In Santa Barbara, people living in at-risk areas were told to leave by 3 p.m. Wednesday. The National Weather Service in Los Angeles said on X around 5 p.m. local time that the storm was "rapidly intensifying" over Los Angeles County.

As a powerful storm slammed into Southern California, mudslides were triggered across the region, especially in the Palisades Fire and Eaton Fire burn scars. Other areas across Los Angeles and Orange County saw flash flooding.

Street flooding and mudslides, and a weak tornado, were reported across the region as the storm barreled through Thursday evening.