1 flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Every event with a place to put it; 1 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.
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 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 San Diego, CA wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Feb 26, 2:30 PM PST, 10 minutes earlier.
EXTREME SOUTHWESTERN CALIFORNIA AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN DIEGO CA
230 PM PST MON FEB 26 2001
...SYNOPSIS...
UPPER LEVEL LOW PRESSURE MOVING SLOWLY INTO BAJA CALIFORNIA WILL
CONTINUE TO BRING SHOWERS AND A SMALL CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS
TONIGHT AND TUESDAY. SNOW SHOWERS ARE EXPECTED IN THE MOUNTAINS
ABOVE 5000 FEET. ANOTHER WEAKER UPPER LEVEL LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM
COULD CAUSE SHOWERS TO LINGER INTO WEDNESDAY. THURSDAY THROUGH
SATURDAY WILL BE DRY UNDER WEAK HIGH PRESSURE. ANOTHER STORM COULD
BRING MORE SHOWERS SUNDAY.
...DISCUSSION...
SHOWERS HAVE INCREASED THIS AFTERNOON AND A COUPLE REPORTS OF
TSTORMS WITH HAIL. SNOW LEVEL STILL QUITE HIGH AND DROPPED SNOW
ADVISORY BECAUSE LARGE ACCUMULATIONS ARE NOT EXPECTED. VORT MAX
ROTATING NORTHWARD ON EAST SIDE OF UPPER LOW ABOUT TO HIT THE AREA.
THIS WILL INCREASE SHOWERS LATE THIS AFTERNOON. NO LARGE AMOUNTS
EXPECTED...BUT TSTORMS WILL DROP BRIEFLY HEAVY RAIN. SAME SITUATION
TUE AS COLDEST PART OF LOW SPINS OVERHEAD. PREFERRED AVN MODEL
DEEPENS MOISTURE AND INCREASES UVV TUE AM. BOTTOM LINE...LOTS OF
SHOWERS AND A FEW TSTORMS THROUGH TUE...BUT TOTAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS
NOT IMPRESSIVE. SOME DECREASE IN SHOWERS TUE NIGHT.
ANOTHER SHORTWAVE DROPPING OUT OF CANADA WILL SLIP INTO OUR REGION
FROM THE NORTH WED TO CONTINUE SCATTERED SHOWERS WED...MAINLY OVER
NRN AND ERN ZONES. DRIER COLUMN OF AIR AND NORTHERLY FLOW MAKE FOR
SKETCHY CHANCES OF RAIN W OF MTNS. CHANCE POPS LOOK BEST AT THIS
TIME AND COULD CONTINUE EVEN INTO EARLY THU AM IN MOUNTAINS AND NRN
DESERTS. DRY WX THU THROUGH SAT...THEN LOOKS LIKE THE NEXT STORM
ARRIVES SUN.
SAN 764
.SAN...SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...SEE LAXSPSSAN.
MMCAZ042-043-048-050-055>058-60>62-262230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN DIEGO CA 1000 AM PST MON FEB 26 2001 ...WET UNSETTLED WEATHER TO CONTINUE IN SOUTHWESTERN CALIFORNIA INTO MID WEEK... A LARGE STORM SYSTEM WILL CONTINUE SHOWERS TODAY WITH SNOW AT THE HIGHER ELEVATIONS. A SNOW ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT FOR THE MOUNTAINS OF SAN BERNARDINO AND RIVERSIDE COUNTIES ABOVE 6000 FEET. AS UPPER LEVEL LOW PRESSURE SLOWLY MOVES SOUTH OFF THE CALIFORNIA COAST...SHOWERS WILL CONTINUE OVER SOUTHWESTERN CALIFORNIA WITH A CHANCE OF SHOWERS INTO TUESDAY. ANOTHER WEAK UPPER LEVEL LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM COULD CONTINUE SHOWERS INTO WEDNESDAY. THERE WILL ALSO BE A SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS TODAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY AS COLD UNSTABLE AIR MOVES IN. ADDITIONAL RAINFALL TOTALS THROUGH WEDNESDAY SHOULD RANGE FROM ABOUT 0.50 TO 1.00 INCH WEST OF THE MOUNTAINS WITH UP TO 2.00 INCHES ON THE FOOTHILLS AND LOWER COASTAL MOUNTAIN SLOPES. THE DESERTS COULD GET ABOUT 0.25 INCH OF ADDITIONAL RAIN. LOCAL HEAVY SHOWERS COULD CAUSE FLOODING OF POORLY DRAINED LOW LYING AREAS AND OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS. THE RAIN WILL CONTINUE TO MAKE ROADS SLICK. DO NOT DRIVE THROUGH FLOODED AREAS OR AROUND BARRICADES. PEOPLE NEAR SMALL STREAMS AND RIVERS OR BELOW RECENTLY BURNED SLOPES SHOULD KEEP A CLOSE WATCH FOR SIGNS OF FLOODING OR MUDSLIDES. MM
