NHC HURDAT2 · SPC Tornado Database
Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Isleton, 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 Isleton, California since records began in 1851. Since 1950, 21 tornadoes have touched down within 25 miles, 0 of them rated EF3 or stronger.
- Hurricanes
- 0
- Tropical storms
- 0
- Tornadoes
- 21
- 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 Isleton
The highest rating among the 21 tornadoes within 25 miles is F1 or EF1, reached 4 times; the most recent, on October 22, 2012, came within 21 miles. Of the 21, none had a path within 5 miles of the city centre, and 7 have come since 2000. April has had the most tornadoes, 9. The most recent tornado was on November 8, 2022. Isleton has more tornadoes within 25 miles than 67% of the 705 California cities on this site.
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Tornadoes within 25 miles of Isleton
By decade
- 2020s2
- 2010s3
- 2000s2
- 1990s8
- 1980s3
- 1970s2
- 1960s1
| Date | Rating | Distance | Path | Killed / injured |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 22, 2012 | EF1 | 21 mi | 1.02 mi | 0 / 0 |
| Jan 23, 2010 | EF1 | 19 mi | 1.64 mi | 0 / 0 |
| Apr 19, 1988 | F1 | 25 mi | 0.2 mi | 0 / 0 |
| May 31, 1967 | F1 | 21 mi | 0.1 mi | 0 / 0 |
| Nov 8, 2022 | EF0 | 19 mi | 0.8 mi | 0 / 0 |
| Apr 11, 2012 | EF0 | 25 mi | 0.25 mi | 0 / 0 |
| Feb 25, 2007 | EF0 | 20 mi | 1 mi | 0 / 0 |
| Jan 11, 2005 | F0 | 25 mi | 0.1 mi | 0 / 0 |
| May 12, 1998 | F0 | 23 mi | 0.2 mi | 0 / 0 |
| Feb 19, 1998 | F0 | 17 mi | 0.2 mi | 0 / 0 |
| Apr 1, 1996 | F0 | 18 mi | 0.1 mi | 0 / 0 |
| Apr 1, 1996 | F0 | 19 mi | 0.1 mi | 0 / 0 |
The strongest 12 of 21, by rating and then by deaths. Ratings before February 2007 are on the original Fujita scale.
Hail in Isleton
The Storm Prediction Center has no hail reports within 10 miles of Isleton since 1955.
Source: NOAA Storm Prediction Center severe weather reports, data through 2025.
Weather by month in Isleton
The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is Antioch Pumping Plt #3, CA, 15 miles southwest of Isleton at 60 feet. July is the warmest, with an average high of 91°F and low of 61°F; January is the coolest, at 56°F and 40°F. January is the wettest at 2.7 inches of precipitation on average and July and August the driest at 0.0 inches; the year adds up to 12.7 inches over 30 days with at least a tenth of an inch. Highs reach 90°F on about 64 days a year, almost all from May to October. Lows fall below freezing on about 7 nights a year. That 12.7 inches is more than at 77 of the 226 California stations used on this site (34%). Woodbridge, 16 miles east, has its own station (Lodi, CA): 18.2 inches a year, 5.5 more than here, and a July average high of 92°F against 91°F.
Water temperature at the NOAA tide station Port Chicago, CA, 25 miles west, averaged 71°F in August and 51°F in January over 2021–2025. No month averaged 80°F. Sea level at the Port Chicago tide gauge, 25 miles from Isleton, 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" | Water °F |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan | 56 | 40 | 2.7 | 6 | 51 |
| Feb | 61 | 44 | 2.4 | 6 | 52 |
| Mar | 67 | 47 | 2.0 | 5 | 55 |
| Apr | 72 | 50 | 0.9 | 2 | 60 |
| May | 79 | 54 | 0.4 | 1 | 64 |
| Jun | 86 | 59 | 0.1 | 0 | 68 |
| Jul | 91 | 61 | 0.0 | 0 | 70 |
| Aug | 90 | 60 | 0.0 | 0 | 71 |
| Sep | 87 | 59 | 0.1 | 0 | 70 |
| Oct | 78 | 54 | 0.4 | 1 | 65 |
| Nov | 65 | 46 | 1.2 | 3 | 59 |
| Dec | 56 | 40 | 2.5 | 6 | 52 |
| Year | 74 | 51 | 12.7 | 30 | 61 |
Averages for 1991–2020 at Antioch Pumping Plt #3, CA (60 ft), from NOAA NCEI U.S. Climate Normals; water temperature: average of hourly readings 2021–2025 at the NOAA tide station Port Chicago, CA, from NOAA Tides & Currents. Normals describe the station; the farther a place is from it, and the bigger the difference in height, the more its weather can differ.
Flood insurance claims, disaster declarations and FEMA risk ratings
Flood insurance policyholders in Isleton's ZIP code 95641 have filed 102 claims with the National Flood Insurance Program since 1980, and were paid $1.7 million for buildings and contents, in the dollars of each year. The most came from Flooding in 1997: 75 claims (74% of all) and $1.6 million. 80% 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, 319 have fewer than Isleton.
| Event | Claims | Paid |
|---|---|---|
| Flooding1997 | 75 | $1.6 million |
Sacramento County, which includes Isleton, 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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