NHC HURDAT2 · SPC Tornado Database
Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Monterey Park, 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 Monterey Park, California since records began in 1851. Since 1950, 48 tornadoes have touched down within 25 miles, 0 of them rated EF3 or stronger.
- Hurricanes
- 0
- Tropical storms
- 0
- Tornadoes
- 48
- 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 Monterey Park
The highest rating among the 48 tornadoes within 25 miles is F2, reached 5 times; the most recent, on March 1, 1983, came within 13 miles. Of the 48, 5 had paths within 5 miles of the city centre, and 12 have come since 2000. January and March have had the most tornadoes, 9 each. The most recent tornado was on March 13, 2025. Monterey Park has more tornadoes within 25 miles than 92% of the 705 California cities on this site. Hail has been reported within 10 miles 7 times since 1994, with stones up to 1.25 inches (half dollar size). Monterey Park has more hail reports within 10 miles than 76% of the 705 California cities.
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Tornadoes within 25 miles of Monterey Park
By decade
- 2020s5
- 2010s2
- 2000s5
- 1990s11
- 1980s12
- 1970s5
- 1960s6
- 1950s2
| Date | Rating | Distance | Path | Killed / injured |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 1, 1983 | F2 | 13 mi | 3.5 mi | 0 / 30 |
| Nov 9, 1982 | F2 | 13 mi | 10 mi | 0 / 0 |
| Nov 9, 1982 | F2 | 20 mi | 1 mi | 0 / 0 |
| Nov 7, 1966 | F2 | 11 mi | 10.3 mi | 0 / 10 |
| Nov 7, 1966 | F2 | 14 mi | 0.1 mi | 0 / 0 |
| Mar 22, 2023 | EF1 | 4 mi | 0.47 mi | 0 / 1 |
| Jan 19, 2010 | EF1 | 23 mi | 4.62 mi | 0 / 0 |
| Jan 9, 1998 | F1 | 19 mi | 1.5 mi | 0 / 1 |
| Jan 14, 1993 | F1 | 16 mi | 1 mi | 0 / 0 |
| Dec 7, 1992 | F1 | 20 mi | 0.1 mi | 0 / 0 |
| Dec 7, 1992 | F1 | 22 mi | 0.1 mi | 0 / 0 |
| Mar 20, 1992 | F1 | 4 mi | 0.2 mi | 0 / 0 |
The strongest 12 of 48, by rating and then by deaths. Ratings before February 2007 are on the original Fujita scale.
Hail in Monterey Park
The Storm Prediction Center has 7 hail reports within 10 miles of Monterey Park since 1994, made on 5 separate days. Of these, 3 were 1 inch across or larger, and none reached 2 inches. The largest, 1.25 inches (half dollar size), fell on October 17, 2005. The most recent report is from March 24, 2024.
Source: NOAA Storm Prediction Center severe weather reports, data through 2025.
Weather by month in Monterey Park
The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is San Gabriel Fire Dept, CA, 3 miles northeast of Monterey Park at 363 feet. August is the warmest, with an average high of 88°F and low of 66°F; December is the coolest, at 68°F and 45°F. February is the wettest at 4.2 inches of precipitation on average and July and August the driest at 0.0 inches; the year adds up to 15.5 inches over 22 days with at least a tenth of an inch. Highs reach 90°F on about 64 days a year, almost all from March to November. Lows fall below freezing on about 1 nights a year. That 15.5 inches is more than at 107 of the 226 California stations used on this site (47%). Commerce, 4 miles south, has its own station (Los Angeles Dwtn Usc Campus, CA): 14.2 inches a year, 1.3 less than here, and an August average high of 84°F against 88°F.
Water temperature at the NOAA tide station Santa Monica, CA, 21 miles west, averaged 69°F in August and 58°F in January and March over 2021–2025. No month averaged 80°F. Sea level at the Santa Monica tide gauge, 21 miles from Monterey Park, has risen 0.60 ± 0.06 inches per decade from 1933 to 2025, NOAA's linear trend; at that pace it is 6.0 inches in a hundred years. That is faster than at 28 of the 144 U.S. gauges with a NOAA trend.
| Month | High °F | Low °F | Precip. in | Days ≥ 0.1" | Water °F |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan | 69 | 46 | 3.6 | 5 | 58 |
| Feb | 68 | 47 | 4.2 | 5 | 58 |
| Mar | 71 | 51 | 2.5 | 3 | 58 |
| Apr | 74 | 53 | 0.6 | 1 | 59 |
| May | 76 | 58 | 0.5 | 1 | 62 |
| Jun | 81 | 62 | 0.1 | 0 | 66 |
| Jul | 86 | 65 | 0.0 | 0 | 68 |
| Aug | 88 | 66 | 0.0 | 0 | 69 |
| Sep | 87 | 64 | 0.1 | 0 | 69 |
| Oct | 81 | 57 | 0.6 | 1 | 65 |
| Nov | 74 | 51 | 0.9 | 2 | 62 |
| Dec | 68 | 45 | 2.4 | 3 | 60 |
| Year | 77 | 55 | 15.5 | 22 | 63 |
Averages for 1991–2020 at San Gabriel Fire Dept, CA (363 ft), from NOAA NCEI U.S. Climate Normals; water temperature: average of hourly readings 2021–2025 at the NOAA tide station Santa Monica, 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.
Floods, thunderstorm wind and lightning near Monterey Park
Since 1996, the National Weather Service has logged 25 flood, rain, thunderstorm wind and lightning events that began within 10 miles of Monterey Park: 14 flash floods, 7 thunderstorm wind reports, 3 floods and 1 lightning strike. They killed 1 person and injured 2. The strongest thunderstorm gust on record here was 81 mph, on April 18, 2000. February has had the most flash floods, 8 of 14. Of the 550 California cities on this site with a flash flood on record, 363 have had fewer than Monterey Park.
June 22, 2022: lightning strike 5 miles from the centre of Monterey Park — 1 killed.
February 23, 2000: thunderstorm wind 10 miles from the centre of Monterey Park — 1 injured.
March 1, 2023: thunderstorm wind 6 miles from the centre of Monterey Park — 1 injured.
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 Monterey Park's 2 ZIP codes have filed 27 claims with the National Flood Insurance Program since 1978, and were paid $28,000 for buildings and contents, in the dollars of each year. The most came from Flooding in 1983: 15 claims (56% of all) and $15,000. 63% 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, 134 have fewer than Monterey Park.
| Event | Claims | Paid |
|---|---|---|
| Flooding1983 | 15 | $15,000 |
Los Angeles County, which includes Monterey Park, has been named in 88 federal disaster or emergency declarations since 1969, 35 of them major disasters (by incident: 61 fires, 10 floods, 8 severe storms, 3 earthquakes). The latest major disaster declaration was Wildfires and Straight-Line Winds, on January 8, 2025. FEMA's National Risk Index gives Los Angeles County a Very High rating for natural hazard risk overall; by hazard: Very High for inland flooding and lightning; Relatively High for tornadoes, coastal flooding and heat waves; Relatively Moderate for hail and strong wind. It models the county's expected loss from all 18 hazards it covers at $7.60 billion a year, the highest of 58 California counties; of the hazards above, the largest share, $2.81 billion (37%), 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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