Multiple evacuation orders were issued yesterday around the Valley due to flooding. All schools in Sierra Unified, & Merced City School District closed Tuesday because of unsafe weather conditions. Yosemite Unified School District is also closed. There is no word on how long these closures will last. Most of the San Joaquin Valley is now under a flood watch. 

A Tornado Warning was issued for Tulare County Yesterday until 5:15 PM PST, as radar detected rotation and reports of a funnel cloud from storm watchers. A funnel cloud was spotted by Candy Hopkins at noon on Tuesday in Merced County. Hopkins, who submitted the photo to KMJ’s News Partner FXO26, 

Merced County Sheriff Vern Warnke took to social media to implore drivers not to drive through flooded roadways or pass set-up barricades... “please help us by helping yourself” 

“We have hundred-plus cars in Planada that are ruined through natural causes, by them sitting in the yard where the water came up. Or numbskulls running barricades and thinking they should be able to go through there,” said Warnke. 

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