Funnel Cloud, Madera
- When
- February 9, 4:37 PM PST to 4:41 PM PST
- Where
- Madera County, 12 mi SE of Madera
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 37.218, -119.763 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Hail in California, February 9, 1999
1 funnel cloud, 1 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it; 2 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
- None recorded
- Events
- 2
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 radar
The San Joaquin Valley radar (KHNX), 101 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 00:36 UTC.
Event by event
1 funnel cloud, 1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Fresno
- When
- February 9, 4:58 PM PST to 5:16 PM PST
- Where
- Fresno County, 10 mi NW of (Fch) Chandler Af
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 36.758, -119.649 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Following the funnel cloud report in Madera County at 1637 PST, pea size hail subsequently occurred in Northwest Fresno (4 miles SE of funnel sighting) at 1658 PST and other small hail in the Tower District of Fresno (another 6 miles farther SE) at 1716 PST...all by trained spotters.
What these are
- Funnel Cloud
- A rotating column of cloud extending from a thunderstorm that did not reach the ground.
- Hail
- Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Heavy Snow in Montana, February 9, 1999
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Mississippi, February 9, 1999
- Hail and Lightning Strikes in Georgia, February 9 to 10, 1999
- Winter Storm and Damaging Winds in Idaho, February 9 to 10, 1999
- Dense Fog in Oklahoma, February 9 to 10, 1999
- High Wind in California, February 9, 1999
- Winter Storm and High Wind in California, February 9, 1999
- High Wind in California, February 9, 1999
- Flash Flood in California, February 9, 1999
- Flash Flood in Alabama, February 9, 1999
- Dense Fog in Florida, February 9, 1999
- Dust Storm in California, February 9, 1999
More
Every storm in California in 1999Every state in 1999This day in weather historyWarnings in California, February 1999
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: 5689080, 5689161.