Heavy Rain — Plumas, California

2023-09-03 to 2023-09-04 · near Portola, Plumas, California

Event narrative

A mesonet station (GW0802-Taylorsville) located 6.0 NW of Genesee, CA, a mesonet station (PIEC1-Pierce) located 5.0 mi NNW of Antelope Lake, CA, and mesonet station (QCSC1-Carman Saddle) located 4.0 mi SSW of Portola, CA, reported total rainfall amounts of 1.14, 0.89 and 0.85 inches respectively.

Wider weather episode

An upper level low over northern California yielded a cooler, wetter, and breezy pattern across the region through Labor Day weekend. Periods of light to moderate precipitation intermingled with isolated thunderstorms produced brief periods of heavy rainfall across the Sierra into northwest Nevada that caused some flash flooding and flooding concerns through the Labor weekend. Of particular concern was flooding in the playa area of the Black Rock Desert during the Burning Man festival.

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Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 1143007. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.