California beach littered and a new flash flood warning in effect

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Storm chaser Dr. Reed Timmer was at the shores of Malibu, California, which was already littered with flood debris the morning of Feb. 6. Another flash flood warning is in effect for the area.

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00:00 Flash flood warnings are in effect this morning again in the Malibu area where

00:04 over a foot of rainfall happened in the Santa Monica Mountains just above town.

00:08 Malibu Creek is again flowing very rapidly and you can see all the flood

00:12 debris deposited on the beach here from a very flooded Malibu Creek over the

00:17 last couple of days. Now the heavy rain is focusing off to the south down near

00:21 the Oceanside area south Los Angeles Metro. New flash flood warnings have been

00:26 issued with a considerable tag down there and you can see that plume, that

00:30 plume of moisture that is coming into Southern California. The Weather

00:33 Prediction Center has a slight risk for excessive rainfall but localized

00:37 significant impacts today as the atmospheric river has weakened, settled a

00:43 little bit further south, but the individual rain echoes are moving a lot

00:46 slower and so there is heavy rain that's persisting for a lot longer and there is

00:50 up to an inch per hour rainfall rates happening within that band into the south

00:54 Los Angeles Metro already today. Day three of this significant atmospheric

00:59 river event. I've already heard of one fatality so far from this event so at

01:05 least that's good is that the people did stay off the roads for the most part as

01:09 this life-threatening flash flooding played out. It happened in the middle of

01:12 the night, the night before last, especially up in the eastern edge of the

01:16 Santa Monica Mountains. That's when a bulk of that rainfall happened but that's

01:20 also the worst timing when those flash floods happen in the middle of the night.

01:23 That's the most dangerous situation here but you can definitely see that the

01:27 heavy rain today is settling off to the south along the south side of the Los

01:31 Angeles Metro today. So certainly do heed those flash flood warnings. There is a

01:36 considerable tag on that one for life-threatening impacts down in the

01:40 south LA Metro. Definitely day three of this atmospheric river event but more

01:45 localized life-threatening impacts.

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