978; its path came within 1 mile. Of the 27, 3 had paths within 5 miles of the city centre, and 19 have come since 2000. February has had the most tornadoes, 8. The most recent tornado was on September 28, 2019. Elverta has more tornadoes within 25 miles than 78% of the 705 California cities on this site. Hail has been reported within 10 miles 5 times since 2005, with stones up to 0.88 inches (nickel size). Elverta has more hail reports within 10 miles than 62% of the 705 California cities.
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Tornadoes within 25 miles of Elverta
By decade
- 2010s13
- 2000s6
- 1990s2
- 1980s4
- 1970s2
| Date | Rating | Distance | Path | Killed / injured |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 7, 1978 | F2 | 1 mi | 1.9 mi | 0 / 0 |
| Dec 24, 2015 | EF1 | 18 mi | 6.21 mi | 0 / 0 |
| Oct 22, 2012 | EF1 | 23 mi | 1.02 mi | 0 / 0 |
| Oct 22, 2012 | EF1 | 25 mi | 0.29 mi | 0 / 0 |
| Oct 22, 2012 | EF1 | 25 mi | 2 mi | 0 / 0 |
| Apr 19, 1988 | F1 | 16 mi | 1 mi | 0 / 0 |
| Mar 22, 1983 | F1 | 6 mi | 2 mi | 0 / 0 |
| Sep 28, 2019 | EF0 | 19 mi | 1.7 mi | 0 / 0 |
| Feb 2, 2019 | EF0 | 25 mi | 0.3 mi | 0 / 0 |
| Mar 21, 2018 | EF0 | 21 mi | 1 mi | 0 / 0 |
| Jan 11, 2017 | EF0 | 7 mi | 0.42 mi | 0 / 0 |
| Jan 9, 2017 | EF0 | 11 mi | 0.18 mi | 0 / 0 |
The strongest 12 of 27, by rating and then by deaths. Ratings before February 2007 are on the original Fujita scale.
Hail in Elverta
The Storm Prediction Center has 5 hail reports within 10 miles of Elverta since 2005, made on 4 separate days. None of them reached 1 inch. The largest, 0.88 inches (nickel size), fell on March 20, 2019, the most recent report.
Source: NOAA Storm Prediction Center severe weather reports, data through 2025.
Weather by month in Elverta
The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is Sacramento Metro Airport, CA, 8 miles west of Elverta at 23 feet. July is the warmest, with an average high of 94°F and low of 59°F; December is the coolest, at 55°F and 37°F. January is the wettest at 3.7 inches of precipitation on average and July the driest at 0.0 inches; the year adds up to 17.9 inches over 36 days with at least a tenth of an inch. Highs reach 90°F on about 84 days a year, almost all from April to October. Lows fall below freezing on about 23 nights a year. That 17.9 inches is more than at 127 of the 226 California stations used on this site (56%). Antelope, 5 miles east, has its own station (Sacramento 5 ESE, CA): 19.2 inches a year, 1.3 more than here, and the same July average high, 94°F.
| Month | High °F | Low °F | Precip. in | Days ≥ 0.1" |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan | 55 | 38 | 3.7 | 6 |
| Feb | 60 | 40 | 3.5 | 7 |
| Mar | 66 | 43 | 2.6 | 6 |
| Apr | 72 | 46 | 1.2 | 3 |
| May | 81 | 52 | 0.6 | 2 |
| Jun | 89 | 56 | 0.2 | 1 |
| Jul | 94 | 59 | 0.0 | 0 |
| Aug | 92 | 58 | 0.1 | 0 |
| Sep | 89 | 55 | 0.1 | 0 |
| Oct | 79 | 48 | 0.8 | 2 |
| Nov | 64 | 41 | 1.8 | 4 |
| Dec | 55 | 37 | 3.3 | 7 |
| Year | 75 | 48 | 17.9 | 36 |
Averages for 1991–2020 at Sacramento Metro Airport, CA (23 ft), from NOAA NCEI U.S. Climate Normals. Normals describe the station; the farther a place is from it, and the bigger the difference in height, the more its weather can differ.
Floods, thunderstorm wind and lightning near Elverta
Since 1996, the National Weather Service has logged 64 flood, rain, thunderstorm wind and lightning events that began within 10 miles of Elverta: 61 floods, 2 thunderstorm wind reports and 1 heavy rain event. They killed 1 person and injured 0, and the NWS estimated $11.0 million in property and crop damage. The strongest thunderstorm gust on record here was 81 mph, on September 2, 2025.
November 14, 2025: flood 7 miles from the centre of Elverta — 1 killed.
NWS: “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.”
January 1, 2023: flood 10 miles from the centre of Elverta — $11.0 million damage.
NWS: “Yolo County completed a preliminary estimate of damage from flooding, which is around $11 million in damages for the county and its partners.”
Source: NOAA NCEI Storm Events Database, events whose starting point is on record, 1996 to June 30, 2026. Damage is the NWS estimate in the dollars of the year, not insured losses, and NWS notes that some reports are unverified.
Flood insurance claims, disaster declarations and FEMA risk ratings
Flood insurance policyholders in Elverta's ZIP code 95626 have filed 14 claims with the National Flood Insurance Program since 1986, and were paid $303,000 for buildings and contents, in the dollars of each year. The most came from Flooding in 1995: 11 claims (79% of all) and $297,000. 79% of the claims carry the name of a storm or flood event; the rest have no event name. Of the 415 California cities on this site with 10 or more claims, 36 have fewer than Elverta.
| Event | Claims | Paid |
|---|---|---|
| Flooding1995 | 11 | $297,000 |
Sacramento County, which includes Elverta, has been named in 23 federal disaster or emergency declarations since 1964, 17 of them major disasters (by incident: 9 floods, 7 severe storms, 2 biological emergencies, 2 coastal storms). The latest major disaster declaration was Severe Winter Storms, Straight-Line Winds, Flooding, Landslides, and Mudslides, on April 3, 2023. FEMA's National Risk Index gives Sacramento County a Relatively High rating for natural hazard risk overall; by hazard: Relatively High for inland flooding; Relatively Moderate for tornadoes, lightning and heat waves; Relatively Low for hail; Very Low for strong wind. It models the county's expected loss from all 18 hazards it covers at $352.4 million a year, the 18th highest of 58 California counties; of the hazards above, the largest share, $215.7 million (61%), is from inland flooding.
Claims: FEMA, OpenFEMA Dataset FIMA NFIP Redacted Claims – v3, summed over ZIP codes; payments in the dollars of each year, not adjusted for inflation. Declarations: Disaster Declarations Summaries – v2, by county. Retrieved October 25, 2026. This product uses the Federal Emergency Management Agency's OpenFEMA API, but is not endorsed by FEMA. The Federal Government or FEMA cannot vouch for the data or analyses derived from these data after the data have been retrieved from the Agency's website(s).
Risk ratings: FEMA, National Risk Index county table, December 2025 (v1.20), retrieved October 26, 2026; ratings compare counties nationwide, are meant for planning and are no substitute for a local risk assessment. This product uses the Federal Emergency Management Agency's National Risk Index dataset API or downloadable datasets but is not endorsed by FEMA. The Federal Government or FEMA cannot vouch for the data or analyses derived from these data after the data have been retrieved from the Agency's website(s).
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