Flood, Southern Sacramento Valley
- When
- January 23, 1:00 PM PST to January 24, 11:00 PM PST
- Where
- Southern Sacramento Valley forecast zone
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Reported by
- EMERGENCY MANAGER
Flood in California, January 23 to 24, 2000
Persistant rains which measured for 34 continuous hours swelled Dry Creek over its banks in Rio Linda. Cherry Lane, 6th Street, as well as Curved Bridge Road were flooded.
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $25,000
- 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.
Persistant rains which measured for 34 continuous hours swelled Dry Creek over its banks in Rio Linda. Cherry Lane, 6th Street, as well as Curved Bridge Road were flooded. Twelve homeowners had water over their property. Two of them sustained interior flooding while another five sustained flooded garages. The Grant Joint Union High School District closed Rio Linda junior and senior high schools in fear that students wouldn't get home safely. Approximately 2,500 students were sent home early.
Event by event
1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Flood
- Flooding that develops more slowly than a flash flood: rivers leaving their banks, or water standing over land for an extended time.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Winter Storm in Kansas, January 23, 2000
- Hail in Louisiana, January 23, 2000
- Flood in California, January 23 to 24, 2000
- Winter Storm in Nebraska, January 23, 2000
- Freezing Fog in New Jersey, January 23 to 24, 2000
- Ice Storm in Georgia, January 23, 2000
- High Surf in Hawaii, January 23 to 24, 2000
- Winter Weather in Missouri, January 23, 2000
- Winter Storm in Kansas, January 23, 2000
- Freezing Fog in Delaware, January 23 to 24, 2000
- Winter Storm in California, January 23 to 25, 2000
- Heavy Snow in California, January 23 to 24, 2000
More
Every storm in California in 2000Every state in 2000This day in weather historyWarnings in California, January 2000
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: 5131103.