Northern California Storm Coverage: Gov. Newsom declares state of emergency, winds expected to knock out power - KCRA Sacramento

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Northern California is preparing for different beardown upwind strategy to get connected Wednesday that is expected to bring unsafe winds that down much trees and sound retired powerfulness successful the greater Sacramento country and beyond. Gov. Gavin Newsom has declared a authorities of exigency successful beforehand of the storm, Cal OES Director Nancy Ward announced. Officials warned successful a Wednesday property league that wide flooding is expected successful coastal communities and that the agrarian levee strategy is the "most vulnerable" infrastructure successful the state. | MORE | Northern California forecast: Rain, wide precocious winds, preparing for imaginable powerfulness outages Find the latest forecast and tempest updates from crossed the portion below:KCRA 3 is calling Wednesday an Alert Day owed to the beardown winds, wherever gusts are expected betwixt 40 to 50 mph.The latest terrible upwind arrives arsenic the portion continues to woody with the aftermath of the New Year’s Eve tempest that brought dense rainfall and beardown winds. The play tempest caused wide flooding crossed Northern California, knocked retired powerfulness for thousands and stranded dozens connected flooded roadways. One idiosyncratic was recovered dormant wrong a submerged conveyance adjacent Dillard Road, arsenic archetypal responders proceed to hunt for astatine slightest 1 missing person. Residents of Point Pleasant, Glanville Tract and Franklin Pond were ordered to evacuate owed to flooding connected Sunday. Evacuation orders stay successful place.In Sacramento, much than 1,000 remained without powerfulness connected Tuesday night.A spokesperson with SMUD told KCRA 3 connected Monday that the inferior volition stay successful an all-hands-on-deck presumption for Wednesday’s storm. The inferior warned that this adjacent tempest is expected to "be worse" with "multiple hours of precocious winds and gusts exceeding 50mph.""The crushed is present saturated from aggregate days of dense rains and much downed trees and poles are likely," SMUD said.| MORE | Find SMUD’s outage representation hereThe play tempest besides caused the Cosumnes River to scope its highest level successful past and brought flooding to Wilton and parts of southbound Sacramento County. The region aboriginal confirmed Sunday that determination had been a treble levee breach. County officials person issued a section authorities of exigency and said they volition beryllium collecting harm estimates. Spokesperson Kim Nava said the proclamation volition springiness the county's manager of exigency services the authorization to afloat usage each region resources and unit to assistance with the emergency.They could aboriginal question reimbursement if a authorities oregon national exigency proclamation is issued.LATEST FORECASTRain and wide precocious winds coming to Northern California connected Wednesday are prompting the KCRA 3 upwind squad to telephone for a Weather Alert Day. This volition apt beryllium the astir impactful portion of this midweek storm. The crushed is already saturated, meaning histrion roots whitethorn not person arsenic overmuch enactment erstwhile upwind comes through. This could pb to important histrion and powerfulness enactment harm and outages. Gusts are expected to scope 40 to 50 mph Wednesday evening but each of Wednesday volition beryllium breezy.Meteorologist Dirk Verdoorn says that though rainfall is simply a interest Wednesday, Northern California won’t get arsenic overmuch rainfall arsenic we received successful the strategy implicit the weekend. Winds are expected to beryllium much of a interest Wednesday. “The upwind is besides going to beryllium a large variable. That is the large crushed wherefore contiguous is an alert time due to the fact that of the imaginable for damaging winds which could beryllium racing crossed the area, particularly aboriginal connected today,” meteorologist Tamara Berg said. By 9 a.m., upwind speeds successful the country coping up retired of the southbound volition beryllium successful the 15 mph to 20 mph range. Closer to 5 p.m., winds volition person much of a wide interaction and pickup to 20 mph to 30 mph.By 10 p.m., winds volition get adjacent stronger, with gusts successful the 40 mph to 50 mph range. HERE ARE THE LATEST UPDATES:Wednesday Updates:12:03 p.m.: CHP says that concatenation controls person been lifted connected I-80 implicit Donner Summit but question is discouraged, particularly aboriginal tonight. 11:33 a.m.: Karla Nemeth, the Department of Water Resources manager for California, says agrarian levees are the astir susceptible infrastructure successful the state. "It's precise casual for smaller communities to get overwhelmed," she said. She called for radical to enactment disconnected the roads and said that "high upwind events make debris that tin exacerbate flooding." 11:24 a.m.: Here are much updates from the briefing truthful acold astir the storm. 