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Flash Flood Warning 59, NWS Los Angeles, CA

December 25, 2025Santa Barbara County, California

NWS Los Angeles, CA issued this flash flood warning at Dec 25, 2025, 1:28 PM PST for Santa Barbara County, California. It was in force for 12 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Dec 25, 2025, 1:28 PM PST (21:28 UTC)
Expired: Dec 26, 2025, 1:36 AM PST
In force: 12 hr
Issued by: NWS Los Angeles, CA
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

County Santa Barbara County, CA

The radar

The Vandenberg AFB radar (KVBX), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:32 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this flash flood warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Los Angeles, CA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at Dec 24, 3:56 PM PST, 21 hours 32 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Dec 24, 3:56 PM PST, 21 hours 32 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Los Angeles, CA issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Dec 24, 4:24 PM PST	Special Marine Warning	LOX		2 hr
Dec 24, 5:29 PM PST	Areal Flood Advisory	LOX	Los Angeles	17 hr
Dec 24, 5:29 PM PST	Areal Flood Advisory	LOX	Los Angeles	47 min
Dec 24, 5:30 PM PST	Areal Flood Warning	LOX	Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, Ventura	15 hr
Dec 24, 5:30 PM PST	Areal Flood Advisory	LOX	Santa Barbara	17 hr
Dec 24, 5:53 PM PST	Special Weather Statement	LOX	Santa Barbara	52 min
Dec 24, 6:02 PM PST	Areal Flood Advisory	LOX	Santa Barbara	16 hr
Dec 24, 6:16 PM PST	Areal Flood Warning	LOX	Los Angeles	14 hr
Dec 24, 6:23 PM PST	Special Marine Warning	LOX		2 hr
Dec 24, 7:35 PM PST	Special Weather Statement	LOX	Santa Barbara	55 min
Dec 24, 9:32 PM PST	Areal Flood Advisory	LOX	Ventura	9 hr
Dec 24, 9:33 PM PST	Special Marine Warning	LOX		117 min
Dec 24, 9:35 PM PST	Special Weather Statement	LOX	Ventura	40 min
Dec 24, 10:33 PM PST	Special Weather Statement	LOX	Ventura	57 min
Dec 24, 10:34 PM PST	Special Marine Warning	LOX		116 min
Dec 24, 11:32 PM PST	Special Weather Statement	LOX	Ventura	28 min
Dec 24, 11:34 PM PST	Special Marine Warning	LOX		116 min
Dec 24, 11:57 PM PST	Special Weather Statement	LOX	Ventura	48 min
Dec 25, 12:28 AM PST	Special Weather Statement	LOX	Ventura	62 min
Dec 25, 12:59 AM PST	Flash Flood Warning	LOX	Santa Barbara, Ventura	4 hr
Dec 25, 1:15 AM PST	Special Weather Statement	LOX	Ventura	45 min
Dec 25, 2:04 AM PST	Flash Flood Warning	LOX	Ventura	5 hr
Dec 25, 4:31 AM PST	Special Weather Statement	LOX	Los Angeles	44 min
Dec 25, 5:21 AM PST	Special Weather Statement	LOX	Ventura	24 min
Dec 25, 5:26 AM PST	Special Weather Statement	LOX		49 min
Dec 25, 7:18 AM PST	Areal Flood Advisory	LOX	San Luis Obispo	3 hr
Dec 25, 8:45 AM PST	Special Marine Warning	LOX		30 min
Dec 25, 8:51 AM PST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LOX	Los Angeles	24 min
Dec 25, 8:53 AM PST	Flash Flood Warning	LOX	Los Angeles	82 min
Dec 25, 9:04 AM PST	Special Weather Statement	LOX	Los Angeles	26 min
Dec 25, 9:31 AM PST	Areal Flood Advisory	LOX	Los Angeles, Ventura	20 hr
Dec 25, 9:54 AM PST	Special Weather Statement	LOX	Los Angeles	36 min
Dec 25, 10:08 AM PST	Special Weather Statement	LOX	Ventura	37 min
Dec 25, 10:11 AM PST	Special Marine Warning	LOX		34 min
Dec 25, 10:19 AM PST	Areal Flood Advisory	LOX	Los Angeles	8 hr
Dec 25, 10:24 AM PST	Areal Flood Advisory	LOX	San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara	20 hr
Dec 25, 11:04 AM PST	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	LOX	Santa Barbara, Ventura	19 hr
Dec 25, 11:48 AM PST	Flash Flood Warning	LOX	Santa Barbara	13 hr
Dec 25, 12:40 PM PST	Special Weather Statement	LOX	Ventura	35 min
Dec 25, 12:41 PM PST	Special Marine Warning	LOX		49 min
Dec 25, 2:30 PM PST	Special Weather Statement	LOX	Los Angeles	30 min
Dec 25, 2:34 PM PST	Special Marine Warning	LOX		116 min
Dec 25, 2:46 PM PST	Special Weather Statement	LOX	Ventura	44 min
Dec 25, 3:03 PM PST	Special Weather Statement	LOX	Los Angeles	12 min
Dec 25, 3:08 PM PST	Special Weather Statement	LOX	Ventura	37 min
Dec 25, 3:24 PM PST	Flash Flood Warning	LOX	Ventura	15 hr
Dec 25, 3:26 PM PST	Special Weather Statement	LOX	Ventura	64 min

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Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.