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California Flood Stories

3,441 first-hand accounts of flood events in California, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.

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Sonoma, CA · Apr 6, 2018

A late season Atmospheric River impacted the area in early April. A very moist airmass made landfall across the North Bay before moving southward across the rest of the Bay Area. The Oakland sounding measured record PWAT values of 1.69.

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Alameda, CA · Apr 6, 2018

A late season Atmospheric River impacted the area in early April. A very moist airmass made landfall across the North Bay before moving southward across the rest of the Bay Area. The Oakland sounding measured record PWAT values of 1.69.

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Flood

Sonoma, CA · Apr 6, 2018

A late season Atmospheric River impacted the area in early April. A very moist airmass made landfall across the North Bay before moving southward across the rest of the Bay Area. The Oakland sounding measured record PWAT values of 1.69.

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Flood

Sonoma, CA · Apr 6, 2018

A late season Atmospheric River impacted the area in early April. A very moist airmass made landfall across the North Bay before moving southward across the rest of the Bay Area. The Oakland sounding measured record PWAT values of 1.69.

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Flood

Sonoma, CA · Apr 6, 2018

A late season Atmospheric River impacted the area in early April. A very moist airmass made landfall across the North Bay before moving southward across the rest of the Bay Area. The Oakland sounding measured record PWAT values of 1.69.

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Flood

Sonoma, CA · Apr 6, 2018

A late season Atmospheric River impacted the area in early April. A very moist airmass made landfall across the North Bay before moving southward across the rest of the Bay Area. The Oakland sounding measured record PWAT values of 1.69.

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Flood

Sonoma, CA · Apr 6, 2018

A late season Atmospheric River impacted the area in early April. A very moist airmass made landfall across the North Bay before moving southward across the rest of the Bay Area. The Oakland sounding measured record PWAT values of 1.69.

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San Francisco, CA · Apr 7, 2018

A late season Atmospheric River impacted the area in early April. A very moist airmass made landfall across the North Bay before moving southward across the rest of the Bay Area. The Oakland sounding measured record PWAT values of 1.69.

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Alameda, CA · Apr 7, 2018

A late season Atmospheric River impacted the area in early April. A very moist airmass made landfall across the North Bay before moving southward across the rest of the Bay Area. The Oakland sounding measured record PWAT values of 1.69.

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San Mateo, CA · Apr 7, 2018

A late season Atmospheric River impacted the area in early April. A very moist airmass made landfall across the North Bay before moving southward across the rest of the Bay Area. The Oakland sounding measured record PWAT values of 1.69.

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San Mateo, CA · Apr 7, 2018

A late season Atmospheric River impacted the area in early April. A very moist airmass made landfall across the North Bay before moving southward across the rest of the Bay Area. The Oakland sounding measured record PWAT values of 1.69.

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San Mateo, CA · Apr 7, 2018

A late season Atmospheric River impacted the area in early April. A very moist airmass made landfall across the North Bay before moving southward across the rest of the Bay Area. The Oakland sounding measured record PWAT values of 1.69.

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San Francisco, CA · Apr 7, 2018

A late season Atmospheric River impacted the area in early April. A very moist airmass made landfall across the North Bay before moving southward across the rest of the Bay Area. The Oakland sounding measured record PWAT values of 1.69.

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Madera, CA · Nov 21, 2018

After a significant dry period of 45 straight dry days across most of the central California interior. A low pressure system pushed inland over northern California on November 21 and brought a period of generally light to moderate precipitation to the area from the afternoon of…

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Fresno, CA · Nov 21, 2018

After a significant dry period of 45 straight dry days across most of the central California interior. A low pressure system pushed inland over northern California on November 21 and brought a period of generally light to moderate precipitation to the area from the afternoon of…

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Mariposa, CA · Nov 21, 2018

After a significant dry period of 45 straight dry days across most of the central California interior. A low pressure system pushed inland over northern California on November 21 and brought a period of generally light to moderate precipitation to the area from the afternoon of…

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Kern, CA · Jan 9, 2018

January 2018 began with strong high pressure dominating over Central California. The high broke down by the 4th as a low pressure system pushed through Northern California bringing generally light precipitation to the area although a few locations picked up between a quarter and…

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Kern, CA · Jan 9, 2018

January 2018 began with strong high pressure dominating over Central California. The high broke down by the 4th as a low pressure system pushed through Northern California bringing generally light precipitation to the area although a few locations picked up between a quarter and…

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Kern, CA · Jan 9, 2018

January 2018 began with strong high pressure dominating over Central California. The high broke down by the 4th as a low pressure system pushed through Northern California bringing generally light precipitation to the area although a few locations picked up between a quarter and…

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San Bernardino, CA · Jan 9, 2018

A moderate strength trough of low pressure swept through the SoCal Bight with gusty winds, mountain snow and heavy rainfall. Rainfall totals of 1-2 inches occurred over the coast and valleys, with isolated amounts of 6-8 inches along favored coastal slopes.

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San Bernardino, CA · Jan 9, 2018

A moderate strength trough of low pressure swept through the SoCal Bight with gusty winds, mountain snow and heavy rainfall. Rainfall totals of 1-2 inches occurred over the coast and valleys, with isolated amounts of 6-8 inches along favored coastal slopes.

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San Bernardino, CA · Jan 9, 2018

A moderate strength trough of low pressure swept through the SoCal Bight with gusty winds, mountain snow and heavy rainfall. Rainfall totals of 1-2 inches occurred over the coast and valleys, with isolated amounts of 6-8 inches along favored coastal slopes.

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Sacramento, CA · Mar 21, 2018

Torrential rain from an atmospheric river with locally heavy convective showers brought flash flooding to portions of the northern Sierra and Motherlode foothills.

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San Bernardino, CA · Mar 22, 2018

A trough of low pressure swept in from the west. It was accompanied by a plume of subtropical moisture and a weak Pacific cold front. Moderate rain began before day break on the 22nd and continued through most of the day in the Inland Empire and along the coastal slopes.

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