Category: News Author : Duncan Riley Posted: January 19, 2010
Tags : tornado, tornado huntington beach, tornado in long beach, tornado in long beach ca, tornado warning in long beach ca, tornado watch in long beach ca, weather in long beach ca
A tornado (or tornadoes) struck coast areas around Los Angeles Tuesday afternoon (January 19,) including Long Beach, Sunset Beach,Huntington Beach and Seal Beach.
Reports are sketchy at the moment, but there is confirmation of vehicles being flipped by the tornado, and some building damage.
The image above comes from Jonathan360 on Twitpic and shows an overturned vehicle at Seal Beach.
Local media reports a confirmed sighting of a tornado touching down near Sunset Beach. Boats in the area were said to have been thrown “30 feet to 50 feet in the air.”
The storm that caused the tornado (or tornadoes) caused widespread disruption across the Los Angeles area, with the heavy rain flooding the 710 Freeway in Long Beach.
As at 3pm local time, the tornado warning had been lifted, although authorities warned residents in the area to stay indoors as the storm continued to pound the coast. A flood warning remains in effect for South Central Los Angeles.
Jan 19, 2010
Huntington Beach is in Orange County…NOT L.A.!!! Get your facts right. L.A. is 30 some miles from here. Pretty bad for a reporter
Jan 19, 2010
The car was in sunset beach…not seal….who writes this stuff?!
Jan 20, 2010
Sunset, the user who took the picture has it marked at “Seal”
Jan 20, 2010
Just high wind, doubt it was a tornado.
I live in tornado country, you don’t know what a real tornado is!
You’d have a heck of a lot more damage than a flips car. We’re talking wires and signal lights down, roofs torn off, streets full of trash, etc.
What have you got, a top-heavy SUV blown over.
Jan 21, 2010
Hey Phil…. I can tell you live in tornado country because you said “You’d have a heck of a lot more damage than a flips car” A flips car huh? Got to love the midwest farmer white trash of America! I live in Huntington Beach we see a tornado once every ten years so when there is one everyone knows about it. It was a tornado. I watched it flips some cars.