Includes Mariposa , Madera Counties and Yosemite National Park

January 6, 2023 - The National Weather Service Hanford Office reports a Flood Watch is in effect for most of Central California Sunday through Wednesday.

Creeks and streams are running high and could flood during prolonged periods of heavy rainfall.

Flooding may take place in poor drainage and urban areas.

Flood Watch

National Weather Service Hanford CA
123 AM PST Fri Jan 6 2023

West Side Mountains north of 198-Los Banos - Dos Palos-Merced -
Madera - Mendota-Planada - Le Grand - Snelling-Coalinga - Avenal-
West Side of Fresno and Kings Counties-Caruthers - San Joaquin -
Selma-Fresno-Clovis-West Side Mountains South of 198-Buttonwillow -
Lost Hills - I5-Delano-Wasco-Shafter-Hanford - Corcoran - Lemoore-
Visalia - Porterville - Reedley-Buena Vista-Bakersfield-Southeast
San Joaquin Valley-South End San Joaquin Valley-Mariposa Madera
Foothills-Mariposa-Madera Lower Sierra-Fresno-Tulare Foothills-
Fresno-Tulare Lower Sierra-South End Sierra Foothills-South End of
the Lower Sierra-Yosemite NP outside of the valley-Yosemite Valley-
San Joaquin River Canyon-Kaiser to Rodgers Ridge-Grant Grove Area-
Sequoia NP-South End of the Upper Sierra-Kern River Valley-Piute
Walker Basin-Tehachapi-Grapevine-Frazier Mountain Communities-Mojave
Desert Slopes-
Including the cities of Bakersfield, Lost Hills, Tehachapi, Yosemite
Valley, Giant Forest, Avenal, El Portal, Fish Camp, Oakhurst,
Lemoore, Atwater, Coarsegold, Los Banos, Lake Isabella, Tuolumne
Meadows, Sanger, Hume Lake, Fresno, Kingsburg, Hanford, Bass Lake,
McKittrick, Wawona, Shaver Lake, Grapevine, Kettleman City, Lake
Mcclure, Kerman, Arvin, Millerton Lake, Delano, Lake Wishon,
Planada, Mojave, Alpaugh, Porterville, Lamont, Grant Grove, Frazier
Park, Buttonwillow, Goshen, Madera, Parlier, San Luis Reservoir,
Merced, Selma, Lemoore Station, Corcoran, Taft, Visalia, Richgrove,
Le Grand, Shafter, Wasco, Tulare, Mariposa, Blackwells Corner,
Auberry, Huntington Lake, Camp Nelson, Lodgepole, Five Points,
Kernville, Lebec, Johnsondale, Coalinga, and North Fork
123 AM PST Fri Jan 6 2023

...FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT FROM LATE SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH LATE
TUESDAY NIGHT...

* WHAT...Flooding caused by excessive rainfall is possible.

* WHERE...A portion of central California, including the following
  areas, Bakersfield, Buena Vista, Buttonwillow - Lost Hills - I5,
  Caruthers - San Joaquin - Selma, Coalinga - Avenal,
  Delano-Wasco-Shafter, Frazier Mountain Communities, Fresno-Clovis,
  Fresno-Tulare Foothills, Fresno-Tulare Lower Sierra, Grant Grove
  Area, Grapevine, Hanford - Corcoran - Lemoore, Kaiser to Rodgers
  Ridge, Kern River Valley, Los Banos - Dos Palos, Mariposa Madera
  Foothills, Mariposa-Madera Lower Sierra, Merced - Madera -
  Mendota, Mojave Desert Slopes, Piute Walker Basin, Planada - Le
  Grand - Snelling, San Joaquin River Canyon, Sequoia NP, South End
  San Joaquin Valley, South End Sierra Foothills, South End of the
  Lower Sierra, South End of the Upper Sierra, Southeast San Joaquin
  Valley, Tehachapi, Visalia - Porterville - Reedley, West Side
  Mountains South of 198, West Side Mountains north of 198, West
  Side of Fresno and Kings Counties, Yosemite NP outside of the
  valley and Yosemite Valley.

* WHEN...From late Saturday night through late Tuesday night.

* IMPACTS...Excessive runoff may result in flooding of rivers,
  creeks, streams, and other low-lying and flood-prone locations.
  Flooding may occur in poor drainage and urban areas. Area creeks
  and streams are running high and could flood with more heavy rain.

* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
  - A couple of systems will bring rain throughout the region
    beginning late Saturday night. The first system will continue
    into Sunday and bring mainly moderate rain while possibly
    heavy at times, although flooding is possible due to
    saturated soil from recent heavy precipitation. After a brief
    break from heavy precipitation on Sunday evening, more
    widespread heavy rain associated with an atmospheric river
    may lead to flooding across the region from early Monday
    morning until early Wednesday morning.
  - http://www.weather.gov/safety/flood

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

You should monitor later forecasts and be alert for possible Flood
Warnings. Those living in areas prone to flooding should be prepared
to take action should flooding develop.