Rare tornado near Los Angeles rips building roofs; 1 injured

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

By JOHN ANTCZAK and CHRISTOPHER WEBER today

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A rare tornado touched down in a Los Angeles suburb, ripping roofs off a line of commercial buildings and sending the debris twisting into the sky and across a city block, injuring one person.

The National Weather Service sent teams to assess damage in Montebello and later confirmed that a tornado had touched down around 11:20 a.m. Wednesday.

The weather service said that the tornado was an EF1, a measurement on the Enhanced Fujita Scale that indicates it had winds of 86 mph to 110 mph (138 kph to 177 kph). That made it the strongest tornado to hit the Los Angeles metropolitan area since March 1983, the weather service said.

“It’s definitely not something that’s common for the region,” said meteorologist Rose Schoenfeld with the weather service.



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[ColinC]

1. Used to see some pretty scary looking ones while living in Lancaster (North LA County)

Of course it was all desert and usually nothing for miles they can hurt.And although they looked scary, they probably wouldn't be able to tear a roof off. But still weird.

[AllaN01Bear]

2. wasnt there 1 yesterday?

[Lucinda]

4. I think there was a smaller before -maybe in the Santa Barbera area?

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[sakabatou]

3. I've only seen a tornado forming cloud once in my area.

That was back in the 90s.

[electric_blue68]

5. Uh-oh! NYC used to be closer to LA re twisters, now we seem to get 1-2, maybe 3 often once a yr now

EF 1s Not sure we got a very brief EF2 in the late 00's.

So still on the very occasional side.

Would love we'd go back to our old 1 every 10 yrs mode!
Sigh.

[catbyte]

6. ...

[Initech]

7. Still don't think climate change is real, MAGAs?

[Emile]

8. The weather is more extreme than ever!

[C Moon]

9. We get them in So Callifornia from time to time.

Some are water spouts that move inland.
I recall a few times when the weather service announced a tornado warning.