King Tides returned to the California coast in mid January coinciding with increased northwest swell. High tide at San Francisco on Monday and Tuesday the 11-12th reached just under 7 feet.
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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.
King Tides returned to the California coast in mid January coinciding with increased northwest swell. High tide at San Francisco on Monday and Tuesday the 11-12th reached just under 7 feet. The combination of these events led to minor flooding of low lying coastal areas.
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 Francisco Bay Area, CA wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jan 10, 1:23 PM PST, 19 hours 22 minutes earlier.
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</html>The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
7 coastal flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Photo showing was er intruding up staircase at San Carlos Beach in Monterey.
Photo showing flooding at the Richardson Bay Marina near Sausalito.
Flooding in Bucks Landing parking lot in las Gallinas Creek.
Photo showing water intruding into the Santa Cruz Small Craft Harbor.
Photo showing flooding at the Manzanita Park and Ride near Sausalito.
Flooding in parking lot of the Lowrie Yacht Harbor and a Mooring Rd.
Flooding on Pier 14 in San Francisco.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in California in 2021Every state in 2021This day in weather historyWarnings in California, January 2021
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 2026-10-01. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 944328, 944318, 944321, 944324, 944319, 944320, 944323.