A quick-moving cold front came through California on January 31, bringing widespread rain and high winds. A narrow cold frontal rainband (NCFR) developed during the afternoon and evening commute, with moderate to heavy rain across the region as a result.
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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.
A quick-moving cold front came through California on January 31, bringing widespread rain and high winds. A narrow cold frontal rainband (NCFR) developed during the afternoon and evening commute, with moderate to heavy rain across the region as a result. Impacts and post-frontal showers continued through February 1.
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 31, 4:11 AM PST, 3 hours 52 minutes earlier.
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</html>The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
14 flood, 1 strong wind. Local standard time, as filed.
A tree fell onto a house, vehicle, and power lines in Saratoga, trapping one person inside the vehicle, who was taken to a hospital with non-life threatening injuries.
Several vehicles hydroplaned in 8-10 inches of water on Northbound US Highway 101 at the Terra Linda Truck Scales.
Lucas Valley Road under US Highway 101 was flooded.
The onramp from El Monte Road to northbound Interstate 280 and some of the interstate lanes were flooded.
Standing water was reported in the slow lane on California Route 221 at California Route 29.
Three inches of water blocked the number 1 lane of WB Interstate 80 at Buchanan. Six inches of water blocked the onramp to WB Interstate 80 at Buchanan.
One foot of water was over the ramp at the intersection of San Jose Avenue and Monterey Boulevard.
A vehicle was extracted from flood waters at Muir Drive and Skyline Highway.
Flooding was reported on southbound Interstate 280 north of California Highway 87 and on the ramp to Highway 87.
A water rescue occurred on Mark West Station Road at Starr Road.
Three inches of water were reported between both lanes of the southbound US Highway 101/westbound California Highway 156 transition.
A car was stuck in flood waters on the intersection at Russell Road and North Main Street.
Three feet of water was reported at the intersection between Old Stage Road and Zabala Road.
Alisal Road was closed from the Salinas city limits to Zabala Road due to flooding.
A vehicle was stuck in water at Hartnell Road at Alisal Road.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in California in 2024Every state in 2024This day in weather historyWarnings in California, January 2024
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 2026-09-30. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 1154885, 1154886, 1154887, 1154888, 1154889, 1154890, 1154891, 1154892, 1154893, 1154897, 1154894, 1154895, 1154896, 1154898, 1154899.