High pressure brought clear skies and warm temperatures to the Central 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 brought clear skies and warm temperatures to the Central 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 Feb 28, 8:30 PM PST, 3 hours 30 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SACRAMENTO CA 830 PM PST THU FEB 28 2008 .DISCUSSION... A WEAK WEATHER SYSTEM WILL APPROACH THE NORTHERN INTERIOR BY EARLY EVENING ON FRIDAY. IN GENERAL THIS SYSTEM LOOKS VERY WEAK PRODUCING VERY LIGHT AMOUNTS OF PRECIPITATION OVER THE MOUNTAINS AND FOOTHILLS AND PERHAPS THE NORTHERN SACRAMENTO VALLEY FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY MORNING. THE COLDER AIR ASSOCIATED WITH THE SYSTEM WILL COOL TEMPERATURES THE NEXT TWO DAYS. INSTEAD OF THE UPPER 70S IN THE NORTHERN SACRAMENTO VALLEY EXPECT MIDDLE 60S FOR FRIDAY TO AROUND 70 DEGREES FOR THE NORTHERN SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY. CONTINUED COOLER AIR WILL FILTER INTO THE REGION BEHIND THIS SYSTEM ON SATURDAY. A RIDGE WILL BRIEFLY BUILD BEHIND THIS SYSTEM ON SUNDAY BUT ANOTHER WEAKER SYSTEM WILL FLATTEN THE RIDGE ON MONDAY BUT NO PRECIPITATION IS EXPECTED. AFTER THAT A BIG RIDGE OF HIGH PRESSURE WILL BUILD OVER THE WESTERN STATES FOR NEXT WEEK. TEMPERATURES IN THE CENTRAL VALLEY COULD BE IN THE 70S FOR MOST OF THE WEEK. && .AVIATION... VFR CONDITIONS EXPECTED FOR MOST OF THE INTERIOR WITH LCL MVFR VSBYS DEVELOPING 10Z-12Z AND LASTING THROUGH ABOUT 17Z. ISOLD -SHRA AND AREAS OF MVFR CIGS MAY DEVELOP AFT 00Z OVR THE MTNS N OF I-80. && .STO WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...NONE. &&
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SACRAMENTO CA 700 AM PST THU FEB 28 2008 CAZ013>019-063-064-066>069-291500- 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 PST THU FEB 28 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR INTERIOR NORTHERN CALIFORNIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY A WEAK SYSTEM IS EXPECTED TO BRUSH THROUGH AROUND THE INTERSTATE 80 CORRIDOR AND NORTH FRIDAY NIGHT INTO SATURDAY BRINGING A CHANCE OF PRECIPITATION. OTHERWISE...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 HSO
1 heat. Local standard time, as filed.
The high temperature in Stockton reached 72 degrees. This broke the previous daily record high temperature of 70 degrees set in 1952.
The high temperature in Modesto reached 75 degrees. This broke the previous daily record high temperature of 73 degrees set in 1992.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in California in 2008Every state in 2008This day in weather historyWarnings in California, February 2008
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: 79108.