{"id":118772,"date":"2026-01-03T14:48:23","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T14:48:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/118772\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T14:48:23","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T14:48:23","slug":"flood-watch-in-effect-beginning-friday-evening-for-a-portion-of-central-california-including-fresno-tulare-foothills-fresno-tulare-lower-sierra-mariposa-madera-foothills-mariposa-madera-lower-sier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/118772\/","title":{"rendered":"Flood Watch in Effect Beginning Friday Evening for a Portion of Central California, Including Fresno-Tulare Foothills, Fresno-Tulare Lower Sierra, Mariposa Madera Foothills, Mariposa-Madera Lower Sierra, San Joaquin River Canyon, and Yosemite Valley"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Note: Flood Watch locations are Green<\/p>\n

January 2, 2026 – National Weather Service Hanford Office officials report the following:
\nFlood Watch
\nNational Weather Service Hanford CA
\n944 AM PST Fri Jan 2 2026
\n
\nCAZ317>322-324-325-030145-
\n\/O.NEW.KHNX.FA.A.0001.260103T0600Z-260106T0000Z\/
\n\/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO\/
\nMariposa Madera Foothills-Mariposa-Madera Lower Sierra-Fresno-
\nTulare Foothills-Fresno-Tulare Lower Sierra-South End Sierra
\nFoothills-South End of the Lower Sierra-Yosemite Valley-San
\nJoaquin River Canyon-
\nIncluding the cities of Mariposa, El Portal, Auberry, Oakhurst,
\nNorth Fork, Yosemite Valley, Camp Nelson, Bass Lake, Millerton
\nLake, Coarsegold, and Fish Camp
\n944 AM PST Fri Jan 2 2026
\n
\n…FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT FROM THIS EVENING THROUGH MONDAY
\nAFTERNOON…
\n
\n* WHAT…Flooding caused by excessive rainfall is possible.
\n
\n* WHERE…A portion of central California, including the following
\n areas, Fresno-Tulare Foothills, Fresno-Tulare Lower Sierra,
\n Mariposa Madera Foothills, Mariposa-Madera Lower Sierra, San
\n Joaquin River Canyon, South End Sierra Foothills, South End of the
\n Lower Sierra and Yosemite Valley.
\n
\n* WHEN…From this evening through Monday afternoon.
\n
\n* IMPACTS…Excessive runoff may result in flooding of rivers,
\n creeks, streams, and other low-lying and flood-prone locations.
\n
\n* ADDITIONAL DETAILS…
\n – http:\/\/www.weather.gov\/safety\/flood<\/a>
\n
\nPRECAUTIONARY\/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS…
\n
\nYou should monitor later forecasts and be alert for possible Flood
\nWarnings. Those living in areas prone to flooding should be prepared
\nto take action should flooding develop. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Note: Flood Watch locations are Green January 2, 2026 – National Weather Service Hanford Office officials report the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":118773,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[62950,62944,112,114,113,62946,62945,62947,62948,62949],"class_list":{"0":"post-118772","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fresno","8":"tag-and-yosemite-valley","9":"tag-flood-watch-in-effect-beginning-friday-evening-for-a-portion-of-central-california","10":"tag-fresno","11":"tag-fresno-headlines","12":"tag-fresno-news","13":"tag-fresno-tulare-lower-sierra","14":"tag-including-fresno-tulare-foothills","15":"tag-mariposa-madera-foothills","16":"tag-mariposa-madera-lower-sierra","17":"tag-san-joaquin-river-canyon"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118772\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}