Four tornadoes touched down across Northern California on Monday, and nearly tied a single-day record dating to 1996, the National Weather Service said.
A fifth tornado, which was?believed?to have occurred, was ruled out by the weather service late Tuesday.
Thunderstorms were expected again Tuesday and Wednesday as part of the first series of storms of the season, but they were not expected to produce the same dangerous turbulence.
On Tuesday,?a survey team from the National Weather Service determined that one of those tornadoes caused damage in Elk Grove on Monday, said Dan Keeton, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Sacramento.
"We followed the path over here and we've come and we've seen a lot of roof damage in this area," Keeton told KCRA 3 on Tuesday.
Keeton said his team observed, "some trees down, some fairly large trees snapped over and the way the debris is lined up on the ground, it's indicating to us it's a rotating storm,"
"We're estimating the winds that did this kind of damage were between 90 and 100 miles per hour," Keeton told KCRA 3.
Photos: Weather service confirms Elk Grove tornado
There is a chance of showers and thunderstorms in the Central Valley through Wednesday before things dry out Thursday. A winter weather advisory was in effect for Tuesday night in the Sierra Nevada, with up to seven more inches of snow expected. Snow showers on Wednesday might add another two inches
In a preliminary report issued on Monday, the National Weather Service said tornadoes were reported south of Yuba City in Sutter County, near Palermo in Butte County, near Browns Valley in Yuba County, at Higgins Corner in Nevada County and south of Elk Grove.
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