Tropical Storm Hilary reaches California after making landfall in Mexico | Oneindia News
Tropical Storm Hilary reached the US state of California after making landfall along Mexico’s Baja California coast on Sunday. Hilary is the first tropical storm to hit Southern California in 84 years, bringing flash floods, isolated tornadoes, high winds and power outages.
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00:00 Tropical storm Hillary reached the US state of California after making landfall along
00:15 Mexico's Baja California coast on Sunday.
00:19 Hillary is the first tropical storm to hit Southern California in 84 years, bringing
00:24 flash floods, isolated tornadoes, high winds and power outages.
00:29 Hillary had strengthened to a Category 4 hurricane before weakening to a tropical storm prior
00:34 to making landfall.
00:36 The storm is expected to bring heavy rainfall along its path from Sunday afternoon into
00:40 Monday morning.
00:41 While winds diminished Sunday, the storm's heavy downpours bring the risk of catastrophic
00:47 and life-threatening floods to parts of California and Nevada.
00:51 As strong rain and winds impact Southern California, Fire Department officials are pleading with
00:56 the public to heed evacuation orders and stay off the road unless they are in danger.
01:02 Large swells generated by Hillary, which can cause life-threatening surf and rip current
01:06 conditions, will affect portions of Southern California over the next two days.
01:10 In Nevada, officials remain concerned about dangerous flooding across western Mojave Desert,
01:15 which is at high risk for flash flooding.
01:18 Western states in the US that are more accustomed to dry conditions could be hit by historical
01:22 rains as Hillary will break all-time records as the wettest known tropical cyclone to douse
01:28 Nevada, Oregon and Idaho.
01:31 The US National Hurricane Center said that Hillary made landfall on the north of Mexico's
01:36 Baja California Peninsula with maximum sustained wind speed of 100 km/h.
01:42 A few hours later, the tropical storm reached California after causing heavy rains in the
01:46 Baja California Peninsula.
01:49 The NHC said tornadoes are possible in southeast California, western Arizona, southern Nevada
01:54 and far southwest Utah.
01:56 It is expected to remain a tropical storm into central Nevada early morning before dissipating.
02:02 In Mexico, the army said nearly 1,900 people have been evacuated to shelters in the Baja
02:06 California Peninsula.
02:08 The country's Navy also evacuated about 850 people from five islands in the path of Hillary.
02:13 The federal electric utility has deployed 800 workers and hundreds of locals to respond
02:19 to any outages.
02:20 In the US, California Governor Gavin Newsom has declared a state of emergency as Hillary
02:25 approaches the state.
02:27 Officials said teams are ready with food, water and other help.
02:30 The White House said US President Joe Biden was briefed on Saturday by senior staff on
02:33 preparation for the storm.
02:35 He was at a rented vacation home with his family on Lake Tahoe along the California-Nevada
02:39 border.
02:40 He advised people to take precautions and said, "I urge everyone, everyone in the path
02:44 of this storm to take precautions and listen to the guidance of state and local officials."
02:49 "All straight this way."
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