11:09 a.m.: Gov. Gavin Newsom has declared a authorities of exigency successful beforehand of the storm, Cal OES Director Nancy Ward conscionable announced.Ward called for radical to enactment informed by signing up for region exigency alerts and to cheque connected household members and neighbors."Always travel the absorption of section authorities," she said. "If you are told to evacuate, delight bash so." 10:49 a.m.: Capt. Keith Wade with the Sacramento Fire Department joined KCRA 3 connected Wednesday greeting to explicate the quality betwixt erstwhile radical should telephone 311 versus 911. Downed trees successful a roadway oregon flooding connected roads is simply a 311 call, helium said. It shouldn’t beryllium a 911 telephone unless the histrion has crashed into a location oregon determination is simply a downed powerline. Wade besides urged radical not to thrust done h2o that is rushing crossed streets. It lone takes a ft of h2o to render a sedan incapable, helium said. “Use immoderate communal consciousness today,” helium said.7:42 a.m.: NWS Sacramento encourages those who indispensable question to bash truthful earlier dark.7:22 a.m.: SMUD advises that if a tempest knocks down a powerfulness line, presume it is energized and telephone SMUD oregon 911 immediately. 6:37 a.m.: The National Weather Service successful Reno says that snowfall levels volition beryllium rising aboriginal contiguous and past falling again overnight. Tuesday Updates:11:12 p.m.: The metropolis of Sacramento is asking radical to telephone 311 if they spot thoroughfare flooding, postulation lights that aren't working, oregon downed trees, KCRA 3's Melanie Wingo reports. 10:20 p.m.: PG&E and SMUD some expect much powerfulness outages time and are sharing tempest information tips. They include: Never interaction downed wiresUse generators safely. PG&E recommends they are installed by a licensed electrician and successful a well-ventilated area.Use flashlights, not candlesHave a backup phoneHave caller drinking h2o and iceTurn disconnected appliancesPrepare an exigency kit, including a portable compartment telephone charger, flashlight, caller drinking water, other batteries, a manual tin opener and a battery-operated radio.| Video beneath | PG&E addresses customers' agelong waits for powerfulness restoration successful San Joaquin County8:51 p.m.: KCRA 3's Josie Heart spoke to a household that faced days stuck wrong their location successful Galt aft a histrion knocked down a powerfulness rod adjacent to their property. KCRA 3's Michelle Bandur spoke to neighbors successful Sacramento's Swanston Estates vicinity wherever a monolithic conifer histrion fell but avoided powerlines. 7:42 p.m.: Here's an update from the Sacramento Fire Department. 7:16 p.m.: SMUD says it has restored powerfulness to much than 99% of customers whose lights went retired successful the New Year's Eve storm. The tempest caused much than 120 poles to beryllium blown down and uprooted astatine slightest 115 trees. SMUD besides warned that Wednesday's tempest is expected to "be worse" with "multiple hours of precocious winds and gusts exceeding 50mph." "The crushed is present saturated from aggregate days of dense rains and much downed trees and poles are likely," SMUD said. 5:26 p.m.: San Joaquin County says it volition adjacent each regional, assemblage and vicinity parks connected Wednesday successful beforehand of the storm. The closure could past done Thursday oregon potentially, Friday, too. The region said the Micke Grove Zoo and Micke Grove Regional Park had "significant flooding and upwind damage" and volition stay closed done Sunday. 5:13 p.m.: There are inactive much than 1,000 SMUD customers without power. 5:04 p.m.: The National Weather Service says upland question is "highly discouraged" tomorrow.4:55 p.m.: KCRA 3's Melanie Wingo reports that truthful acold the metropolis of Sacramento has received 200 calls astir downed trees oregon limbs. The metropolis expects to proceed to beryllium engaged done this week with reports into 311.4:16 p.m.: Stockton Unified School District says families should "use caution and let other clip portion traveling to school" connected Wednesday. 4:14 p.m.: Sacramento County is besides closing each parks owed to histrion hazards. Read more. 1:01 p.m.: All parks successful Stockton are closed owed to histrion hazards from the play tempest and forecast precocious winds Wednesday.12:42 p.m.: Chain controls person been lifted connected I-80 implicit Donner Summit, but CHP is informing of the upcoming system.7:08 a.m.: Chain controls are successful spot successful the Sierra, according to CHP TruckeeDownload our app for the latestHere is wherever you tin download our app for the latest upwind alerts.Follow our KCRA upwind squad connected societal mediaChief Meteorologist Mark Finan connected Facebook and TwitterMeteorologist Tamara Berg connected Facebook and TwitterMeteorologist Eileen Javora connected FacebookMeteorologist Dirk Verdoorn connected FacebookMeteorologist/Climate Reporter Heather Waldman connected Facebook and TwitterWatch our forecasts connected TV oregon onlineHere's wherever to find our latest video forecast. You tin besides ticker a livestream of our latest newscast here. The banner connected our website turns reddish erstwhile we're live.We're besides streaming connected the Very Local app for Roku, Apple TV oregon Amazon Fire TV.Track Northern California Doppler radar here(App users, click present to spot our interactive radar map.)Track real-time postulation updates here(App users, click present to spot our interactive postulation map.)

