A cool, wet Pacific system brought hazardous driving over mountain roads, local road flooding in the Central Valley, and damaging winds.
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The episode as NWS STO wrote it up.
A cool, wet Pacific system brought hazardous driving over mountain roads, local road flooding in the Central Valley, and damaging winds.
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 6, 4:55 AM PST, 3 hours 5 minutes earlier.
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</html>The Sacramento radar (KDAX), 23 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 23:30 UTC.
3 flood, 2 high wind, 1 heavy snow, 1 heavy rain, 1 lightning, 1 funnel cloud. Local standard time, as filed.
Heavy snow was reported across the northern Sierra: 29 Alpine Ski Resort, 19 at Kirkwood Ski Resort, 14 at Sierra at Tahoe, 15 at Sugar Bowl. This caused travel delays and chain controls on mountain highways such as I80 and Highway 50.
A gust of 69 mph was measured 3 miles east southeast of Anderson.
The California Highway Patrol reported heavy rain caused flooding on Highway 16 in Woodland.
California Highway Patrol reported heavy rain caused flooding of Highway 99 in Galt.
California Highway Patrol reported heavy rain caused flooding of the southbound lane of Interstate 5 in downtown Sacramento.
A wind gust to 60 mph was measured at McClellan Airfield. Numerous trees were reported down in the area.
A spotter reported a 12 hour rainfall total of 0.82.
A video from Gridley, CA showed lighting striking a power pole.
There was a public report of a possible funnel cloud near southwest Oroville. No touch down was observed.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in California in 2019Every state in 2019This day in weather historyWarnings in California, January 2019
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: 805047, 805046, 804959, 804961, 804962, 805048, 804964, 804960, 804963.