2 tornadoes reported, multiple funnel clouds spotted in NorCal

Funnel cloud/tornadoNews10 KXTV – by Darla Givens and Monica Woods

SACRAMENTO – At least two tornadoes touched down in Northern California Wednesday evening.

The first tornado was spotted in Glenn County. Trained spotters reported seeing a funnel cloud around 3:15 p.m. This cell moved very slow and continued to bring a chance of severe weather for nearly three hours. The storm produced hail nearly 1.25 inches in diameter.  

The second tornado was seen west of Roseville around 6:15 p.m. The National Weather Service said the EF0 tornado’s wind speeds were between 75-85 mph, had a width of 10-20 yards and a damage path of 200-300 yards. The tornado damaged a roof, blew out two windows, blew down 25-30 feet of fence and caused projectile damage. It lasted about 5 minutes.

Several tornado warnings were issued for Placer, Sutter, El Dorado and Sacramento counties around 5:40 p.m. after a trained weather spotter saw a funnel cloud near Pleasant Grove.

Later this week, NWS meteorologists will assess the damage at other sites funnel clouds were reported to determine how many tornadoes may have hit Northern California.

No injuries were reported in connection to the tornadoes or funnel clouds.

Active weather popped up across the Valley, including some strong cells that moved across the Northern San Joaquin Valley and Southeastern Sacramento County. Showers and thunderstorms formed near Stockton, Modesto, east side of the Sacramento area and into the Mother Lode and foothills area.

Since midnight, the valley has seen about 0.50 inch of rain.

Photo shared with News10 on Wednesday, March 26, 2014.

This when right before it touched down in our neighborhood/West Park right above our house. Many homes were damaged off Kirkton Lane. (Photo shared with News10 on Wednesday, March 26, 2014)

Seen  over Folsom, March 26, 2014

Sacramento just off the Interstate 99 going towards Rio Linda/ Elverta. This was on Elverta Road.

Funnel cloud seen from Rio Linda, March 26, 2014

Photo shared with News10 on Wednesday, March 26, 2014.

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10 thoughts on “2 tornadoes reported, multiple funnel clouds spotted in NorCal

  1. The weather has become abnormal and I am pretty sure I know who
    is doing this. Unpredictable – even the weather person can’t get it
    right. How could they; it’s man made.

    1. I was wondering if anyone else saw that the weather man cant predict anymore. Our guys down here used to do a really good job of weather forecasting. Now they cant get it right even the day before. They will call for wall to wall sunshine and it rains and they will call for thunderstorms and the sun comes out.
      I think that they have screwed it up so bad that it is out of control now.

      1. Here’s the other thing I noticed, Bulldog. Some point along the way, they stopped printing in the paper what yesterday’s temperatures were, which I know they did when I was a kid. “today will be in the upper 60s. Yesterday reached a high of 65 and tomorrow we expect temperatures in the low 70s.”

        I will also say this. For about 13 years as I was “aging,” I developed an increasingly reliable ability to predict incoming storms with the aches and pains I would feel. I could predict very accurately if the storm was 1 or 2 days out (depending how acute the pains were) and what time it would hit (within an hour or so). I have not been able to do that for a few years! I chalked it up to maybe I am getting healthier (??) but maybe it is something else?

        On another note, this morning as I was driving to work, CLEAR BLUE SKIES except for a wall to my right where the planes had already been, and the chemtrail planes criss-crossing everywhere filling up the rest of the blue, and the forecaster on the radio said, “cloudy skies today.” We are supposed to have rain tomorrow, and I feel not a single ache nor pain (except in my heart I suppose).

        1. EE,
          I agree. I have a weather knee that never used to fail me. I only get accurate forecasts from my weather knee occasionally now.

          1. Well then, Bulldog, maybe that’s another way of knowing when a storm is “real” or manufactured. 😉

        2. I’m thinking the weatherman follows the schedule of the chemtrail planes. You know, those planes that he laughs at and denies having any involvement in weather modification.

          So if the planes come out, he will say cloudy skies. If not, he says, sunny skies.

          Yep, there’s no need to get a college degree to be a meteorologist anymore.

  2. Tornados in California? Is that even possible or normal? I thought they only get Earthquakes, mudslides and maybe Hurricanes or Tsunamis?

    1. We had a tornado in Fresno back in the late 70’s or early 80’s and everybody couldn’t believe it. Not supposed to have tornado’s in Calif. As far as the weathermen are concerned, they look at gauges and don’t even go outside and look anymore. Last night they were saying that we had no rain but I was out back of work and saw it coming down along the mountains. I can’t remember what they called it but basically they said there was no precipitation. These guys today can’t predict crap.

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