The strongest storm of the season is moving out of Southern California on Friday.
The heaviest rain slammed into the region Thursday night into early Friday morning, triggering flash floods and mudslides across Los Angeles, Orange and Ventura counties, as well as the Inland Empire.
Friday will have scattered showers as the rain moves out of the area, leaving residents to clean up after the storm.
Evacuation warnings have been issued for burn scar areas in the Los Angeles area ahead of what's likely to be the biggest storm of the season.
The Los Angeles Fire Department announced that evacuation warnings will take effect at 7 a.m. Thursday through at least 2 p.m. Friday. LAFD has provided a map of the areas affected.
Timelapse video shows a debris basin filling up fast in the Bailey Canyon area of Sierra Madre in the Eaton Fire burn area.
The video is taken over the span of one hour. You can see multiple surges of water and debris flowing in to that basin.
That basin doing what it was designed for - keeping that mud and debris from going any further.
A new flash flood warning has been issued in Los Angeles County for a portion that stretches from East Los Angeles to the west, Pasadena to the north, Claremont to the east and La Mirada to the south. The warning is in effect through 9 p.m.
A severe thunderstorm warning was issued by the National Weather Service for a large portion of east-central Los Angeles County.
The warning is in place until 630 p.m. Thursday.
The NWS said the storm could produce up to 70 mph wind gusts, causing considerable tree damage to mobile homes, roofs and outbuildings.
The storm has the possibility to produce a tornado and cause flash flooding, NWS said in its weather alert.
In the Eaton Fire zone, the storm dropped a lot of rain water - little more than a month too late. With a storm dumping rain over the Eaton Fire burn zone, runoff canals in Sierra Madre's Upper Canyon community are running black with muddy water.
