On Sunday at 5:03 a.m. the NWS Medford OR released a winter storm warning in effect until 11 p.m. The warning is for Western Siskiyou County, South Central Siskiyou County and North Central and Southeast Siskiyou County.

Southern California welcomed a surge of moisture that forecasters say could be the first in a series of early March storms, including a potential atmospheric river.

A powerful storm dropping drenching rain on flood-prone Southern California is raising concern among forecasters that it could produce a dangerous, widespread outbreak of tornadoes, damaging winds and fires along with a blizzard as it crosses the entire United States in the coming days.

The most fatalities as of Saturday morning were in Missouri, authorities said, with an estimated 11 people killed.

Violent tornadoes and high winds decimated homes, wiped out schools and toppled semitractor-trailers as a monster storm that also produced dust storms and icy conditions killed at least 33 people across the central and southern U.