Flood, Redwood Coast
- When
- December 5, 11:00 AM PST to December 6, 3:00 PM PST
- Where
- Redwood Coast forecast zone
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
Flooding along Freshwater Creek, Jacoby Creek, and the Elk River.
Flood in California, December 5 to 6, 2001
1 flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Eureka, CA wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Dec 5, 8:37 AM PST, 2 hours 23 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Dec 5, 8:37 AM PST, 2 hours 23 minutes before
NORTHWEST CALIFORNIA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EUREKA CA 837 AM PST WED DEC 5 2001 STRONG ISENTROPIC LIFT/LOW LVL WAA CONTINUES THIS MORNING WITH EXIT REGION OF UPPER LEVEL JET OVERHEAD. SGNFNT RA AMOUNTS REPORTED OVNGT...WITH OVER 2 IN 12HR PERIOD AT GASQUET...1.50 AT ORLEANS AND NEARLY 2 AT LEGGETT. ELEVATIONS ABOVE 2500FT REPORTED 3-6 SN WITH TEMPS NEAR FREEZING MARK. REGIONAL RADAR MOSAIC ALONG WITH IR PICS THIS AM CONFIRM BAND OF STEADIEST PRECIP SHIFTING SE ATTM...BUT ONSHORE FLOW THRU DEEP LAYER PERSISTS. BEST 850-700MB THETA-E ADVECTION ALSO SINKS SLOWLY S THIS AFTN AS DOES MAXIMUM 850MB MOIST FLUX CONVERGENCE. EXPECT RAINFALL RATES TO DECREASE THRU AFTN...BUT NOT END ENTIRELY WITH ONSHORE FLOW THRU DEEP LAYER. SN ALSO TO TAPER OFF THIS AM...WITH SN LEVELS RISING SUBSTANTIALLY BEHIND FIRST SGNFNT BATCH OF WAA PRECIP. MODEL SOUNDINGS CONFIRM SGNFNT LOW LVL WARMING GETTING INTO NE CORNER OF UPPER TRINITY RIVER ZONE BY 00Z WED. UPPER JET ALSO MOVES ONTO THE E THRU AFTN...BEFORE ANOTHER PIECE OF ENERGY DROPS SE IN THE INCREASED NW FLOW ERY TNGT TO INCREASE RAIN AGAIN UP N. 12Z ETA ALSO INDICATES AXIS OF 50-60KT FLOW OFF I295SFC IS SHIFTING SE ATTM ALONG WITH THE LOWEST CONDENSATION PRES DEFICITS. CURRENT FCST IN GOOD SHAPE...WITH HIGH POPS FOR -RA THRU AFTN WITH LESS SGNFNT AMOUNTS...AND RISING SN LEVELS...SO NOT EXPECTING TO UPDATE ATTM. SCA TO CONTINUE ALL WATERS FOR COMBINATION OF WINDS/SEAS THRU THU. POPS CEC/EKA/ACV 99500 UKI 88400 .EKA...SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY PT ST GEORGE TO PT ARENA OUT 60NM.
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
- Blizzard in Idaho, December 5, 2001
- Strong Wind in Wisconsin, December 5, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Iowa, December 5, 2001
- Strong Wind in Wisconsin, December 5 to 6, 2001
- Blizzard and Heavy Snow in Oregon, December 5, 2001
- Winter Storm in North Dakota, December 5, 2001
- Winter Storm in Minnesota, December 5, 2001
- Heavy Snow in North Dakota, December 5, 2001
- Heavy Snow in Wyoming, December 5 to 7, 2001
- Hail in Michigan, December 5, 2001
- Heavy Snow in Idaho, December 5 to 7, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Iowa, December 5, 2001
More
Every storm in California in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in California, December 2001
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: 5275810.