Northern California is preparing for another beardown upwind strategy to get connected Wednesday that is expected to bring unsafe winds that down much trees and sound retired powerfulness successful the greater Sacramento country and beyond.

Gov. Gavin Newsom has declared a authorities of exigency successful beforehand of the storm, Cal OES Director Nancy Ward announced. Officials warned successful a Wednesday property league that wide flooding is expected successful coastal communities and that the agrarian levee strategy is the "most vulnerable" infrastructure successful the state.

| MORE | Northern California forecast: Rain, wide precocious winds, preparing for imaginable powerfulness outages

Find the latest forecast and tempest updates from crossed the portion below:

KCRA 3 is calling Wednesday an Alert Day owed to the beardown winds, wherever gusts are expected betwixt 40 to 50 mph.

The latest terrible upwind arrives arsenic the portion continues to woody with the aftermath of the New Year’s Eve tempest that brought dense rainfall and beardown winds.

The play tempest caused widespread flooding crossed Northern California, knocked retired powerfulness for thousands and stranded dozens connected flooded roadways.

One idiosyncratic was found dormant wrong a submerged vehicle adjacent Dillard Road, arsenic archetypal responders proceed to hunt for astatine slightest 1 missing person.

Residents of Point Pleasant, Glanville Tract and Franklin Pond were ordered to evacuate owed to flooding connected Sunday. Evacuation orders stay successful place.

This contented is imported from Twitter. You whitethorn beryllium capable to find the aforesaid contented successful different format, oregon you whitethorn beryllium capable to find much information, astatine their web site.

Point Pleasant is present nether an evacuation order. Get retired earlier sunset truthful you aren’t trying to thrust successful the dark. Stay safe! https://t.co/SkWsCjojXs

— Sacramento County (@SacCountyCA) January 1, 2023

In Sacramento, much than 1,000 remained without powerfulness connected Tuesday night.

A spokesperson with SMUD told KCRA 3 connected Monday that the utility volition stay successful an all-hands-on-deck position for Wednesday’s storm.

The inferior warned that this adjacent tempest is expected to "be worse" with "multiple hours of precocious winds and gusts exceeding 50mph."

"The crushed is present saturated from aggregate days of dense rains and much downed trees and poles are likely," SMUD said.

| MORE | Find SMUD’s outage representation here

The play tempest besides caused the Cosumnes River to scope its highest level successful past and brought flooding to Wilton and parts of southbound Sacramento County. The region aboriginal confirmed Sunday that determination had been a double levee breach.

County officials person issued a section authorities of exigency and said they volition beryllium collecting harm estimates. Spokesperson Kim Nava said the proclamation volition springiness the county's manager of exigency services the authorization to afloat usage each region resources and unit to assistance with the emergency.

They could aboriginal question reimbursement if a authorities oregon national exigency proclamation is issued.

LATEST FORECAST

Rain and wide precocious winds coming to Northern California connected Wednesday are prompting the KCRA 3 upwind squad to telephone for a Weather Alert Day.

This volition apt beryllium the astir impactful portion of this midweek storm. The crushed is already saturated, meaning histrion roots whitethorn not person arsenic overmuch enactment erstwhile upwind comes through. This could pb to important histrion and powerfulness enactment harm and outages. Gusts are expected to scope 40 to 50 mph Wednesday evening but each of Wednesday volition beryllium breezy.

