Tornado, San Joaquin
- When
- April 1, 3:00 PM PST to 3:10 PM PST
- Where
- San Joaquin County, 1 mi E of Lodi
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.1 mi
- Path width
- 100 yd
- Coordinates
- 38.130, -121.250
Tornado in California, April 1, 1996
This tornado briefly touched down in an agricultural area near the city of Lodi. It snapped a utility pole and brought down a 6-foot diameter oak tree, which crashed into the roof of a two story home.
Where it happened
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- Heat and drought
- Cold
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- Marine and coastal
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The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 1
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
What happened
The episode as NWS STO wrote it up.
This tornado briefly touched down in an agricultural area near the city of Lodi. It snapped a utility pole and brought down a 6-foot diameter oak tree, which crashed into the roof of a two story home.
The radar
The Sacramento radar (KDAX), 56 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 22:57 UTC.
Event by event
1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Tornado
- A violently rotating column of air in contact with the ground and extending from a thunderstorm, filed with its path, width and Fujita or Enhanced Fujita rating from the damage survey.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Drought in Texas, April 1 to 30, 1996
- Damaging Wind in California, April 1, 1996
- Damaging Wind in California, April 1, 1996
- Drought in Texas, April 1 to 30, 1996
- Damaging Wind in California, April 1, 1996
- Drought in Texas, April 1 to 30, 1996
- Drought in Texas, April 1 to 30, 1996
- Drought in New Mexico, April 1 to 30, 1996
- Damaging Wind in California, April 1, 1996
- Damaging Wind in California, April 1, 1996
- Tornado in California, April 1, 1996
- Winter Weather in North Carolina, April 1 to 2, 1996
More
Every storm in California in 1996Every state in 1996This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for California, 1996Warnings in California, April 1996
Sources
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5576193.