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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.
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 STO wrote it up.
In about a 48 hour span, downtown Sacramento more than doubled its seasonal precipitation climbing from 3.91 inches to 8.21 inches. Officially for the event, downtown Sacramento received 4.30 inches. On the 24th, Sacramento easily established a new daily precipitation record with 3.11 inches. The previous record for the date was 1.76 inches. Saturated grounds along with breezy conditions were responsible for a tree's collapse which critically injured a Sacramento resident. The same uprooted tree damaged two passenger vehicles and a residence. SMUD reported that the extreme weather caused 1,871 customers to lose power.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 heavy rain. Local standard time, as filed.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in California in 2000Every state in 2000This day in weather historyWarnings in California, January 2000
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: 5129125.