Flash floods bombarded Palm Springs on Saturday as a thunderstorm rolled in over the mountains, dumping more than an inch of rain on the city in an hour.

The National Weather Service issued a flash flood warning, which lasted from about 3:45 p.m. until 6:45 p.m. Palm Springs residents reported inundated streets, patios and even apartments on social media.

A Palm Springs police official said the department fielded calls about flooded roads and stuck cars from "all throughout the city." At least one rescue took place on Golf Club Drive near the Palm Canyon Wash, where a car was swept up by the water.

The worst of the storm was over by 4:30 p.m., according to Jimmy Taeger, a weather service meteorologist. He said Palm Springs International Airport saw just over an inch of rain in an hour, with other parts of the city receiving even heavier downpours.

It also rained Saturday morning. Overall, Palm Springs saw 1.19 inches of rain, a record for the day and one of the higher daily totals for early September in the city's recorded history.

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Taeger called it "pretty much just a run-of-the-mill summer thunderstorm" that dissipated before it could move further east toward other Coachella Valley cities.

"It wanted to go to Cathedral City, but then it said, 'Nope,'" he said.

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About 1,000 Southern California Edison customers lost power in south Palm Springs around 4 p.m., with electricity expected to return by 8 p.m. utility spokesperson Charlie Coleman said. Coleman said the cause of the outage wasn't immediately clear.

The storm had at least some impacts in Cathedral City, where officials said Cathedral Canyon Drive was closed at the Whitewater River Wash and would stay closed until crews could reevaluate early Sunday.

The afternoon storm wasn't the first weather event in the Coachella Valley on Saturday. Morning lightning strikes also left more than 1,000 SoCal Edison customers without power in Palm Springs, although they had their power back by the afternoon.

Thunderstorms also hit the Blythe area on Saturday, flooding two highways and forcing firefighters to rescue at least two stranded drivers. A flood warning is in effect until midnight for parts of eastern Riverside County, including Chiriaco Summit and Blythe.

Sammy Roth is a reporter for The Desert Sun. Reach him at sammy.roth@desertsun.com or on Twitter @Sammy_Roth.