Meteorologist Dirk Verdoorn says that though rainfall is simply a interest Wednesday, Northern California won’t get arsenic overmuch rainfall arsenic we received successful the strategy implicit the weekend.

Winds are expected to beryllium much of a interest Wednesday.

“The upwind is besides going to beryllium a large variable. That is the large crushed wherefore contiguous is an alert time due to the fact that of the imaginable for damaging winds which could beryllium racing crossed the area, particularly aboriginal connected today,” meteorologist Tamara Berg said.

By 9 a.m., upwind speeds successful the country coping up retired of the southbound volition beryllium successful the 15 mph to 20 mph range.

Closer to 5 p.m., winds volition person much of a wide interaction and pickup to 20 mph to 30 mph.

By 10 p.m., winds volition get adjacent stronger, with gusts successful the 40 mph to 50 mph range.

HERE ARE THE LATEST UPDATES:

Wednesday Updates:

12:03 p.m.: CHP says that concatenation controls person been lifted connected I-80 implicit Donner Summit but question is discouraged, particularly aboriginal tonight.

11:33 a.m.: Karla Nemeth, the Department of Water Resources manager for California, says agrarian levees are the astir susceptible infrastructure successful the state.

"It's precise casual for smaller communities to get overwhelmed," she said.

She called for radical to enactment disconnected the roads and said that "high upwind events make debris that tin exacerbate flooding."

“The agrarian levee strategy is astir vulnerable” during this wintertime storm.
-Karla Nemeth, Dept. of Water Resources Director.@kcranews

— Brittany Johnson (@BJohnsonKCRA) January 4, 2023

11:24 a.m.: Here are much updates from the briefing truthful acold astir the storm.

Natural Resources Secretary Wade Crowfoot likens CA drought concern to football:

"We're inactive successful the archetypal fractional of the crippled and we person immoderate points connected the board, but we're a agelong mode however this bedewed play impacts wide drought."

— Ashley Zavala (@ZavalaA) January 4, 2023

CalTrans and CHP are asking Californians to debar non-essential question today.

— Ashley Zavala (@ZavalaA) January 4, 2023

CalTrans and CHP are asking Californians to debar non-essential question today.

— Ashley Zavala (@ZavalaA) January 4, 2023

Widespread flooding and powerfulness outages expected successful communities passim the state, according to officials.

— Brittany Johnson (@BJohnsonKCRA) January 4, 2023

Caltrans has activated 12 exigency effect centers crossed the authorities and 4K crews volition beryllium successful the field.

Caltrans urges radical to cheque QuickMaps >> https://t.co/NpNhH5dNAS

Crews volition beryllium looking for mudslides and rockslides and volition adjacent roadways if they consciousness it's unsafe.

— kcranews (@kcranews) January 4, 2023

11:09 a.m.: Gov. Gavin Newsom has declared a authorities of exigency successful beforehand of the storm, Cal OES Director Nancy Ward conscionable announced.

Ward called for radical to enactment informed by signing up for region exigency alerts and to cheque connected household members and neighbors.

"Always travel the absorption of section authorities," she said. "If you are told to evacuate, delight bash so."

The authorities operations center, wherever we are now, is present operating astatine its highest level, wherever agencies from crossed the authorities are gathered and monitoring conditions astir the timepiece to coordinate resources and response.

Gov. Newsom himself is not present but was this morning.

— Ashley Zavala (@ZavalaA) January 4, 2023

10:49 a.m.: Capt. Keith Wade with the Sacramento Fire Department joined KCRA 3 connected Wednesday greeting to explicate the quality betwixt erstwhile radical should telephone 311 versus 911.

Downed trees successful a roadway oregon flooding connected roads is simply a 311 call, helium said. It shouldn’t beryllium a 911 telephone unless the histrion has crashed into a location oregon determination is simply a downed powerline.

Wade besides urged radical not to thrust done h2o that is rushing crossed streets.

It lone takes a ft of h2o to render a sedan incapable, helium said.

“Use immoderate communal consciousness today,” helium said.

7:42 a.m.: NWS Sacramento encourages those who indispensable question to bash truthful earlier dark.

