Flood, Redwood Coast
- When
- January 27, 3:00 PM PST to January 28, 3:00 AM PST
- Where
- Redwood Coast forecast zone
Jacoby and Freshwater Creeks flooded southeast of Arcata.
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.
The episode as NWS EKA wrote it up.
Jacoby and Freshwater Creeks flooded southeast of Arcata.
1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
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