Alert archive / California / Tornado Warnings in 1995
Tornado Warning 1, NWS Sacramento, CA
NWS Sacramento, CA issued this tornado warning at Apr 29, 1995, 6:22 PM PDT for El Dorado County, California. It was in force for 41 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 29, 1995, 6:22 PM PDT (01:22 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 29, 1995, 7:03 PM PDT
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Sacramento, CA
- Area
- Whole counties
County El Dorado County, CA
The nearest sounding before it
Oakland, CA (KOAK), launched 00:00Z, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 187 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 59 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 522 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 82 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 86 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 191 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSAC 300123 TORSAC CAC017-300230- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SACRAMENTO CA 622 PM PDT SAT APR 29 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SACRAMENTO HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 730 PM PDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...... IN NORTH CALIFORNIA ...WESTERN EL DORADO COUNTY AT 5:55 PM PDT PUBLIC REPORTED TORNADO TOUCHDOWNS NEAR LATROBE ROAD AND NEAR SHINGLE SPRINGS...BOTH IN EL DORADO COUNTY. THE REPORTS INDICATED SOME DAMAGE...INCLUDING AN UPROOTED TREE NEAR SHINGLE SPRINGS. SACRAMENTO DOPPLER RADAR INDICATES A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS MOVING THROUGH THE FOOTHILLS FROM SOUTHERN PLACER COUNTY NEAR FOREST HILL TO THE FAR NORTHEASTERN CORNER OF SAN JOAQUIN COUNTY EAST OF LODI. THESE STORMS WERE ALL MOVING TO THE NORHTEAST AT ABOUT 15 MPH. SMALL HAIL AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AS WELL AS THE POSSIBILITY FOR ADDITIONAL TORNADO TOUCHDOWNS ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS. THESE TH UNDERSTORMS SHOULD DISSIPATE AFTER SUNSET. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY REINFORCED BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH OR LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. SIMS/NOXON
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Apr 29, 5:37 PM PDT, 45 minutes before
CAZ006-009-300235- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SACRAMENTO CA 535 PM PST SAT APR 29 1995 ...COLD AIR FUNNEL CLOUD SIGHTED OVER STOCKTON... AT 520 PM PDT...THE SAN JOAQUIN COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT SPOTTED AND REPORTED A FUNNEL CLOUD NEAR THE INTERSECTION OF ALPINE AND MAIN STREETS IN STOCKTON. THE FUNNEL CLOUD DID NOT TOUCH THE GROUND...AND ITS MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTHEAST. SACRAMENTO DOPPLER RADAR INDICATES NO SEVERE WEATHER IN THE STOCKTON AREA. COLD AIR FUNNEL CLOUDS ARE NOT ASSOCIATED WITH SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. THEY GENERALLY DO NOT REACH THE GROUND AND ARE USUALLY SHORT LIVED. THEY HAVE...HOWEVER..ON OCCASION...TOUCHED THE GROUND AND CAUSED DAMAGE. BECAUSE OF THIS POSSIBILITY...YOU SHOULD SEEK SHELTER WHEN COLD AIR FUNNELS ARE OBSERVED. GO TO YOUR BASEMENT OR CENTRAL PART OF YOUR HOME FOR SHELTER. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER UPDATES ON THIS RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER SITUATION.V SIMS/NOXON
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.