Flood, Redwood Coast
- When
- December 7, 7:00 PM PST to December 10, 4:00 AM PST
- Where
- Redwood Coast forecast zone
- Property damage
- $7.0 million
Flood in California, December 7 to 10, 1996
Widespread flooding of creeks and streams in Del Norte and Humboldt Counties. 3M in damage in Ferndale when a muddy torrent flowed through downtown at 2pm on the 8th.
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $7.0 million
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 1
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
What happened
The episode as NWS EKA wrote it up.
Widespread flooding of creeks and streams in Del Norte and Humboldt Counties. More than $1.3M in damage in Ferndale when a muddy torrent flowed through downtown at 2pm on the 8th. Many road closures around Crescent City, Eureka and Arcata. All routes into NW California were cut at one time. Rainfall at the NWS in Eureka - 24 hour total 5.04 inches - new all time record. Hiouchi (7NW Crescent City) received 9.44 inches on the 8th.
Event by event
1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Flood
- Flooding that develops more slowly than a flash flood: rivers leaving their banks, or water standing over land for an extended time.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Tornado in Florida, December 7, 1996
- Heavy Snow in New Hampshire, December 7 to 8, 1996
- Winter Storm in Vermont, December 7 to 8, 1996
- Heavy Snow and High Wind in Massachusetts, December 7 to 8, 1996
- Coastal Flood in Connecticut, December 7 to 8, 1996
- Flooding in Oregon, December 7 to 10, 1996
- Heavy Snow in Connecticut, December 7 to 8, 1996
- Winter Storm in New York, December 7 to 8, 1996
- Winter Storm in Vermont, December 7 to 8, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Florida, December 7, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Florida, December 7, 1996
- Winter Storm in Maine, December 7 to 8, 1996
More
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Sources
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5583354.