drive. These storms brought strong winds in our area. This is from Carmichael's audience. Check out Wind and Carmichael earlier today. You can see the wind so strong that you snatch a few branches from the tree. Knocked the trash can. Take a look at the shingles on the roof across the street. Oh my goodness. Float with debris. Look at that one. You can see that this is all sent to us by Jason. Great. Thank you for sending us this video. It seems we are in the middle of a hurricane or something, but no, that's just Carmichael this morning. Just download the three KCRA applications to keep it updated. Many trees, BR
Watch: Carmichael's Wind Snap Tree Branches, delivering debris to the street
Updated: 4:29 PM PDT September 2, 2025
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The audience captured the video of the branches with strong winds pulling roof shingles, spinning debris on a street in Carmichael on Tuesday. The video by viewer Jason Grate captured some of the damage from a storm, causing the power to hit a little less than 11,000 smashed customers. KCRA 3 received photos showing other trees knocked down in some communities. |Related | Viewer's video, photo capture lightning meter, wind damage in Northern California “very likely was a storm that emerged from thunderstorms, which just caused these winds and the damage we saw in these areas because these thunderstorms were just rolling at a very fast speed,” Meteorologist Dirkerk verdoorn the Carmichael damage. The National Weather Service said in a statement that it is coordinating with local officials throughout the region to determine the cause of the damage. Later, the damage was not a tornado. (Video below: Why the huge winds fell in Carmichael over the powerful wind direction of the tornado.) Tuesday's active weather in northern California also included lightning, which is believed to be the cause of the vegetation fire. See more stories about California’s top stories here | Download our app | Subscribe to our morning newsletter | Find us on YouTube and subscribe to our channel
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A viewer captured a video of the powerful wind of the moment, pulling branches on the roof shingles on Tuesday and dragging debris on a street in Carmichael on Tuesday.
Video by audience member Jason Grate captures some of the losses in the storm, which at some point eliminated power to more than 11,000 SMUD customers. KCRA 3 received photos showing other trees knocked down in some communities.
|Related|Viewer video, photo capture lightning show, wind damage in Northern California
“It's very likely that the ups and downs are coming out of the thunderstorm, which just causes these winds and the damage we see in these areas because these thunderstorms are just rolling at very rapid speeds,” said meteorologist Dirk Verdoorn of Carmichael damage.
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Wow.
Dirk and I will share our analysis of what happened later today @kcranews.
There are many factors here!
After 8pm, I will also have live weather chats on YouTube and Facebook. https://t.co/q4ujjftfw3
—Heather Waldman (@kcraheather) September 2, 2025
The National Weather Service said in a statement that it is coordinating with local officials throughout the region to determine the cause of the damage. Later, the damage was not a tornado.
(Video below: Why the strong wind folds the trees in the strong wind direction of Carmichael passing through the tornado.)
The weather in Northern California on Tuesday also included lightning, believed to be the cause of some vegetation fires.
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