NHC HURDAT2 · SPC Tornado Database
Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Galt, 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 Galt, California since records began in 1851. Since 1950, 23 tornadoes have touched down within 25 miles, 0 of them rated EF3 or stronger.
- Hurricanes
- 0
- Tropical storms
- 0
- Tornadoes
- 23
- 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 Galt
The highest rating among the 23 tornadoes within 25 miles is F1 or EF1, reached 3 times; the most recent, on October 22, 2012, came within 9 miles. Of the 23, one had a path within 5 miles of the city centre, and 10 have come since 2000. April has had the most tornadoes, 8. The most recent tornado was on January 14, 2023. Galt has more tornadoes within 25 miles than 71% of the 705 California cities on this site. Hail has been reported within 10 miles once, in 1959, with stones of 0.75 inches (penny size). Of the 705 California cities, 72% have more hail reports within 10 miles than Galt.
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Tornadoes within 25 miles of Galt
By decade
- 2020s4
- 2010s2
- 2000s4
- 1990s6
- 1980s5
- 1970s1
- 1960s1
| Date | Rating | Distance | Path | Killed / injured |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 22, 2012 | EF1 | 9 mi | 1.02 mi | 0 / 0 |
| Apr 19, 1988 | F1 | 10 mi | 0.2 mi | 0 / 0 |
| May 31, 1967 | F1 | 21 mi | 0.1 mi | 0 / 0 |
| Jan 14, 2023 | EF0 | 9 mi | 0.3 mi | 0 / 0 |
| Nov 8, 2022 | EF0 | 5 mi | 0.8 mi | 0 / 0 |
| May 18, 2020 | EF0 | 17 mi | 0.1 mi | 0 / 0 |
| Feb 25, 2011 | EF0 | 21 mi | 0.35 mi | 0 / 0 |
| Feb 25, 2007 | EF0 | 9 mi | 1 mi | 0 / 0 |
| Apr 8, 2005 | F0 | 16 mi | 0.1 mi | 0 / 0 |
| Feb 21, 2005 | F0 | 23 mi | 0.1 mi | 0 / 0 |
| Feb 21, 2005 | F0 | 25 mi | 0.1 mi | 0 / 0 |
| Apr 1, 1996 | F0 | 10 mi | 0.1 mi | 0 / 0 |
The strongest 12 of 23, by rating and then by deaths. Ratings before February 2007 are on the original Fujita scale.
Hail in Galt
The Storm Prediction Center has one hail report within 10 miles of Galt, from April 25, 1959: 0.75 inches (penny size).
Source: NOAA Storm Prediction Center severe weather reports, data through 2025.
Weather by month in Galt
The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is Lodi, CA, 11 miles south of Galt at 40 feet. July is the warmest, with an average high of 92°F and low of 59°F; December is the coolest, at 57°F and 39°F. December is the wettest at 3.6 inches of precipitation on average and July and August the driest at 0.0 inches; the year adds up to 18.2 inches over 41 days with at least a tenth of an inch. Highs reach 90°F on about 78 days a year, almost all from April to October. Lows fall below freezing on about 20 nights a year. That 18.2 inches is more than at 131 of the 226 California stations used on this site (58%). Wilton, 9 miles north, has its own station (Sacramento 5 ESE, CA): 19.2 inches a year, 1.0 more than here, and a July average high of 94°F against 92°F.
Sea level at the Port Chicago tide gauge, 43 miles from Galt, has risen 0.77 ± 0.23 inches per decade from 1976 to 2025, NOAA's linear trend; at that pace it is 7.7 inches in a hundred years. That is faster than at 36 of the 144 U.S. gauges with a NOAA trend.
| Month | High °F | Low °F | Precip. in | Days ≥ 0.1" |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan | 57 | 40 | 3.5 | 8 |
| Feb | 63 | 42 | 3.4 | 8 |
| Mar | 69 | 45 | 2.5 | 5 |
| Apr | 74 | 47 | 1.5 | 4 |
| May | 81 | 52 | 0.7 | 2 |
| Jun | 88 | 57 | 0.2 | 1 |
| Jul | 92 | 59 | 0.0 | 0 |
| Aug | 92 | 58 | 0.0 | 0 |
| Sep | 89 | 56 | 0.1 | 0 |
| Oct | 79 | 50 | 0.9 | 2 |
| Nov | 65 | 43 | 1.8 | 4 |
| Dec | 57 | 39 | 3.6 | 7 |
| Year | 75 | 49 | 18.2 | 41 |
Averages for 1991–2020 at Lodi, CA (40 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 Galt
Since 1996, the National Weather Service has logged 21 flood, rain, thunderstorm wind and lightning events that began within 10 miles of Galt: 17 floods, 3 flash floods and 1 heavy rain event. They killed 3 people and injured 0, and the NWS estimated $200,000 in property and crop damage.
January 1, 2023: flash flood 7 miles from the centre of Galt — 1 killed.
January 1, 2023: flash flood 4 miles from the centre of Galt — 1 killed.
NWS: “Sacramento County Sheriff confirmed a drowning on January 4 associated with the December 31 - January 1 flash flood event. A female body was found inside a vehicle.”
December 24, 2025: flood 10 miles from the centre of Galt — 1 killed.
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 Galt's ZIP code 95632 have filed 35 claims with the National Flood Insurance Program since 1979, and were paid $325,000 for buildings and contents, in the dollars of each year. The year with the most claims was 2017, with 10. 49% 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, 177 have fewer than Galt.
Sacramento County, which includes Galt, 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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