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Flash Flood — Kings, CA

Oct 3, 2018

An upper level low pressure system dropped southward along the California coast on October 2 spreading precipitation across the Central California Interior. Most of the San Joaquin Valley received a few hundredths of an inch of rainfall while the Southern Sierra Nevada picked up a few tenths of an inch with some locally higher amounts. The low slowly tracked toward the Southern California coast on October 3 which provided for enough instability for scattered thunderstorms to break out over the a

Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 779399). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.

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