NHC HURDAT2 · SPC Tornado Database
Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Upland, 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 Upland, 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 Upland
The highest rating among the 23 tornadoes within 25 miles is F1, reached 5 times; the most recent, on January 14, 1993, came within 23 miles. Of the 23, none had a path within 5 miles of the city centre, and 8 have come since 2000. March has had the most tornadoes, 6. The most recent tornado was on March 13, 2025. Upland has more tornadoes within 25 miles than 71% of the 705 California cities on this site.
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Tornadoes within 25 miles of Upland
By decade
- 2020s2
- 2000s6
- 1990s7
- 1980s3
- 1970s3
- 1960s1
- 1950s1
| Date | Rating | Distance | Path | Killed / injured |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 14, 1993 | F1 | 23 mi | 1 mi | 0 / 0 |
| Dec 7, 1992 | F1 | 25 mi | 0.1 mi | 0 / 0 |
| Mar 16, 1986 | F1 | 25 mi | 1.2 mi | 0 / 0 |
| Mar 16, 1977 | F1 | 19 mi | 10.9 mi | 0 / 4 |
| Nov 25, 1965 | F1 | 6 mi | 2 mi | 0 / 0 |
| Mar 13, 2025 | EF0 | 25 mi | 0.97 mi | 0 / 0 |
| Feb 23, 2023 | EF0 | 23 mi | 0.07 mi | 0 / 0 |
| Mar 4, 2005 | F0 | 13 mi | 0.5 mi | 0 / 0 |
| Dec 29, 2004 | F0 | 24 mi | 0.5 mi | 0 / 0 |
| Aug 14, 2004 | F0 | 22 mi | 1 mi | 0 / 0 |
| Dec 21, 2001 | F0 | 14 mi | 0.1 mi | 0 / 0 |
| Feb 24, 2001 | F0 | 25 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 Upland
The Storm Prediction Center has no hail reports within 10 miles of Upland since 1955.
Source: NOAA Storm Prediction Center severe weather reports, data through 2025.
Weather by month in Upland
The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is Ontario International Airport, CA, 5 miles southeast of Upland at 949 feet. August is the warmest, with an average high of 95°F and low of 65°F; December is the coolest, at 67°F and 44°F. February is the wettest at 3.1 inches of precipitation on average and June and August the driest at 0.0 inches; the year adds up to 11.7 inches over 20 days with at least a tenth of an inch. Highs reach 90°F on about 93 days a year, almost all from April to November. Lows fall below freezing on about 2 nights a year. That 11.7 inches is more than at 57 of the 226 California stations used on this site (25%). Claremont, 3 miles west, has its own station (Pomona/Fairplex, CA): 14.5 inches a year, 2.8 more than here, and an August average high of 92°F against 95°F.
| Month | High °F | Low °F | Precip. in | Days ≥ 0.1" |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan | 68 | 45 | 2.6 | 3 |
| Feb | 68 | 46 | 3.1 | 5 |
| Mar | 72 | 49 | 1.6 | 3 |
| Apr | 76 | 51 | 0.8 | 2 |
| May | 80 | 56 | 0.3 | 1 |
| Jun | 86 | 60 | 0.0 | 0 |
| Jul | 94 | 65 | 0.1 | 0 |
| Aug | 95 | 65 | 0.0 | 0 |
| Sep | 91 | 64 | 0.1 | 0 |
| Oct | 83 | 57 | 0.4 | 1 |
| Nov | 75 | 49 | 0.8 | 2 |
| Dec | 67 | 44 | 1.9 | 3 |
| Year | 79 | 54 | 11.7 | 20 |
Averages for 1991–2020 at Ontario International Airport, CA (949 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 Upland
Since 1996, the National Weather Service has logged 54 flood, rain, thunderstorm wind and lightning events that began within 10 miles of Upland: 19 flash floods, 18 heavy rain events, 11 floods and 6 thunderstorm wind reports. They killed 3 people and injured 0, and the NWS estimated $97.3 million in property and crop damage. The strongest thunderstorm gust on record here was 81 mph, on September 2, 1998. May has had the most flash floods, 5 of 19. Of the 550 California cities on this site with a flash flood on record, 434 have had fewer than Upland.
November 8, 2022: flash flood 3 miles from the centre of Upland — 3 killed.
December 19, 2010: flood 8 miles from the centre of Upland — $97.0 million damage.
NWS: “San Bernardino County was the hardest hit county in California in terms of amount of damage due to the heavy rain at the end of December. County officials put the total damage amount (including public and private property of all types and labor to repair damage) at approximately $97 million.”
January 8, 2005: flash flood 8 miles from the centre of Upland — $100,000 damage.
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 Upland's 2 ZIP codes have filed 21 claims with the National Flood Insurance Program since 1980, and were paid $69,000 for buildings and contents, in the dollars of each year. 29% 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, 95 have fewer than Upland.
San Bernardino County, which includes Upland, has been named in 61 federal disaster or emergency declarations since 1965, 30 of them major disasters (by incident: 33 fires, 13 floods, 7 severe storms, 2 biological emergencies). 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 San Bernardino County a Very High rating for natural hazard risk overall; by hazard: Very High for inland flooding; Relatively High for strong wind, lightning and heat waves; Relatively Moderate for tornadoes and hail. It models the county's expected loss from all 18 hazards it covers at $2.08 billion a year, the 3rd highest of 58 California counties; of the hazards above, the largest share, $959.6 million (46%), 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).
What counts as a pass, the distances and the sources: how this storm history is built.