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Flood — Fresno, CA

Dec 16, 2018

A cold front that was associated with a moist upper trough pushed across central California on December 17. This system brought moderate to locally heavy rainfall from Fresno County northward the late evening of December through the morning of December 17 where several stations reported a half inch to an inch and a quarter of rainfall, and there were several reports of mainly nuisance flooding during this time period. The precipitation mainly fell as snow above 6500 feet where several stations i

Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 789822). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.

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