3,441 first-hand accounts of flood events in California, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.
A third, powerful, winter storm brought significant impacts to Southwestern California. Rainfall totals ranged between 2 and 12 inches with the highest totals across southern Santa Barbara county and western Ventura county.
Read the full account →A third, powerful, winter storm brought significant impacts to Southwestern California. Rainfall totals ranged between 2 and 12 inches with the highest totals across southern Santa Barbara county and western Ventura county.
Read the full account →A third, powerful, winter storm brought significant impacts to Southwestern California. Rainfall totals ranged between 2 and 12 inches with the highest totals across southern Santa Barbara county and western Ventura county.
Read the full account →A late-season trough during the monsoon, just off the southern US coast, promoted deep southerly flow from the surface through mid levels of the troposphere.
Read the full account →An upper level low sitting off the coast of the northern Baja Peninsula promoted diffluent flow over southeast California. The moist, unstable environment combined with adequate forcing mechanisms allowed for strong to severe thunderstorms to develop.
Read the full account →A powerful winter storm impacted Central and Southern California with heavy rain and snow, gusty winds and widespread urban flooding. The heaviest rainfall totals (4-10 inches) fell across San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara counties due to the influence of an atmospheric river.
Read the full account →A powerful winter storm impacted Central and Southern California with heavy rain and snow, gusty winds and widespread urban flooding. The heaviest rainfall totals (4-10 inches) fell across San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara counties due to the influence of an atmospheric river.
Read the full account →A powerful winter storm impacted Central and Southern California with heavy rain and snow, gusty winds and widespread urban flooding. The heaviest rainfall totals (4-10 inches) fell across San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara counties due to the influence of an atmospheric river.
Read the full account →A very potent storm system brought heavy precipitation, areas of flooding and damaging winds to the area as it moved through central California between the early morning of January 27 and the morning of January 29.
Read the full account →A mesoscale convective system (organized thunderstorms) producing a dust storm (haboob) in the Imperial Valley, Salton Sea and Borrego deserts on the evening of August 10th. Visibility was reported as low as 1/2 mile to 1 mile observed.
Read the full account →A mesoscale convective system (organized thunderstorms) producing a dust storm (haboob) in the Imperial Valley, Salton Sea and Borrego deserts on the evening of August 10th. Visibility was reported as low as 1/2 mile to 1 mile observed.
Read the full account →A mesoscale convective system (organized thunderstorms) producing a dust storm (haboob) in the Imperial Valley, Salton Sea and Borrego deserts on the evening of August 10th. Visibility was reported as low as 1/2 mile to 1 mile observed.
Read the full account →A large upper level low pressure system in the Gulf of Alaska picked up an abundant amount of tropical moisture from the remains of Typhoon Namtheun on October 23.
Read the full account →A large upper level low pressure system in the Gulf of Alaska picked up an abundant amount of tropical moisture from the remains of Typhoon Namtheun on October 23.
Read the full account →A large upper level low pressure system in the Gulf of Alaska picked up an abundant amount of tropical moisture from the remains of Typhoon Namtheun on October 23.
Read the full account →A large upper level low pressure system in the Gulf of Alaska picked up an abundant amount of tropical moisture from the remains of Typhoon Namtheun on October 23.
Read the full account →A large upper level low pressure system in the Gulf of Alaska picked up an abundant amount of tropical moisture from the remains of Typhoon Namtheun on October 23.
Read the full account →A large upper level low pressure system in the Gulf of Alaska picked up an abundant amount of tropical moisture from the remains of Typhoon Namtheun on October 23.
Read the full account →A large upper level low pressure system in the Gulf of Alaska picked up an abundant amount of tropical moisture from the remains of Typhoon Namtheun on October 23.
Read the full account →A large upper level low pressure system in the Gulf of Alaska picked up an abundant amount of tropical moisture from the remains of Typhoon Namtheun on October 23.
Read the full account →A large upper level low pressure system in the Gulf of Alaska picked up an abundant amount of tropical moisture from the remains of Typhoon Namtheun on October 23.
Read the full account →A large upper level low pressure system in the Gulf of Alaska picked up an abundant amount of tropical moisture from the remains of Typhoon Namtheun on October 23.
Read the full account →A retrograding upper level low combined with highly anomalous moisture values allowed for showers and thunderstorms to develop across southeast California and produce several instances of flash flooding along with isolated damaging wind gusts.
Read the full account →A retrograding upper level low combined with highly anomalous moisture values allowed for showers and thunderstorms to develop across southeast California and produce several instances of flash flooding along with isolated damaging wind gusts.
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