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NHC HURDAT2 · SPC Tornado Database

Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Thousand Oaks, CA

Every tropical system within 75 miles since 1851 and every tornado within 25 miles since 1950.

No tropical storm or hurricane has passed within 75 miles of Thousand Oaks, California since records began in 1851. Since 1950, 12 tornadoes have touched down within 25 miles, 0 of them rated EF3 or stronger.

Hurricanes
0

within 75 mi, since 1851

Tropical storms
0

below hurricane strength

Tornadoes
12

within 25 mi, since 1950

EF3 or stronger
0

no recorded deaths

Tornadoes within 25 miles of Thousand Oaks

By decade

  • 2010s2
  • 2000s2
  • 1990s3
  • 1980s3
  • 1960s1
  • 1950s1
Strongest tornadoes near Thousand Oaks, California
DateRatingDistancePathKilled / injured
Nov 9, 1982F224 mi1 mi0 / 0
Nov 9, 1982F117 mi0.2 mi0 / 0
Dec 25, 2019EF022 mi0.84 mi0 / 0
Jan 21, 2010EF018 mi1.51 mi0 / 0
Jan 24, 2008EF015 mi0.1 mi0 / 0
Jan 10, 2005F017 mi0.1 mi0 / 0
Apr 1, 1999F016 mi0.1 mi0 / 0
May 13, 1998F012 mi0.1 mi0 / 0
Dec 7, 1992F05 mi0.1 mi0 / 0
Nov 9, 1982F015 mi0.1 mi0 / 0
Apr 18, 1967F025 mi0.3 mi0 / 0
Dec 20, 1952F024 mi0.1 mi0 / 0

The strongest 12 of 12, by rating and then by deaths. Ratings before February 2007 are on the original Fujita scale.

How to read this page

A storm is listed when the centre of its track passed within 75 miles of Thousand Oaks while it was at least a tropical storm, which is the reach of damaging wind and rain for a typical hurricane. Being on the list does not mean the city took a direct hit; the "closest" column says how near the centre came. Tornadoes are counted when any part of the path came within 25 miles.

Tornado records before the 1990s are thinner, because weak tornadoes in open country often went unreported before Doppler radar and mobile phones. A rise in the decade counts is mostly better reporting, not a change in the weather.

Tracks come from the National Hurricane Center's HURDAT2 database, tornadoes from the Storm Prediction Center's database. Both are the official federal records and both are revised as old storms are re-analysed.

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