News10 Sacramento: Possible Tornadoes Sighted in Glenn County

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The north Valley gets small tornados. In the 70's when I was at Chico State one came through the Mervyns parking lot and kicked cars around.

There is a certain spectrum of political ideology that thinks Al Gore had something to do with climate change, which is like saying the rodeo announcer was responsible for the bull rider making it 8 seconds.

That the extremes of weather we have had in the last few years is connected with a greater temperature differential between the poles and the ocean makes rational sense.

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The Sacramento and San Joaquin Valleys get numerous smaller tornadoes. F0 and F1. The area from Sacramento to Chico is supposed to have as many as any given geographic region in the Midwest. There have been three in the Sacramento Metro area this season. The big difference is size. An F0 can put a very visible funnel coming down out of a cloud but only have 60 mph winds that may not be noticed. The ones in the Midwest are larger so they get a lot of attention.

This will become one of the more notable ones due to the video documentation. One of the more notable ones in Sacramento occured in 2005 and it was unusual in that it moved from the southeast to the northwest, which was the result of a cell that occurred on the northeast side of a low.

Sacramento Tornado, 21 February 2005

Another occurred in Fresno in 1980. It tore the roof off of the air terminal at the airport, then tracked northeast doing minor damage to roofing, breaking down fences and sheds.