Tornado, Glenn
- When
- June 6, 2:30 PM PST to 3:30 PM PST
- Where
- Glenn County, Artois
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.1 mi
- Path width
- 6 yd
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 39.617, -122.200
A brief tornado touchdown was reported by CHP and the public.
Tornado in California, June 6, 2005
1 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it. 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
- 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 forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Sacramento, CA wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 6, 9:00 AM PST, 5 hours 30 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 6, 9:00 AM PST, 5 hours 30 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SACRAMENTO CA 900 AM PDT MON JUNE 6 2005 .DISCUSSION... UPPER LEVEL LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM OVER THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST AND THE ASSOCATED TROUGH WILL BRING SOME SHORTWAVES THROUGH NORTHERN CALIFORNIA THE NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS. THIS WILL BRING BELOW NORMAL TEMPERATURES AND SOME CLOUDS. THE NORTHERN MOUNTAINS WILL HAVE SOME INSTABILITY AND LIFT OVER THE AREA FOR SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. CUMULUS WILL DEVELOP OVER THE SIERRA BUT DO NOT EXPECT ANY SHOWERS OR THUNDERSTORMS AT THIS TIME. SHORTWAVES MOVE THROUGH AGAIN TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY BRING A POSSIBILITY FOR ISOLATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE MOUNTAINS...MAINLY NORTH OF INTERSTATE 80. THE TROUGH MOVES TO THE EAST ON THURSDAY AND A RIDGE BUILDS IN OVER NORTHERN CALIFORNIA BRINGING WARMER WEATHER. HS .AVIATION... UPPER LEVEL LOW PRESSURE MOVES INTO OREGON WITH NORTHWEST FLOW ALOFT. INCREASING MOISTURE AND WEAK INSTABILITY KUKI-KMHS-KAAT THRU 06Z. VFR CONDITIONS EXPECTED AT ALL TAF SITES NEXT 24 HRS. AREAS MVFR CIGS WITH ISOLATED RAIN SHOWERS EXPECTED ALONG THE COASTAL AND SHASTA COUNTY MOUNTAINS 20Z-03Z. SLIGHT CHANCE OF AN AFTERNOON THUNDERSTORM WESTERN PLUMAS COUNTY AND LASSEN PARK...AS WELL AS KRDD 21Z-03Z. KSCK WILL HAVE GUSTY WEST WINDS AFT 19Z AS FLOW THROUGH THE DELTA INCREASES. SG && .STO WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...NONE. && HS
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 6, 6:00 AM PST, 8 hours 30 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SACRAMENTO CA 700 AM PDT MON JUN 6 2005 CAZ013>019-063-064-066>069-071400- SHASTA LAKE AREA/NORTHERN SHASTA COUNTY- BURNEY BASIN/EASTERN SHASTA COUNTY-NORTHERN SACRAMENTO VALLEY- CENTRAL SACRAMENTO VALLEY-SOUTHERN SACRAMENTO VALLEY- CARQUINEZ STRAIT AND DELTA-NORTHERN SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY- MOUNTAINS SOUTHWESTERN SHASTA TO NORTHERN LAKE COUNTIES- CLEAR LAKE/SOUTHERN LAKE COUNTY-MOTHERLODE- EAST FOOTHILLS/NORTH SACRAMENTO VALLEY- WESTERN PLUMAS COUNTY/LASSEN PARK-WEST SLOPE NORTHERN SIERRA NEVADA- 700 AM PDT MON JUN 6 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR INTERIOR NORTHERN CALIFORNIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION IS AVAILABLE ON THE INTERNET AT (LOWER CASE): HTTP://WWW.WRH.NOAA.GOV/STO CRS
The radar
The Beale AFB radar (KBBX), 51 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 22:30 UTC.
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
- Heat in Pennsylvania, June 6, 2005
- Heat in Missouri, June 6, 2005
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Montana, June 6 to 7, 2005
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Maryland, June 6 to 7, 2005
- Hail and Damaging Wind in New Mexico, June 6, 2005
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Nebraska, June 6, 2005
- Flood and Hail in Georgia, June 6, 2005
- Tornado and Hail in Texas, June 6, 2005
- Lightning Strike in Pennsylvania, June 6, 2005
- Tornadoes and Hail in Nebraska, June 6, 2005
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Virginia, June 6, 2005
- Lightning Strikes in Pennsylvania, June 6, 2005
More
Every storm in California in 2005Every state in 2005This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for California, 2005Warnings in California, June 2005
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: 5470610.