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Nickel-Sized Hail Reported, 'Severe Thunderstorm Warning' Issued For Riverside County

BREAKING: National Weather Service officials say to "... expect damage to roofs, siding, power lines and trees."

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MURRIETA, CA -- Dark skies, rolling thunder and sporadic rain downpowers were hitting parts of Riverside County on Tuesday afternoon, prompting the National Weather Service to issue a "severe thunderstorm warning" for the region.

Residents in Temecula and Murrieta areas have reported some power outages in the area as well. The Southern California Edison "outage map" indicated that nearly 400 people in Temecula were without power as of 3:36 p.m., in the area of Sandia Creek Drive and Rancho California Road.

Prior to that, at around 3 p.m., a large thunderstorm moved into the Temecula area, as captured in the Facebook Live video below:

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A flash flood warning has since been issued for parts of Riverside County, including Moreno Valley, Menifee and Lake Elsinore. That's in effect until 6:45 p.m.

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At 3:01 p.m., the NWS in San Diego issue the following warning:

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAN DIEGO HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... RIVERSIDE COUNTY IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA...* UNTIL 400 PM PDT*

AT 259 PM PDT, A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED OVER PERRIS, NUEVO, AND LAKEVIEW AND IS NEARLY STATIONARY.

HAZARD...60 MPH WIND GUSTS AND NICKEL SIZE HAIL.

SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED.

IMPACT...EXPECT DAMAGE TO ROOFS, SIDING,POWER LINES AND TREES.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... MORENO VALLEY, PERRIS, SAN JACINTO, WOODCREST, LAKE MATHEWS, SUN CITY, TEMESCAL VALLEY, NUEVO, AND LAKEVIEW MENIFEE AND HOMELAND.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A BUILDING.

At 3:23 p.m., the National Weather Service issued another warning, as follows:

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAN DIEGO HAS ISSUED A* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... RIVERSIDE COUNTY IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA... EAST CENTRAL ORANGE COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN CALIFORNIA...* UNTIL 415 PM PDT*

AT 322 PM PDT, A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED OVER NORTHWESTERN LAKE ELSINORE, AND IS NEARLY STATIONARY.

HAZARD...60 MPH WIND GUSTS AND NICKEL SIZE HAIL.

SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED.

IMPACT...EXPECT DAMAGE TO ROOFS, SIDING, AND TREES.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... LAKE ELSINORE, TEMESCAL VALLEY, MENIFEE, SUN CITY, LAKE MATHEWS, ORTEGA HIGHWAY, CANYON LAKE, QUAIL VALLEY, LAKELAND VILLAGE AND WINCHESTER.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A BUILDING.

Yet another warning was issued just before 4 p.m.

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAN DIEGO HAS ISSUED A* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... RIVERSIDE COUNTY IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA... EAST CENTRAL ORANGE COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN CALIFORNIA...* UNTIL 500 PM PDT*

AT 355 PM PDT, A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED OVER TEMESCAL VALLEY, MOVING NORTHWEST AT 5 MPH.

HAZARD...60 MPH WIND GUSTS AND NICKEL SIZE HAIL. SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED.

IMPACT...EXPECT DAMAGE TO ROOFS, SIDING, POWERLINES AND TREES.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... LAKE ELSINORE, TEMESCAL VALLEY, MENIFEE, SUN CITY, LAKE MATHEWS, ORTEGA HIGHWAY, CANYON LAKE, QUAIL VALLEY, LAKELAND VILLAGE AND WINCHESTER.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A BUILDING.

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