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NHC HURDAT2 · SPC Tornado Database

Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Yuba City, 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 Yuba City, California since records began in 1851. Since 1950, 16 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
16

within 25 mi, since 1950

EF3 or stronger
0

no recorded deaths

Tornadoes within 25 miles of Yuba City

By decade

  • 2010s9
  • 2000s3
  • 1990s3
  • 1970s1
Strongest tornadoes near Yuba City, California
DateRatingDistancePathKilled / injured
Oct 22, 2012EF12 mi2 mi0 / 0
Oct 22, 2012EF17 mi0.29 mi0 / 0
Jan 8, 2005F124 mi0.1 mi0 / 0
Jan 7, 1993F122 mi0.1 mi0 / 0
Dec 17, 1992F120 mi5 mi0 / 0
Jun 28, 1970F118 mi2.3 mi0 / 0
Feb 2, 2019EF04 mi0.3 mi0 / 0
Feb 2, 2019EF025 mi0.1 mi0 / 0
Mar 21, 2018EF09 mi1 mi0 / 0
Jan 9, 2017EF025 mi0.18 mi0 / 0
Mar 26, 2014EF022 mi0.63 mi0 / 0
Oct 22, 2012EF013 mi0.38 mi0 / 0

The strongest 12 of 16, 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 Yuba City 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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