Tornado, Glenn
- When
- July 5, 5:15 PM PST to 5:18 PM PST
- Where
- Glenn County, 7 mi NW of Artois
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.2 mi
- Path width
- 0.1 yd
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 39.683, -122.300
Tornado in California, July 5, 2000
A weak rope tornado was spotted by a construction worker approximately 7 miles northwest of Artois. A tornado warning had been issued for the area at 4:57 pm based upon radar indications of a well-developed mesocyclonic structure.
Where it happened
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- 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
- 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.
A weak rope tornado was spotted by a construction worker approximately 7 miles northwest of Artois. A tornado warning had been issued for the area at 4:57 pm based upon radar indications of a well-developed mesocyclonic structure.
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Tornado
- A violently rotating column of air in contact with the ground and extending from a thunderstorm, filed with its path, width and Fujita or Enhanced Fujita rating from the damage survey.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Tornado and Hail in Colorado, July 5, 2000
- Heat in Texas, July 5, 2000
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Iowa, July 5, 2000
- Flash Flood and Hail in Nebraska, July 5 to 6, 2000
- Damaging Wind in Nebraska, July 5, 2000
- Damaging Wind in Nebraska, July 5, 2000
- Lightning Strike in South Carolina, July 5, 2000
- Damaging Wind in Florida, July 5, 2000
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Montana, July 5 to 6, 2000
- Flash Flooding in Ohio, July 5, 2000
- Damaging Winds in Illinois, July 5, 2000
- Flash Flooding and Hail in North Dakota, July 5, 2000
More
Every storm in California in 2000Every state in 2000This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for California, 2000Warnings 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: 5171399.