It's here! Precip travel successful 2 waves contiguous - this greeting with a little interruption successful the afternoon. Then the existent amusement begins this evening with dense rainfall, upland snowfall & VERY beardown winds. If you person to question today, it mightiness beryllium bully to beryllium to your destination earlier dark! #cawx pic.twitter.com/PiycR64Jlk

— NWS Sacramento (@NWSSacramento) January 4, 2023

7:22 a.m.: SMUD advises that if a tempest knocks down a powerfulness line, presume it is energized and telephone SMUD oregon 911 immediately.

Please beryllium safe!

If stormy upwind knocks down a powerfulness line:

📞 Stay distant and telephone SMUD astatine 1-888-456-SMUD (7683) oregon 911 immediately.

⚡️ Assume the enactment is “energized” and enactment distant and pass others to bash the same. pic.twitter.com/xbovv9cx1q

— SMUD (@SMUDUpdates) January 4, 2023

6:37 a.m.: The National Weather Service successful Reno says that snowfall levels volition beryllium rising aboriginal contiguous and past falling again overnight.

Snow levels volition beryllium rising successful the Sierra aboriginal this morning, and this day successful W NV, past falling again overnight.

— NWS Reno (@NWSReno) January 4, 2023

Tuesday Updates:

11:12 p.m.: The metropolis of Sacramento is asking radical to call 311 if they spot thoroughfare flooding, postulation lights that aren't working, oregon downed trees, KCRA 3's Melanie Wingo reports.

10:20 p.m.: PG&E and SMUD some expect much powerfulness outages time and are sharing tempest information tips. They include:

Never interaction downed wires
Use generators safely. PG&E recommends they are installed by a licensed electrician and successful a well-ventilated area.
Use flashlights, not candles
Have a backup phone
Have caller drinking h2o and ice
Turn disconnected appliances
Prepare an exigency kit, including a portable compartment telephone charger, flashlight, caller drinking water, other batteries, a manual tin opener and a battery-operated radio.

| Video beneath | PG&E addresses customers' agelong waits for powerfulness restoration successful San Joaquin County

8:51 p.m.: KCRA 3's Josie Heart spoke to a household that faced days stuck wrong their home successful Galt aft a histrion knocked down a powerfulness rod adjacent to their property.

KCRA 3's Michelle Bandur spoke to neighbors successful Sacramento's Swanston Estates vicinity wherever a monolithic conifer histrion fell but avoided powerlines.

7:42 p.m.: Here's an update from the Sacramento Fire Department.

Avoid driving during the tempest if you can. People are urged to program up and ticker for debris and localized flooding connected the roads. Never thrust oregon locomotion done flood waters. Turn around, Don’t drown!

— Sacramento Fire Department (@SacFirePIO) January 4, 2023

7:16 p.m.: SMUD says it has restored powerfulness to much than 99% of customers whose lights went retired successful the New Year's Eve storm. The tempest caused much than 120 poles to beryllium blown down and uprooted astatine slightest 115 trees.

SMUD besides warned that Wednesday's tempest is expected to "be worse" with "multiple hours of precocious winds and gusts exceeding 50mph."

"The crushed is present saturated from aggregate days of dense rains and much downed trees and poles are likely," SMUD said.

5:26 p.m.: San Joaquin County says it volition adjacent each regional, assemblage and vicinity parks connected Wednesday successful beforehand of the storm. The closure could past done Thursday oregon potentially, Friday, too.

The region said the Micke Grove Zoo and Micke Grove Regional Park had "significant flooding and upwind damage" and volition stay closed done Sunday.

5:13 p.m.: There are inactive much than 1,000 SMUD customers without power.

5:04 p.m.: The National Weather Service says upland question is "highly discouraged" tomorrow.

Heavy snowfall returns Wednesday - arsenic a beardown strategy moves done the area. Snowfall amounts up to 1-3 feet are possible. Expect concatenation controls, unsafe travel, beardown winds and periods of whiteout conditions. Mountain question is HIGHLY discouraged! #cawx pic.twitter.com/9aH8MJoA6d

— NWS Sacramento (@NWSSacramento) January 4, 2023

4:55 p.m.: KCRA 3's Melanie Wingo reports that truthful acold the metropolis of Sacramento has received 200 calls astir downed trees oregon limbs. The metropolis expects to proceed to beryllium engaged done this week with reports into 311.

4:16 p.m.: Stockton Unified School District says families should "use caution and let other clip portion traveling to school" connected Wednesday.

4:14 p.m.: Sacramento County is besides closing each parks owed to histrion hazards.