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Flash Flood Warning 5, NWS Sacramento, CA

December 24, 2025Placer County, Sacramento County, Sutter County, California

NWS Sacramento, CA issued this flash flood warning at Dec 24, 2025, 5:00 PM PST for Placer County, Sacramento County, Sutter County, California. It was in force for 55 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Dec 24, 2025, 5:00 PM PST (01:00 UTC)
Expired: Dec 24, 2025, 5:55 PM PST
In force: 55 min
Issued by: NWS Sacramento, CA
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

Counties Placer County, CA, Sacramento County, CA, Sutter County, CA

The radar

The Sacramento radar (KDAX), 53 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:59 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Oakland, CA (KOAK), launched 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 149 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 145 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -3 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1058 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 42 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 112 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.3

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this flash flood warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Sacramento, CA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at Dec 24, 1:30 PM PST, 3 hours 30 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Dec 24, 1:30 PM PST, 3 hours 30 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Dec 24, 12:03 PM PST, 4 hours 57 minutes before

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Local storm report, Dec 24, 1:21 PM PST, 3 hours 39 minutes before

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Local storm report, Dec 24, 1:36 PM PST, 3 hours 24 minutes before

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Local storm report, Dec 24, 1:43 PM PST, 3 hours 17 minutes before

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Local storm report, Dec 24, 1:52 PM PST, 3 hours 8 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Dec 24, 3:55 PM PST, 1 hour 5 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Sacramento, CA issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Dec 24, 4:03 PM PST	Special Weather Statement	STO	Sacramento	42 min
Dec 24, 4:26 PM PST	Areal Flood Advisory	STO	Sacramento, Yolo	9 min
Dec 24, 4:33 PM PST	Special Weather Statement	STO	Yolo	42 min
Dec 24, 4:35 PM PST	Flash Flood Warning	STO	Sacramento, Yolo	51 min
Dec 24, 4:45 PM PST	Special Weather Statement	STO	Sutter	30 min
Dec 24, 5:18 PM PST	Special Weather Statement	STO	Yuba	42 min
Dec 24, 5:26 PM PST	Areal Flood Advisory	STO	Sacramento, Yolo	2 hr
Dec 24, 5:55 PM PST	Areal Flood Advisory	STO	Placer, Sacramento, Sutter	95 min
Dec 24, 6:00 PM PST	Special Weather Statement	STO	Yuba	45 min
Dec 24, 6:10 PM PST	Special Weather Statement	STO	Sutter	50 min
Dec 24, 6:38 PM PST	Special Weather Statement	STO	Colusa	52 min
Dec 24, 7:14 PM PST	Special Weather Statement	STO	Glenn	46 min
Dec 24, 7:59 PM PST	Special Weather Statement	STO	Tehama	46 min
Dec 24, 9:43 PM PST	Areal Flood Advisory	STO	Butte, Colusa, Glenn, Shasta, Tehama, Yuba	44 hr
Dec 24, 9:45 PM PST	Areal Flood Advisory	STO	Butte, Colusa, Glenn, Sacramento, Solano, Sutter and 1 more	44 hr
Dec 24, 10:35 PM PST	Special Weather Statement	STO	Butte	25 min
Dec 25, 4:16 AM PST	Areal Flood Advisory	STO	Amador, Butte, Calaveras, El Dorado, Nevada, Placer and 9 more	38 hr
Dec 25, 5:08 AM PST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	STO	Butte, Plumas, Sierra, Tehama, Yuba	37 min
Dec 25, 10:01 AM PST	Special Weather Statement	STO	Sacramento	29 min
Dec 25, 10:13 AM PST	Special Weather Statement	STO	Tehama	32 min
Dec 25, 10:38 AM PST	Special Weather Statement	STO	Placer	22 min
Dec 25, 11:45 AM PST	Wind Advisory	STO		30 hr
Dec 25, 1:21 PM PST	Special Weather Statement	STO	Sutter	24 min
Dec 25, 1:47 PM PST	Special Weather Statement	STO	Sacramento	28 min
Dec 25, 2:15 PM PST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	STO	El Dorado, Placer, Sacramento	45 min
Dec 25, 3:03 PM PST	Special Weather Statement	STO	Placer	27 min
Dec 25, 3:49 PM PST	Special Weather Statement	STO	Sacramento	26 min

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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.