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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.

Flash Flood

Los Angeles, CA · Feb 25, 2023

A powerful winter storm brought heavy rain, heavy snow and strong winds to Southwestern California. Rainfall totals ranged from 2 to 5 inches across coastal and valleys areas with 4 to 10 inches across the foothills and mountains.

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Flash Flood

Los Angeles, CA · Feb 24, 2023

A powerful winter storm brought heavy rain, heavy snow and strong winds to Southwestern California. Rainfall totals ranged from 2 to 5 inches across coastal and valleys areas with 4 to 10 inches across the foothills and mountains.

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Flash Flood

Los Angeles, CA · Feb 25, 2023

A powerful winter storm brought heavy rain, heavy snow and strong winds to Southwestern California. Rainfall totals ranged from 2 to 5 inches across coastal and valleys areas with 4 to 10 inches across the foothills and mountains.

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Flash Flood

Ventura, CA · Feb 24, 2023

A powerful winter storm brought heavy rain, heavy snow and strong winds to Southwestern California. Rainfall totals ranged from 2 to 5 inches across coastal and valleys areas with 4 to 10 inches across the foothills and mountains.

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Flash Flood

Los Angeles, CA · Feb 25, 2023

A powerful winter storm brought heavy rain, heavy snow and strong winds to Southwestern California. Rainfall totals ranged from 2 to 5 inches across coastal and valleys areas with 4 to 10 inches across the foothills and mountains.

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Flash Flood

San Bernardino, CA · Feb 24, 2023

An intense period of heavy snow and blizzard conditions, damaging winds, low-elevation snow and widespread flooding rainfall plagued Southern California February 21-27.||Very strong, and locally damaging, winds developed in the evening on February 21 and continued through…

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Flash Flood

Los Angeles, CA · Feb 24, 2023

A powerful winter storm brought heavy rain, heavy snow and strong winds to Southwestern California. Rainfall totals ranged from 2 to 5 inches across coastal and valleys areas with 4 to 10 inches across the foothills and mountains.

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Flash Flood

Calaveras, CA · Mar 12, 2023

A wet system brought periods of heavy rain with flooding. There was 1 to 2 feet of snow accumulated above 6,500 feet, locally higher on some peaks.

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Flash Flood

Tuolumne, CA · Mar 11, 2023

A wet system brought periods of heavy rain with flooding. There was 1 to 2 feet of snow accumulated above 6,500 feet, locally higher on some peaks.

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Flash Flood

Tuolumne, CA · Mar 11, 2023

A wet system brought periods of heavy rain with flooding. There was 1 to 2 feet of snow accumulated above 6,500 feet, locally higher on some peaks.

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Flash Flood

Fresno, CA · Mar 10, 2023

A large upper trough off the Pacific Northwest coast pulled up a deep moisture fetch from the Pacific Ocean which spread inland into central California on March 9 and 10.

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Flash Flood

Fresno, CA · Mar 12, 2023

Following the departure of the warm and moist storm which produced widespread flooding across the area on March 9 and 10, another moist system moved through central California on March 11 and 12.

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Flash Flood

Fresno, CA · Mar 10, 2023

A large upper trough off the Pacific Northwest coast pulled up a deep moisture fetch from the Pacific Ocean which spread inland into central California on March 9 and 10.

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Flash Flood

Fresno, CA · Mar 10, 2023

A large upper trough off the Pacific Northwest coast pulled up a deep moisture fetch from the Pacific Ocean which spread inland into central California on March 9 and 10.

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Flash Flood

Los Angeles, CA · Aug 20, 2023

Tropical Storm Hilary, the first tropical storm to impact Southern California in 84 years, brought heavy rain and significant flooding to Ventura and Los Angeles counties.

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Flash Flood

Ventura, CA · Aug 20, 2023

Tropical Storm Hilary, the first tropical storm to impact Southern California in 84 years, brought heavy rain and significant flooding to Ventura and Los Angeles counties.

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Flash Flood

Los Angeles, CA · Aug 20, 2023

Tropical Storm Hilary, the first tropical storm to impact Southern California in 84 years, brought heavy rain and significant flooding to Ventura and Los Angeles counties.

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Flash Flood

Los Angeles, CA · Aug 20, 2023

Tropical Storm Hilary, the first tropical storm to impact Southern California in 84 years, brought heavy rain and significant flooding to Ventura and Los Angeles counties.

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Flash Flood

Los Angeles, CA · Aug 20, 2023

Tropical Storm Hilary, the first tropical storm to impact Southern California in 84 years, brought heavy rain and significant flooding to Ventura and Los Angeles counties.

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Flash Flood

Ventura, CA · Aug 20, 2023

Tropical Storm Hilary, the first tropical storm to impact Southern California in 84 years, brought heavy rain and significant flooding to Ventura and Los Angeles counties.

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Flash Flood

Ventura, CA · Aug 20, 2023

Tropical Storm Hilary, the first tropical storm to impact Southern California in 84 years, brought heavy rain and significant flooding to Ventura and Los Angeles counties.

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Flash Flood

Los Angeles, CA · Aug 20, 2023

Tropical Storm Hilary, the first tropical storm to impact Southern California in 84 years, brought heavy rain and significant flooding to Ventura and Los Angeles counties.

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Flash Flood

Ventura, CA · Aug 20, 2023

Tropical Storm Hilary, the first tropical storm to impact Southern California in 84 years, brought heavy rain and significant flooding to Ventura and Los Angeles counties.

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Flash Flood

Ventura, CA · Aug 20, 2023

Tropical Storm Hilary, the first tropical storm to impact Southern California in 84 years, brought heavy rain and significant flooding to Ventura and Los Angeles counties.

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