Heavy Rain, San Joaquin
- When
- May 1, 12:01 AM PST to May 31, 11:59 PM PST
- Where
- San Joaquin County, Countywide
- Crop damage
- $200 million
- Reported by
- NEWSPAPER
- Coordinates
- 37.935, -121.271 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Heavy Rain in California, May 1 to 31, 1998
Continued abnormally wet weather during the month of May caused huge crop and livestock losses in not only San Joaquin County, but many counties in the Central Valley. However, only San Joaquin County had preliminary estimates available.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it; 1 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.
- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- $200 million
- 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.
Continued abnormally wet weather during the month of May caused huge crop and livestock losses in not only San Joaquin County, but many counties in the Central Valley. However, only San Joaquin County had preliminary estimates available. Crop losses due to record or near record rain during the period February 1998 to May 1998 in interior northern California may total in the billions.
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
1 heavy rain. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Heavy Rain
- Rainfall totals unusual for the place and season that did not produce a flood.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- High Wind in Alabama, May 1, 1998
- Heavy Rain in California, May 1 to 15, 1998
- Hail in North Carolina, May 1, 1998
- Drought in Texas, May 1 to 31, 1998
- Drought in Texas, May 1 to 31, 1998
- Lightning Strike in Oregon, May 1, 1998
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Virginia, May 1, 1998
- Flash Flood in Ohio, May 1 to 2, 1998
- Flooding in Illinois, May 1 to 20, 1998
- Flooding in Kentucky, May 1 to 16, 1998
- Hail in Texas, May 1, 1998
- Hail in Georgia, May 1, 1998
More
Every storm in California in 1998Every state in 1998This day in weather historyWarnings in California, May 1998
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: 5662392.