High pressure over the region led to higher than normal temperatures across the Sacramento Valley.
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.
High pressure over the region led to higher than normal temperatures across the Sacramento Valley.
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 Apr 4, 8:00 PM PST, 4 hours earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SACRAMENTO CA 900 PM PDT TUE APR 4 2007 .DISCUSSION... WEAK RIDGE OVER NORTHERN CALIFORNIA THE NEXT COUPLE DAYS WITH A LOW OFFSHORE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA THURSDAY AND MOVING INLAND FRIDAY. SOME INSTABILITY OVER THE SIERRA AS A WEAK SHORTWAVE MOVES THROUGH TOMORROW AND AS THE DEFORMATION AXIS IS OVER THE AREA ON FRIDAY. THIS INSTABILITY COULD SQUEEZE OUT SOME ISOLATED SHOWERS IN THE SIERRA. A PIECE OF ENERGY FROM THE GULF OF ALASKA LOW AND MOVES THROUGH NORTHERN CALIFORNIA ON SATURDAY. THIS WILL BRING COOLER TEMPERATURES AND A CHANCE OF SHOWERS. ALTHOUGH THERE IS STILL UNCERTAINTY IN THE STRENGTH AND THE TRACK OF THIS LOW. THE MODELS SEEM TO BE SENDING SEVERAL WAVES THROUGH INTO EARLY NEXT WEEK. WITH THE STORM TRACK RUNNING THROUGH FAR NORTHERN CALIFORNIA WE WILL SEE PERIODS OF SHOWERS NEXT WEEK. && .AVIATION... VFR CONDITIONS WITH MID TO HIGH LEVEL CLOUDS OVER THE AREA THROUGH TOMORROW EXCEPT SOME ISOLD IFR CONDITIONS IN THE BAY AREA 12Z-17Z. SOME CUMULUS MAY BUILD OVER THE SIERRA TOMORROW AFTERNOON WITH AN ISOLATED SHOWER AND MVFR CONDITIONS POSSIBLE. && .STO WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...NONE &&
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SACRAMENTO CA 700 AM PDT WED APR 4 2007 CAZ013>019-063-064-066>069-041400- 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 WED APR 4 2007 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR INTERIOR NORTHERN CALIFORNIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY POTENTIAL EXISTS FOR STRONG ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS SATURDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... WEATHER SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER CONDITIONS TO THEIR LOCAL NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE. THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION IS AVAILABLE ON THE INTERNET AT (LOWER CASE): HTTP://WWW.WRH.NOAA.GOV/STO JCLAPP
1 heat. Local standard time, as filed.
A daily high temperature record of 89 degrees was set at the Redding airport. The previous record was 86 degrees set in 1985.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in California in 2007Every state in 2007This day in weather historyWarnings in California, April 2007
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: 17532.