[kellyhound]

At least one person was injured after a rare tornado hit a city just southeast of Los Angeles Wednesday.

The National Weather Service confirmed the tornado “briefly touched down” in an industrial park and warehouse district in the city of Montebello and rated the tornado an EF-1 with estimated peak winds of 110 mph – the strongest tornado to hit the Los Angeles area since 1983.

The “intense microcell” damaged at least 17 buildings, 11 so severely the fire department deemed them too dangerous to use, according to a city public information officer.

Video zooms in on a mass of dark gray clouds consuming the sky and tapering down toward land.

The reported injury is considered minor, police said at a news conference.

The tornado collapsed one building’s roof, snapped a power pole, ejected an HVAC unit from the top of a building, broke skylights, damaged cars and uprooted a healthy pine tree with a 1-foot wide trunk, the weather service reported after assessing the storm damage in Montebello Wednesday.

[houseoftechno]

That's the gheyist tornado I have ever seen.

[Ferocity]

weeeeeeeeeeeak

[Dusti_]

More like a dust devil.

[WhiskeyWalailuck]

Originally Posted by kellyhound ↗

At least one person was injured after a rare tornado hit a city just southeast of Los Angeles Wednesday.

The National Weather Service confirmed the tornado “briefly touched down” in an industrial park and warehouse district in the city of Montebello and rated the tornado an EF-1 with estimated peak winds of 110 mph – the strongest tornado to hit the Los Angeles area since 1983.

The “intense microcell” damaged at least 17 buildings, 11 so severely the fire department deemed them too dangerous to use, according to a city public information officer.

Video zooms in on a mass of dark gray clouds consuming the sky and tapering down toward land.

The reported injury is considered minor, police said at a news conference.

The tornado collapsed one building’s roof, snapped a power pole, ejected an HVAC unit from the top of a building, broke skylights, damaged cars and uprooted a healthy pine tree with a 1-foot wide trunk, the weather service reported after assessing the storm damage in Montebello Wednesday.

Looks more like an intense “downburst” which often get confused or labeled as F1’s.

[whodat666]

Tornadoes and hurricanes on the West Coast. What's going on with this world?
It doesn't even take much of a hurricane or tropical storm. That city is a sitting duck along with every other city on the west coast is! too young and fertile out there. I wouldnt dare live out there I'm content in the deep South... But we're getting wildfires down here.