Mar 1, 2018
A large cold upper low pressure area dropped southeast from the Gulf of Alaska to off the Pacific Northwest coast by the morning of March 1. Several bands of precipitation associated with this system pushed through Central California between the morning of March 1 and the afternoon of March 3. Significant rainfall impacted much of the area during this time frame with several reporting stations in the Southern Sierra Nevada from Fresno County northward picking up more than 2 inches of rainfall wi
Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 734730). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.
This event is one of many recorded floods in Mariposa County. See the full FEMA flood zone map, NFIP claim totals, and disaster history for the area.