The 1997 California flood, also known as the New Year's Flood, was a significant natural disaster that occurred in California, United States. The flood was the result of a series of  of powerful winter storms that brought heavy rainfall to the state during late December 1996 and early January 1997. The excessive precipitation led to widespread flooding across Northern and Central California.  We use outputs from Rhoades et al. (2024), who used E3SM with a variable resolution mesh (highest refinement of 3.5 km) to simulate the event and assess the sensitivity of various flood drivers to different warming levels. The WRF-Hydro model was used to explore the hydrodyamics of the 1997 Flood, where we explored how changes in reservoir operation might reduce peak flows under the various warming levels.