3,441 first-hand accounts of flood events in California, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.
A strong surge of moisture associated with Hurricane Hillary pushed northward into central California on August 19. This moisture surge resulted in the development of showers and thunderstorms mainly the San Joaquin Valley during the afternoon and evening hours with the most…
Read the full account →A strong surge of moisture associated with Hurricane Hillary pushed northward into central California on August 19. This moisture surge resulted in the development of showers and thunderstorms mainly the San Joaquin Valley during the afternoon and evening hours with the most…
Read the full account →A strong surge of moisture associated with Hurricane Hillary pushed northward into central California on August 19. This moisture surge resulted in the development of showers and thunderstorms mainly the San Joaquin Valley during the afternoon and evening hours with the most…
Read the full account →A strong surge of moisture associated with Hurricane Hillary pushed northward into central California on August 19. This moisture surge resulted in the development of showers and thunderstorms mainly the San Joaquin Valley during the afternoon and evening hours with the most…
Read the full account →A strong surge of moisture associated with Hurricane Hillary pushed northward into central California on August 19. This moisture surge resulted in the development of showers and thunderstorms mainly the San Joaquin Valley during the afternoon and evening hours with the most…
Read the full account →A strong surge of moisture associated with Hurricane Hillary pushed northward into central California on August 19. This moisture surge resulted in the development of showers and thunderstorms mainly the San Joaquin Valley during the afternoon and evening hours with the most…
Read the full account →A strong surge of moisture associated with Hurricane Hillary pushed northward into central California on August 19. This moisture surge resulted in the development of showers and thunderstorms mainly the San Joaquin Valley during the afternoon and evening hours with the most…
Read the full account →A strong surge of moisture associated with Hurricane Hillary pushed northward into central California on August 19. This moisture surge resulted in the development of showers and thunderstorms mainly the San Joaquin Valley during the afternoon and evening hours with the most…
Read the full account →An upper level low dropped slowly southward off the California coast on between December 19 and December 21. Moisture associated with this feature produced widespread precipitation across our area between the evening of December 19 and the morning of December 21 with most of the…
Read the full account →An upper level low dropped slowly southward off the California coast on between December 19 and December 21. Moisture associated with this feature produced widespread precipitation across our area between the evening of December 19 and the morning of December 21 with most of the…
Read the full account →An upper level low dropped slowly southward off the California coast on between December 19 and December 21. Moisture associated with this feature produced widespread precipitation across our area between the evening of December 19 and the morning of December 21 with most of the…
Read the full account →An upper level low dropped slowly southward off the California coast on between December 19 and December 21. Moisture associated with this feature produced widespread precipitation across our area between the evening of December 19 and the morning of December 21 with most of the…
Read the full account →An upper level low dropped slowly southward off the California coast on between December 19 and December 21. Moisture associated with this feature produced widespread precipitation across our area between the evening of December 19 and the morning of December 21 with most of the…
Read the full account →An upper level low dropped slowly southward off the California coast on between December 19 and December 21. Moisture associated with this feature produced widespread precipitation across our area between the evening of December 19 and the morning of December 21 with most of the…
Read the full account →Rainfall amounts reported with the afternoon thunderstorms in the Fresno County area indicated 2.2 inches of rain fell inside an hour. Similar heavy rain (0.85 inch in 1/2 hour) in the Bakersfield area of Kern County overcame the storm drain system and street flooding caused…
Read the full account →In an environment characterized by PWAT values of around 1.5 with MLCAPE values near 1000 J/KG, thunderstorm activity developed across the Mohave Desert during the early afternoon hours.
Read the full account →An approaching mid-level trough, combined with steep lapse rates, surface dewpoints in the low to mid 70s, and precipitable water values of around 2 inches helped trigger severe thunderstorms across the mountains and deserts during the afternoon and evening hours of the 30th.
Read the full account →A thunderstorm moved east across Orange County and the Inland Empire. Lightning struck a boat docked in Newport Beach, but the resulting fire was quickly extinquished.
Read the full account →One to two inches of rain and 4 to 10 inches of snow fell from a slow moving storm system. In the morning hours, mud and rock slides occurred on mountain and foothill highways before rain turned to snow, while streets flooded over the inland and desert valleys.
Read the full account →A winter storm moving southeast from the Gulf of Alaska, picked up tropical moisture before it moved onshore. The warmer air mass caused the snow level to remain high during most of the precipitaion event, so that measured snow fall was less than eight inches in the mountains.
Read the full account →A Winter Storm, brought heavy precipitation and thunderstorms with damaging winds as it moved onshore through Southwest California. In the mountains above 5500 feet elevation, 9 to 14 inches of snow fell.
Read the full account →A winter storm moving southeast from the Gulf of Alaska, picked up tropical moisture before it moved onshore. The warmer air mass caused the snow level to remain high during most of the precipitaion event, so that measured snow fall was less than eight inches in the mountains.
Read the full account →The last in a series of strong, early season storms brought record heavy rain to the coast and valleys, and dumped two feet of snow at the mountain resorts.
Read the full account →The upper-level high pressure ridge moved inland on July 11th, with a low pressure area moving to along the coast. This pattern set up a southerly wind pattern over California, drawing up monsoonal moisture from the southeast on the 12th.
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