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An unusually strong storm system that was linked to at least two deaths lashed Southern California with heavy rain on Saturday, bringing a risk for flash flooding and landslides and forcing evacuations in areas of Los Angeles County recently burned by wildfires.
The region has been wet since Thursday night, but the heaviest rain fell on Saturday as the storm stalled over the region, drawing moisture off the Pacific Ocean.
As of early Saturday afternoon, there were no reports of major landslides, and the rain over Los Angeles County was easing. Flood warnings in the area expired at 2 p.m., and county officials planned to lift all evacuation warnings and orders by 6 p.m. Debris flow was no longer anticipated in burn areas.
The main front of the storm had passed through the county, but forecasters warned that there was still a chance of thunderstorms through the night.
The system was continuing to dump rain in coastal areas between Orange and San Diego Counties and was spreading inland into southeastern California and southern Nevada.
The storm pulled in a band of moisture known as an atmospheric river, bringing rain to Santa Barbara and Ventura Counties overnight and spreading into Los Angeles County by Saturday morning.
By early Saturday afternoon, some locations in the mountains of Santa Barbara County had recorded more than eight inches since Thursday. Downtown Santa Barbara had received more than four inches.
As of noon, downtown Los Angeles had recorded nearly two inches of rain since Friday — more than double the average monthly total of 0.78 inch for the entire month of November.
The storm system moving through the region and a second system arriving on its heels in Northern California on Sunday have churned up seas and brought big waves to beaches.
At Garrapata State Beach along the Big Sur coastline, a father and his 5-year-old daughter were swept out on Friday by waves estimated to be between 15 to 20 feet high.
The Monterey County Sheriff’s Office confirmed that the father was later found dead and said that the child was missing.
And a 71-year-old man in Sutter County, near Sacramento, died after his vehicle was swept away by floodwaters, according to Sierra Pedley, a spokeswoman with the Sutter County Sheriff’s Office.
Todd Hall, a forecaster with the National Weather Service, said that the rate at which the rain was falling on Saturday was impressive. The burn scar from the Palisades fire received 0.5 inch of rain in 15 minutes on Saturday morning, a rate at which a debris flow could occur.
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A car crushed by a fallen tree in Altadena, Calif., on Saturday, after a powerful storm moved through the region. Credit…Philip Cheung for The New York Times
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