Storm History: Stanislaus County, California
Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Stanislaus County, California: floods, hail, damaging wind, tornadoes, winter storms, heat and the rest, with the most serious on record. Events filed by forecast zone count for every county the zone covers.
The record
- Events
- 80
- Deaths
- 1
- Injuries
- 2
- Damage
- $3.3 million
- Episodes
- 63
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.
Every year
By kind of event
Counted under the kind that heads each episode.
| Kind of event | Events | Deaths | Injuries | Damage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tornado | 25 | 0 | 1 | $1.7 million |
| Flood | 19 | 1 | 1 | $550,000 |
| Heavy Rain | 12 | 0 | 0 | $850,000 |
| Funnel Cloud | 7 | 0 | 0 | |
| Flash Flood | 5 | 0 | 0 | |
| Hail | 3 | 0 | 0 | $5,000 |
| Lightning | 2 | 0 | 0 | $20,000 |
| Blizzard | 2 | 0 | 0 | $100,000 |
| Winter Storm | 2 | 0 | 0 | |
| Heavy Snow | 2 | 0 | 0 | $10,000 |
| Thunderstorm Wind | 1 | 0 | 0 |
The deadliest
The costliest
Damage within this county, in the dollars of its year.
- Tornado, November 15, 2015
- Heavy Rain, April 2, 2006
- Tornado, January 14, 1980
- Flood, April 14, 2006
- Flood, March 21, 2017
- Tornado, December 24, 2015
- Flood, January 1, 2006
- Blizzard, January 26, 2021
- Tornado, March 1, 1978
- Tornado, March 4, 1978
- Heavy Rain, November 23, 1996
- Heavy Rain, March 22, 2005
- Lightning, May 25, 2018
- Tornado, April 1, 2025
- Tornado, April 14, 2006
- Tornado, December 12, 1996
- Heavy Snow, March 15, 2025
- Hail, May 9, 2005
- Tornado, January 7, 2023
- Tornado, April 27, 1953
The largest hail
The largest stone in each episode, which may have fallen in a neighboring county of the same episode.
The strongest tornadoes
Every episode, newest first
- Flood, April 20, 2026
- Flood, January 2, 2026
- Flood, December 24, 2025
- Tornado, April 1, 2025
- Heavy Snow, March 15, 2025
- Flood, February 4, 2024
- Flood, January 19, 2024
- Tornado, December 18, 2023
- Flood, March 27, 2023
- Tornado, March 10, 2023
- Tornado, January 7, 2023
- Flash Flood, December 27, 2022
- Flood, December 9, 2022
- Winter Storm, December 21, 2021
- Winter Storm, October 24, 2021
- Blizzard, January 26, 2021
- Flash Flood, May 16, 2019
- Lightning, May 25, 2018
- Flood, March 21, 2017
- Tornado, January 6, 2017
- Tornado, April 27, 2016
- Tornado, December 24, 2015
- Tornado, November 15, 2015
- Heavy Rain, October 13, 2009
- Flash Flood, October 3, 2008
- Blizzard, January 4, 2008
- Heavy Rain, October 12, 2007
- Heavy Rain, July 24, 2007
- Heavy Rain, April 22, 2007
- Heavy Rain, December 12, 2006
- Flood, April 14, 2006
- Tornado, April 14, 2006
- Heavy Rain, April 2, 2006
- Flood, January 1, 2006
- Heavy Rain, December 17, 2005
- Heavy Rain, September 20, 2005
- Hail, May 9, 2005
- Funnel Cloud, May 9, 2005
- Hail, May 9, 2005
- Heavy Rain, March 22, 2005
- Tornado, March 20, 2005
- Funnel Cloud, March 19, 2005
- Lightning, September 22, 1999
- Funnel Cloud, May 5, 1998
- Funnel Cloud, May 5, 1998
- Funnel Cloud, May 5, 1998
- Flood, March 2, 1998
- Heavy Rain, January 18, 1998
- Heavy Rain, January 12, 1998
- Tornado, December 12, 1996
- Heavy Rain, November 23, 1996
- Tornado, April 1, 1996
- Funnel Cloud, March 12, 1996
- Hail, March 11, 1996
- Flood, February 5, 1996
- Funnel Cloud, February 5, 1996
- Tornado, March 19, 1981
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 23, 1980
- Tornado, January 14, 1980
- Tornado, March 4, 1978
- Tornado, March 1, 1978
- Tornado, April 1, 1958
- Tornado, April 27, 1953
More
Tornadoes in Stanislaus CountyEvery warning in Stanislaus County since 1986Every county in California
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.