At 2:16 pm today (Friday, Feb. 24, the National Weather Service in Oxnard issued a flash flood warning for large swaths of Santa Barbara, Ventura and Los Angeles counties.
The loud, impossible to ignore alert was distributed to cell phones all across the region (and outside areas of concern) via the Wireless Emergency Alert System.
The alert is in place until 10 p.m, and warns that the following locations could experience flash flooding:
Los Angeles County
- Burbank
- Griffith Park
- Universal City
- North Hollywood
- Pasadena
- Hollywood
- Downtown Los Angeles
- Van Nuys
- Beverly Hills
- Alhambra
- Mount Wilson
- Encino
- Northridge
- Santa Clarita
- Chatsworth
- Woodland Hills
- Whittier
- West Covina
- Glendora
- San Dimas
Ventura and Santa Barbara counties
- Thousand Oaks
- Simi Valley
- Santa Barbara
- Camarillo
- Lompoc
- Fillmore
- Ojai
- Montecito
- Santa Ynez
- Point Conception
- Chatsworth
- Moorpark
- Santa Paula
- Carpinteria
- Solvang
- Vandenberg Air Force Base
- Summerland
- Isla Vista
- Rincon Point
- La Conchita.
This alert includes all recent burn scars.The NWS alert says that as much as four inches of rain is expected to fall on locations below 4500 feet in the coming hours.
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