NHC HURDAT2 · SPC Tornado Database
Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit West Sacramento, 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 West Sacramento, California since records began in 1851. Since 1950, 24 tornadoes have touched down within 25 miles, 0 of them rated EF3 or stronger.
- Hurricanes
- 0
- Tropical storms
- 0
- Tornadoes
- 24
- 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 West Sacramento
The strongest of the 24 tornadoes within 25 miles was an F2 on February 7, 1978; its path came within 10 miles. Of the 24, 4 had paths within 5 miles of the city centre, and 16 have come since 2000. February has had the most tornadoes, 7. The most recent tornado was on November 8, 2022. West Sacramento has more tornadoes within 25 miles than 73% of the 705 California cities on this site. Hail has been reported within 10 miles 3 times since 2005, with stones up to 0.75 inches (penny size). Of the 705 California cities, 44% have more hail reports within 10 miles than West Sacramento.
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Tornadoes within 25 miles of West Sacramento
By decade
- 2020s1
- 2010s9
- 2000s6
- 1990s2
- 1980s4
- 1970s2
| Date | Rating | Distance | Path | Killed / injured |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 7, 1978 | F2 | 10 mi | 1.9 mi | 0 / 0 |
| Dec 24, 2015 | EF1 | 25 mi | 6.21 mi | 0 / 0 |
| Oct 22, 2012 | EF1 | 16 mi | 1.02 mi | 0 / 0 |
| Apr 19, 1988 | F1 | 21 mi | 1 mi | 0 / 0 |
| Mar 22, 1983 | F1 | 14 mi | 2 mi | 0 / 0 |
| Nov 8, 2022 | EF0 | 21 mi | 0.8 mi | 0 / 0 |
| Sep 28, 2019 | EF0 | 11 mi | 1.7 mi | 0 / 0 |
| Jan 11, 2017 | EF0 | 5 mi | 0.42 mi | 0 / 0 |
| Jan 9, 2017 | EF0 | 22 mi | 0.18 mi | 0 / 0 |
| Mar 26, 2014 | EF0 | 15 mi | 4.02 mi | 0 / 0 |
| Mar 26, 2014 | EF0 | 16 mi | 0.63 mi | 0 / 0 |
| Feb 28, 2014 | EF0 | 10 mi | 0.74 mi | 0 / 0 |
The strongest 12 of 24, by rating and then by deaths. Ratings before February 2007 are on the original Fujita scale.
Hail in West Sacramento
The Storm Prediction Center has 3 hail reports within 10 miles of West Sacramento since 2005. None of them reached 1 inch. The largest size, 0.75 inches (penny size), was reported on 2 days, most recently May 9, 2005. The most recent report is from February 26, 2018.
Source: NOAA Storm Prediction Center severe weather reports, data through 2025.
Weather by month in West Sacramento
The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is Sacramento Executive Airport, CA, 5 miles southeast of West Sacramento at 15 feet. July is the warmest, with an average high of 93°F and low of 59°F; December is the coolest, at 56°F and 39°F. January is the wettest at 3.7 inches of precipitation on average and July and August the driest at 0.0 inches; the year adds up to 18.3 inches over 37 days with at least a tenth of an inch. Highs reach 90°F on about 76 days a year, almost all from May to October. Lows fall below freezing on about 15 nights a year. That 18.3 inches is more than at 132 of the 226 California stations used on this site (58%). Sacramento, 6 miles east, has its own station (Sacramento 5 ESE, CA): 19.2 inches a year, 0.9 more than here, and a July average high of 94°F against 93°F.
Sea level at the Port Chicago tide gauge, 45 miles from West Sacramento, 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 | 56 | 39 | 3.7 | 7 |
| Feb | 61 | 42 | 3.5 | 7 |
| Mar | 66 | 45 | 2.7 | 6 |
| Apr | 72 | 47 | 1.3 | 3 |
| May | 80 | 52 | 0.8 | 2 |
| Jun | 88 | 57 | 0.2 | 1 |
| Jul | 93 | 59 | 0.0 | 0 |
| Aug | 92 | 59 | 0.0 | 0 |
| Sep | 89 | 57 | 0.1 | 0 |
| Oct | 79 | 50 | 0.9 | 2 |
| Nov | 65 | 43 | 1.7 | 4 |
| Dec | 56 | 39 | 3.4 | 6 |
| Year | 75 | 49 | 18.3 | 37 |
Averages for 1991–2020 at Sacramento Executive Airport, CA (15 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 West Sacramento
Since 1996, the National Weather Service has logged 94 flood, rain, thunderstorm wind and lightning events that began within 10 miles of West Sacramento: 83 floods, 8 heavy rain events and 3 thunderstorm wind reports. None is recorded as killing or injuring anyone; the NWS estimated $134.1 million in property and crop damage. The strongest thunderstorm gust on record here was 54 mph, on January 10, 2023.
January 1, 2023: flood 4 miles from the centre of West Sacramento — $134.0 million damage.
NWS: “Sacramento County completed a preliminary estimate of a total of $133 million from public storm damage from January 1 through January 17, and a total of almost $700,000 in private property damage. There was extensive levee damage and flooding along the Cosumnes River from Rancho Murieta to Wilton.”
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 West Sacramento's 2 ZIP codes have filed 63 claims with the National Flood Insurance Program since 1986, and were paid $66,000 for buildings and contents, in the dollars of each year. The most came from Flooding in 1995: 36 claims (57% of all) and $37,000. 60% 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, 267 have fewer than West Sacramento.
| Event | Claims | Paid |
|---|---|---|
| Flooding1995 | 36 | $37,000 |
Yolo County, which includes West Sacramento, has been named in 22 federal disaster or emergency declarations since 1964, 16 of them major disasters (by incident: 7 severe storms, 6 floods, 3 fires, 2 biological emergencies). The latest major disaster declaration was Severe Winter Storms, Flooding, Landslides, and Mudslides, on January 14, 2023. FEMA's National Risk Index gives Yolo County a Relatively Moderate rating for natural hazard risk overall; by hazard: Relatively Moderate for inland flooding; Relatively Low for lightning and heat waves; Very Low for tornadoes, hail and strong wind. It models the county's expected loss from all 18 hazards it covers at $116.2 million a year, the 36th highest of 58 California counties; of the hazards above, the largest share, $42.2 million (36%), 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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