{"id":264727,"date":"2026-04-13T00:33:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T00:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/264727\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T00:33:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T00:33:09","slug":"tornado-touches-down-in-northern-california-no-damage-reported-officials-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/264727\/","title":{"rendered":"Tornado touches down in Northern California, no damage reported, officials say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A tornado briefly touched down in Northern California Sunday afternoon as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/sacramento\/news\/northern-california-spring-storm-bay-area-sierra-sacramento\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">high winds and thunderstorms<\/a>\u00a0continued, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>The National Weather Service said the tornado happened at about 2:05 p.m. in an unpopulated area of Tehama County, located about four miles southeast of Vina. Weather officials said this area is rural grassland.<\/p>\n<p>The preliminary determination is that it was an EF-U tornado that touched down for about one minute. Officials say wind gusts, path width and length are unknown.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/vina-tornado-1.png#.png\" alt=\"vina-tornado-1.png \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  Maritza Arreola captured a video in the area of Highway 99 and Hamilton Nord Cana Highway.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                Maritza Arreola<\/p>\n<p>Officials added that there has not been any damage or injuries reported. Based on video the NWS viewed, it says no structures were impacted and that a damage survey team will not be sent to the area.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This all plays into the EF-U rating, which is when the tornado has an unknown strength. Since there is no damage to survey, officials would not be able to assign a rating, officials said. If there is damage reported, officials will further evaluate the tornado.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Radar aligned with the NWS video, which indicated a storm cell with rotation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A Tornado Warning was issued around the time the tornado touched down. Earlier this week, down in the San Joaquin County area, a Tornado Warning was issued, but there were no reports of a tornado.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>California averages about nine tornadoes a year, but they usually are rated EF-U to EF-1 and happen in the Central Valley.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A tornado briefly touched down in Northern California Sunday afternoon as high winds and thunderstorms\u00a0continued, officials said. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":264728,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[121,123,122],"class_list":{"0":"post-264727","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sacramento","8":"tag-sacramento","9":"tag-sacramento-headlines","10":"tag-sacramento-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264727\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}