Another round of heavy rain bands moved through the southern counties of Monterey and San Benito with the heaviest rain rates at 1/2 to 1 inch per hour. Mud slides are expected as well as extensive urban flooding.
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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 MTR wrote it up.
Another round of heavy rain bands moved through the southern counties of Monterey and San Benito with the heaviest rain rates at 1/2 to 1 inch per hour. Mud slides are expected as well as extensive urban flooding.
The San Francisco radar (KMUX), 115 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 14:29 UTC.
4 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Spotter report of .61 inches in one hour at Pebble Beach 0630 PST. Spotter report of .97 inches since 0400 PST 0815 PST.
Spotter report of 1/4 inch in 15 minutes 0605 PST. Spotter report of .33 inches in one hour plus street flooding.
All major rivers and most smaller streams and rivers showed moderate to sharp increases in stream flow during the warning period.
The San Benito River, the Tres Pinos Creek near Tres Pinos and the Clear Creek near Idrea all showed moderate to sharp increases in stream flow during the warning period.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in California in 1997Every state in 1997This day in weather historyWarnings in California, January 1997
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: 5623356, 5623357, 5623358, 5623359.