During another day of bizarre weather in California, a tornado was captured on camera touching down near Los Angeles on Wednesday, as the death toll rose to five.
On March 22, a tornado that was close to downtown Los Angeles had strong gusts that pulled a teacher out of her classroom.
California Tornado Caught On Cam
A teacher at Montebello, California’s Vail High School was involved in the terrifying incident, which was recorded on mobile phone footage.
As the teacher opened the door after being informed by her students that someone had fled outside, the wind reportedly blew it wide, knocking her to the ground and sucked her away.
According to the National Weather Service, this was the fiercest twister to hit the Los Angeles metro region since 1983. The teacher only suffered minor injuries as a result of the incident.
The tornado, which had peak speeds of 110 miles per hour, caused havoc, damaging 17 buildings in a commercial business sector and an industrial warehouse.
The National Weather Service reported that it dispatched teams to evaluate the damage in Montebello and the city of Carpinteria in southern Santa Barbara County, where another probable tornado struck Tuesday.
Per the early reports, it is extremely likely that the funnel cloud saw a few miles southeasts of downtown Los Angeles was a tornado, according to weather service meteorologist Rose Schoenfeld.
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Cause Of Rare And Violent Weather
The unusually severe weather occurred during a potent late-season Pacific storm that battered California with devastating winds, additional rain, and snowfall. Tuesday’s storm, which pounded the San Francisco Bay Area with strong gusts and downpours, claimed the lives of two people.
Tuesday night, a radar-based tornado warning was also issued for the Point Mugu region, which lies west of Malibu. The Ventura County Sheriff’s Office tweeted that there was no evidence of a tornado touching down when the warning was subsequently discontinued.
According to the National Weather Service, the storm was moving inland across the Southwest, the Four Corners region, and the central and southern Rockies while tapering down in California from north to south.
Several people in north-central Arizona received notice to get ready to leave on Tuesday owing to rising water levels in rivers and basins.
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