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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 16, NWS Sacramento, CA
NWS Sacramento, CA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Dec 25, 2025, 2:15 PM PST for El Dorado County, Placer County, Sacramento County, California. It was in force for 45 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 25, 2025, 2:15 PM PST (22:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 25, 2025, 3:00 PM PST
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Sacramento, CA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties El Dorado County, CA, Placer County, CA, Sacramento County, CA
The radar
The Sacramento radar (KDAX), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:18 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Oakland, CA (KOAK), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 164 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
- 1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 596 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 70 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 268 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 293 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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, 5:00 PM PST | Flash Flood Warning | STO | Placer, Sacramento, Sutter | 55 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 | 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, 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.