Between 1700 PST and 1900 PST thunderstorms accompanied by gusty wind downed trees and powerlines taking out power to 3500 utility customers in Fresno, Clovis, Selma, and Auberry in Fresno County. Wind speed estimated.
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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.
The episode as NWS HNX wrote it up.
Between 1700 PST and 1900 PST thunderstorms accompanied by gusty wind downed trees and powerlines taking out power to 3500 utility customers in Fresno, Clovis, Selma, and Auberry in Fresno County. Wind speed estimated.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 lightning, 1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Lightning strike on a traffic signal at Cedar/Shaw in North Fresno.
Thunderstorm wind downed a tree at Van Ness and Garland in Fresno.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in California in 1998Every state in 1998This day in weather historyWarnings in California, February 1998
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: 5639271, 5639272.