Flash flood warnings continue across Southern California

In the aftermath of a one-in-1,000-year rainfall event, severe storms continued to cause problems in Southern California on Feb. 6.

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00:00 Flash flood warning continues down here in Southern California. This right here

00:05 is San Juan Creek and this is actually a man-made flood control area so you can

00:09 see that it's getting the job done out here transporting all that water

00:13 out to the Pacific Ocean. We had rainfall rates of about an inch per hour

00:17 throughout the morning here as that convective plume set up right over

00:21 Southern California dumping quite a bit of rainfall about two to four inches

00:25 across the Santa Ana Mountains and so all this runoff is heading toward the

00:29 Pacific Ocean. It also prompted a tornado warning earlier near the San Diego area

00:34 just to the southeast of San Diego so pretty strong rotation with that storm

00:38 but this is training over the same area dumping about a half an inch to an inch

00:42 per hour. This is kind of the last gasp of this atmospheric river event. It is

00:46 day three so far and the last couple of days were definitely more prolific

00:51 further north up across the Los Angeles Metro including up Malibu Creek through

00:56 the Santa Monica Mountains up over a foot of rainfall and in fact rain gauge

01:01 data measured about 12.63 inches at UCLA over a 48 hour period which makes that a

01:08 one in a thousand year rainfall event and you can also even see some small

01:12 debris moving within this creek as there are some burn scars just upstream some

01:17 old burn scars at least over the Santa Ana Mountains but this is the last day

01:21 here a slight risk by the Weather Prediction Center for excessive rainfall

01:24 but these flash flood warnings do have life-threatening tags on them so

01:28 definitely turn around don't drown heed those flash flood warnings and certainly

01:32 those evacuation orders.