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NHC HURDAT2 · SPC Tornado Database

Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Sanger, CA

Every tropical system within 75 miles since 1851 and every tornado within 25 miles since 1950.

No tropical storm or hurricane has passed within 75 miles of Sanger, California since records began in 1851. Since 1950, 30 tornadoes have touched down within 25 miles, 0 of them rated EF3 or stronger.

Hurricanes
0

within 75 mi, since 1851

Tropical storms
0

below hurricane strength

Tornadoes
30

within 25 mi, since 1950

EF3 or stronger
0

no recorded deaths

Tornadoes within 25 miles of Sanger

By decade

  • 2010s4
  • 2000s5
  • 1990s8
  • 1980s7
  • 1970s3
  • 1960s2
  • 1950s1
Strongest tornadoes near Sanger, California
DateRatingDistancePathKilled / injured
Mar 22, 1962F215 mi0.5 mi0 / 0
Jan 17, 2019EF18 mi0.25 mi0 / 0
Mar 8, 1986F110 mi4 mi0 / 0
Mar 28, 1982F112 mi5 mi0 / 1
Feb 19, 1980F111 mi1.7 mi0 / 2
Mar 14, 1979F112 mi2 mi0 / 0
May 19, 1957F116 mi0.1 mi0 / 0
Mar 22, 2018EF023 mi1.19 mi0 / 0
Feb 12, 2018EF04 mi0.3 mi0 / 0
Jan 18, 2010EF017 mi0.53 mi0 / 0
May 9, 2005F011 mi0 / 0
Oct 20, 2004F021 mi0.5 mi0 / 0

The strongest 12 of 30, by rating and then by deaths. Ratings before February 2007 are on the original Fujita scale.

How to read this page

A storm is listed when the centre of its track passed within 75 miles of Sanger while it was at least a tropical storm, which is the reach of damaging wind and rain for a typical hurricane. Being on the list does not mean the city took a direct hit; the "closest" column says how near the centre came. Tornadoes are counted when any part of the path came within 25 miles.

Tornado records before the 1990s are thinner, because weak tornadoes in open country often went unreported before Doppler radar and mobile phones. A rise in the decade counts is mostly better reporting, not a change in the weather.

Tracks come from the National Hurricane Center's HURDAT2 database, tornadoes from the Storm Prediction Center's database. Both are the official federal records and both are revised as old storms are re-analysed.

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