Heat, Sw Shasta/W Tehama/W Glenn/X Nw Colusa/N Lake
- When
- July 29, 12:01 AM PST to July 31, 11:59 PM PST
- Where
- Sw Shasta/W Tehama/W Glenn/X Nw Colusa/N Lake forecast zone
- Reported by
- AWOS,ASOS,MESONET,ETC
Heat in California, July 29 to 31, 2000
Excessive heat impacted the Sacramento and northern San Joaquin Valleys during the last few days of July. Temperatures reached and exceeded 100 degrees in many areas before peaking on the 31st at 104 degrees in Sacramento and Stockton and at 110 degrees in Redding.
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 4
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.
Excessive heat impacted the Sacramento and northern San Joaquin Valleys during the last few days of July. Temperatures reached and exceeded 100 degrees in many areas before peaking on the 31st at 104 degrees in Sacramento and Stockton and at 110 degrees in Redding. The Redding reading set a new daily maximum temperature record...breaking the previous mark of 108 degrees set in 1993.
Event by event
4 heat. Local standard time, as filed.
Heat, C & E Glenn/Colusa T X W/N Sutter/Sw Yuba/Butte T X E
- When
- July 29, 12:01 AM PST to July 31, 11:59 PM PST
- Where
- C & E Glenn/Colusa T X W/N Sutter/Sw Yuba/Butte T X E forecast zone
- Reported by
- AWOS,ASOS,MESONET,ETC
Heat, Yolo T W/Ne Solano/Sacramento T X Sw/X W Placer/X W Amador/S Sutter
- When
- July 29, 12:01 AM PST to July 31, 11:59 PM PST
- Where
- Yolo T W/Ne Solano/Sacramento T X Sw/X W Placer/X W Amador/S Sutter forecast zone
- Reported by
- AWOS,ASOS,MESONET,ETC
Heat, San Joaquin T Nw/Stanislaus/X Sw Tuolumne/Sw Calaveras
- When
- July 29, 12:01 AM PST to July 31, 11:59 PM PST
- Where
- San Joaquin T Nw/Stanislaus/X Sw Tuolumne/Sw Calaveras forecast zone
- Reported by
- AWOS,ASOS,MESONET,ETC
What these are
- Heat
- Heat below excessive heat criteria that still caused deaths, injuries or significant impacts.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Heat in Texas, July 29, 2000
- Lightning Strike in Florida, July 29, 2000
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Ohio, July 29, 2000
- Flash Flood in New York, July 29, 2000
- Flash Flooding in Michigan, July 29, 2000
- Damaging Wind in Alabama, July 29, 2000
- Flash Flood and Damaging Wind in Virginia, July 29, 2000
- Hail and Lightning Strike in Tennessee, July 29, 2000
- Damaging Wind in Florida, July 29, 2000
- Flash Flood in New York, July 29, 2000
- Flood and Damaging Winds in Georgia, July 29, 2000
- Wildfire in California, July 29 to 31, 2000
More
Every storm in California in 2000Every state in 2000This day in weather historyWarnings in California, July 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: 5171395, 5171396, 5171397, 5171398.