Tornado near Sacramento?

[slor]

Just heard on CNN. I know they can form virtually anywhere, but is this unusual?

[cally]

1. I've never heard of a tornado here

Do you have more info?

[Ladyhawk]

8. I have...they're rare, but the valley gets them sometimes.

I saw a funnel cloud south of Fresno, once. It didn't quite qualify as a tornado, I don't think but it probably could have killed a person with a direct hit.

[kurth]

2. God is angry at Ah-nuld

[dave29]

3. Check the tornado map link below

http://www.edgetech-us.com/Map/MapTornado.htm

[djeseru]

4. Unusual?

I used to think so, but not anymore. And I grew up in Tornado Alley.

When I heard of them hitting urban areas over the past several years, I kind of figured they're becoming more common.

[AlCzervik]

5. i just got the tv interuptus from the nationial weather service, yolo

county, part of sacramento country and i didn't hear the other one. I'm in south sacramento and hoping for the best.

[rurallib]

6. We haven't had any in our area of the midwest for many years

Yet Sacramento has one???? It hardly ever even rains here anymore.
Maybe God is a woman and one that Ahnuld fondled?

[Kadie]

7. here is a local link...

we get these every once in awhile...

http://www.kcra.com/weather/7543719/detail.html

Tornado Warning Issued: Sacramento, Solano, Yolo

POSTED: 9:38 am PST February 28, 2006
UPDATED: 10:14 am PST February 28, 2006

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SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- The National Weather Service in Sacramento has issued a tornado warning for southwestern Sacramento County, east central Solano County and extreme southeastern Yolo County.

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The warning is in effect until 10:30 a.m.

Residents should seek shelter in the lowest floor of a building in an interior hallway, room or closets and to use blankets or pillows to cover themselves, according to the NWS. Residents should stay away from windows. Those in cars should evacuate them and find shelter.

[Kadie]

10. watch live news here...

http://www.cbs13.com/

[MuseRider]

15. Thanks

watching from the land of Oz and yes, you do have a nice little wall cloud there. Be careful.

[Webster Green]

9. Unusual, but not rare...

The storm that just moved through here (headed towards Sacramento) was pretty intense. Very high winds, and lots of rain. It's just started to clear up here on the Sonoma coast.

[AlCzervik]

11. the thunder is just starting here and the sky looks ominous.

[slor]

13. I am moving to Sonoma County in a few weeks...

from Ohio, which has its share of twisters, so I was kind of hoping they were really rare out there.

[Webster Green]

16. Awesome move!

They'll drag me kicking and screaming from Northern California. I can't imagine living anywhere else.:hi:

[Sequoia]

17. Be prepared to spend money

The cost of living is pretty high. Pretty though.

[confludemocrat]

21. Oh no, rare. Growing up there lightning rare, hail rare, tornado once,

and that was off in Northern Sacto Co. out by Sloughhouse or something. Snow maybe four times in my 22 years there.

[GreenPartyVoter]

12. Even Maine gets tornadoes. Shocked me to find that out.

[Mythsaje]

14. We even occasionally get twisters

up here in the Great NW. Some years back one dropped and took out a church's fence. We also get waterspouts on occasion as well.

[Blue Belle]

18. I used to live on the Oregon Coast and saw a water spout form there...

it was kinda trippy/creepy.

[Mythsaje]

19. I missed seeing one off of Bremerton

about fifteen years ago. Missed it by minutes, apparently. I was bummed.

[Blue Belle]

29. The one I saw was in Lincoln City...

It was extremely overcast, but I could just make out the funnel-shaped cloud on the not too distant horizon. It was weird. I had a similar experience when I lived in Colorado Springs. We were always concerned about funnel clouds whenever we had a thunder storm.

[Mythsaje]

30. Only occasionally

do we have weather that looks potentially conducive to the formation of funnel clouds. I'm fascinated by the phenomenon, but have yet to ever see it first-hand, even at a distance. Probably a good thing, too, lest my curiosity get the better of my good judgement.

[Semi_subversive]

20. One touches down every once in a while

They're usually pretty small and do minimal damage. This one was about 8 miles from Rio Vista. I've been looking out my window in that direction and haven't seen anything other than lots of dark clouds. The warning expired at 10:30.

[AlCzervik]

22. Hail!! Huge angry hail!!!

[davidinalameda]

23. nasty storms are moving through the area

San Fran had a hail storm this morning

high winds all through the Bay Area

just not a good day weather-wise

[leeroysphitz]

24. Sacramento? Isn't that a sign of the end-times?

Thought I read that in a Chic tract or something...

[fed-up]

25. thanks for the warning from northern central valley where sun is shining

along with some patchy clouds.

Last night's storm was a solid band of orange that sat along the Sacramento River for a short while, dumped a ton of rain filling creeks and roadside ditches as it moved from west to east.

Since the Sierra Nevada mountains buffer the east side of the Central Valley and since sometimes we get storms from the east, the south and the north, at the same time conditions can be just right for a tornado or two during the year. So far the closest one to me has been about 10 miles away. I am 8 miles east of valley floor so I don't need to worry.

Here is doplar radar for the area

http://www.wunderground.com/radar/radblast.asp?ID=BBX®ion=b1&lat=39.72507095&lon=-121.81204224&label=Chico%2c%20CA

[Lochloosa]

26. Some nasty looking storms right below Sacramento

http://radar.weather.gov/radar.php?rid=dax&product=N0R&overlay=11101111&loop=no

[Garbo 2004]

27. More thunderstorms possible this afternoon, they've been saying.

Weather svs just issued a severe thunderstorm alert for Northeast Sacto County (Folsom and thereabouts). Think it's the same stuff that previously hit Laguna, Elk Grove, etc.

[AlCzervik]

28. moving northeast now at 25mph, all of you in republican heavy Folsom

it's on it's way.