A cold winter storm brought low snow levels to the foothills adjacent to the northern Sacramento Valley and gusty winds to the mountains.
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.
A cold winter storm brought low snow levels to the foothills adjacent to the northern Sacramento Valley and gusty winds to the mountains.
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 Jan 27, 4:30 AM PST, 1 hour 30 minutes earlier.
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</html>HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SACRAMENTO CA 525 AM PST SUN JAN 27 2008 CAZ013>019-063-064-066>069-281500- 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- 525 AM PST SUN JAN 27 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR INTERIOR NORTHERN CALIFORNIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY A STORM SYSTEM WILL CONTINUE TO BRING PERIODS OF HEAVY SNOW ALONG WITH LOCALLY GUSTY WINDS TO THE HIGHER TERRAIN OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA TODAY AND TONIGHT. * WINTER STORM WARNING.......SEE WWUS46 KSTO - WSWSTO FOR DETAILS * .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY ADDITIONAL PRECIPITATION WILL BE POSSIBLE TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...AND THEN AGAIN LATER IN THE WEEK...OTHERWISE NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .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
5 winter storm. Local standard time, as filed.
Snow levels briefly dropped to near 1500 feet with up to a foot of snow falling above 4000 feet. Wind gusts reached 40 mph.
Snow levels dropped to near 1000 feet with more than a foot of snow falling at the higher elevations. Wind gusts reached 40 mph.
Snow levels dropped to near 3000 feet with one to two feet of snow falling at the higher elevations. Wind gusts reached 55 mph.
Snow levels dropped to the basin floor with more than a foot of snow falling at the higher elevations. Wind gusts reached 40 mph.
Snow levels dropped to near 3000 feet with one to two feet of snow falling at the higher elevations. Wind gusts reached 55 mph.
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, January 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 2026-10-01. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 111590, 111591, 111594, 111592, 111593.