CAZ042-043-048-050-055>058-060>062-262230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN DIEGO CA 1000 AM PST MON FEB 26 2001 ...WET UNSETTLED WEATHER TO CONTINUE IN SOUTHWESTERN CALIFORNIA INTO MID WEEK... A LARGE STORM SYSTEM WILL CONTINUE SHOWERS TODAY WITH SNOW AT THE HIGHER ELEVATIONS. A SNOW ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT FOR THE MOUNTAINS OF SAN BERNARDINO AND RIVERSIDE COUNTIES ABOVE 6000 FEET. AS UPPER LEVEL LOW PRESSURE SLOWLY MOVES SOUTH OFF THE CALIFORNIA COAST...SHOWERS WILL CONTINUE OVER SOUTHWESTERN CALIFORNIA WITH A CHANCE OF SHOWERS INTO TUESDAY. ANOTHER WEAK UPPER LEVEL LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM COULD CONTINUE SHOWERS INTO WEDNESDAY. THERE WILL ALSO BE A SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS TODAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY AS COLD UNSTABLE AIR MOVES IN. ADDITIONAL RAINFALL TOTALS THROUGH WEDNESDAY SHOULD RANGE FROM ABOUT 0.50 TO 1.00 INCH WEST OF THE MOUNTAINS WITH UP TO 2.00 INCHES ON THE FOOTHILLS AND LOWER COASTAL MOUNTAIN SLOPES. THE DESERTS COULD GET ABOUT 0.25 INCH OF ADDITIONAL RAIN. LOCAL HEAVY SHOWERS COULD CAUSE FLOODING OF POORLY DRAINED LOW LYING AREAS AND OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS. THE RAIN WILL CONTINUE TO MAKE ROADS SLICK. DO NOT DRIVE THROUGH FLOODED AREAS OR AROUND BARRICADES. PEOPLE NEAR SMALL STREAMS AND RIVERS OR BELOW RECENTLY BURNED SLOPES SHOULD KEEP A CLOSE WATCH FOR SIGNS OF FLOODING OR MUDSLIDES. MM
CAZ042-043-048-050-055>058-060>062-271200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN DIEGO CA 230 PM PST MON FEB 26 2001 ...WET UNSETTLED WEATHER TO CONTINUE IN SOUTHWESTERN CALIFORNIA THROUGH WEDNESDAY... SHOWERS WILL CONTINUE ACROSS SOUTHWESTERN CALIFORNIA AS A LARGE STORM SYSTEM MOVES SLOWLY INTO BAJA CALIFORNIA. SNOW SHOWERS ARE EXPECTED IN THE MOUNTAINS ABOVE 5000 FEET. THERE WILL ALSO BE A SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS TONIGHT AND TUESDAY AS COLD AIR ALOFT MOVES INTO THE REGION. THUNDERSTORMS CONTAIN LIGHTNING...SMALL HAIL AND BRIEF HEAVY RAIN. ADDITIONAL RAINFALL TOTALS THROUGH WEDNESDAY SHOULD 0.25 TO 0.75 OF AN INCH WEST OF THE MOUNTAINS WITH OVER AN INCH POSSIBLE IN THE MOUNTAINS. THE DESERTS COULD GET ABOUT 0.25 OF AN INCH OF ADDITIONAL RAINFALL. LOCAL HEAVY SHOWERS COULD CAUSE FLOODING OF POORLY DRAINED LOW LYING AREAS AND OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS. MM
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Heavy rain and runoff caused mud slides and street flooding across the southern end of the Inland Empire. Canyon Lake rose to within inches of overtopping Railroad Canyon Dam.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in California in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in California, February 2001
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: 5230002.