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The storms reached the state the following day as another trough formed to the north near British Columbia. The initial low-pressure area moved onshore on January 4, and a cold front developed in northern California, which stalled as it moved through the San Francisco Bay area due to intensifying jet-stream winds being pushed along the Santa ...
The NWS Bay Area said the warning was over for San Francisco at 6:07 a.m. And let the tornado warning expire at 6:15 a.m. The warning led to a flurry of social media posts from residents who were ...
The storms caused record-breaking rainfall totals to be observed in multiple areas, as well as the declaration of states of emergency in multiple counties in Southern California. [3] [4] Wind gusts of hurricane force were observed in San Francisco, along with wind gusts reaching over 100 miles per hour (160 km/h) in the Sierra Nevada.
The storm claimed two victims in Oregon, killed by falling trees, and left 150,000 households without power across the San Francisco Bay Area. [3] [5] [40] Severe power outages in San Francisco caused Montgomery Street Station (one of the busiest BART stations in the city) to close [41] and produced a major downtime at the Internet Archive. [42]
Here's why this storm ranked number one for the Bay Area.
Napa, north of San Francisco, recorded its worst flood to this time [29] while nearby Calistoga recorded 29 inches (740 mm) of rain in 10 days, creating a once-in-a-thousand-year rainfall event. [27] Records for 24-hour rain events were reported in the Central Valley and in the Sierra. Thousand-year rainfalls were recorded in the Sierras. [1]
It was only late last month that San Diego was hit with torrential downpours and flooding from a separate storm, wrecking dozens of homes and sweeping vehicles into heaped piles. It was the city ...
March 20, 2005 – An F1 tornado struck South San Francisco in San Mateo County, causing damage to 60 buildings along its three-mile (4.8 km) path. [307] March 29, 2005 – A brief F0 tornado was on the ground for about a minute in Yuba City in Sutter County. [308] April 8, 2005 – There was an outbreak of five F0 tornadoes across the state.