Flood in California, May 26, 1999

Name: Flood in California, May 26, 1999
Start: 1999-05-26T16:11
End: 1999-05-26T20:00
Location: California

May 26, 1999 · NWS HNX · 1 event in 1 county or zone

1 flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.

Where it happened

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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: None recorded
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.

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Event by event

1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.

Flood, Kern

When: May 26, 4:11 PM PST to 8:00 PM PST
Where: Kern County, Lake Isabella
Reported by: EMERGENCY MANAGER
Coordinates: 35.343, -118.730 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Thunderstorm activity was prevalent over the mountains of the Southern Sierra Nevada, especially in the vicinity of Lake Isabella in Kern County. A thunderstorm brought locally heavy rain to Onyx, 14 miles east of Lake Isabella, by 1526 PDT but no reports of problems. However, heavy rain in a thunderstorm at 1711 PDT brought local flooding to areas just south of the town of Lake Isabella.

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.

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The same day elsewhere

Every storm in California in 1999 Every state in 1999 This day in weather history Warnings in California, May 1999

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: 5690907.