Tornado Rips Rooftops, Downs Trees in South LA (Los Angeles!)

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Source: ABC

A tornado ripped parts of rooftops from buildings and spewed debris in South Los Angeles on Friday as a powerful fall storm walloped the region, the National Weather Service confirmed.

The small EF0 tornado touched down about 9:20 a.m. and damaged an apartment complex roof, the roofs of two homes and a steel billboard, and knocked down trees.

Video captured by a witness showed winds bending palm trees before a sudden surge of roof material and debris went flying into the air.

The twister blew through streets from South Vermont and West Gage avenues to 57th and Figueroa streets, according to the NWS.

Read more: http://abc7.com/weather/possible-tornado-touches-down-in-south-la/434798/

[bravenak]

1. Stay safe y'all!!nt

[mnhtnbb]

2. Yikes!

Was it a sharknado?

I know, I shouldn't jest. But I lived in L.A. for almost 20 years. Earthquakes, yes, but tornadoes?
No.

[Warpy]

8. They can and do occur in all 50 states.

Southern California is more likely to see waterspouts but tornadoes aren't unheard of.

The desert southwest is least likely to get tornadoes because there just isn't enough moisture to support supercell storms out here. Once our storms hop over the Rockies, though, they tend to blow up into supercells east of here.

This was an EF0. I don't think this poor guy wants to see anything stronger.

[gwheezie]

3. Wow is that common?

I live on the east coast but I don't recall much news about tornados in la

[robinlynne]

6. me neither. I live in LA.

[Brother Buzz]

7. Not common at all

But not unheard of, either. A couple of minor tornadoes causing a bit of damage are reported every year, and possibly a dozen reports of a funnel cloud touching down with no damage; our tornadoes are anemic by comparison the their cousins to the east .

[Cleita]

4. Not the first time in LA. I witnessed one in the early eighties during

the same storm that tore up the Santa Monica Pier. I was walking with a friend, a transplant from Wichita, who looking up at the sky told me one of the clouds looked like a funnel cloud except this wasn't Kansas. Later on the news it was reported that a tornado had damaged some buildings downtown.

[Gman]

5. El Niño is back.