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Carson River Basin

July 1960

Summer Convective Storm Event

On July 29, a summer convective storm along the eastern front of the Sierra Nevada caused flooding, and triggered an extensive mudflow out of the North Fork of King's Canyon Creek (U.S. Department of Agriculture, 1973).

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