Tornado touched down SoCal today

[Isaac]

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The National Weather Service has issued a tornado warning for parts of Southern California as the region is being pounded by wild weather including torrential downpours.

The weather service said at 4:38 p.m. Thursday that Doppler radar was tracking a tornado moving south near Moreno Valley.

The weather service issued a tornado warning for extreme southwestern San Bernardino County and west central Riverside County.

The storm earlier triggered mudslides in Orange County canyons that burned in last fall's wildfires.

Isolated downpours -- some bringing heavy bursts of rain -- hit parts of Los Angeles and Orange Counties today, prompting the National Weather Service to issue flash flood and severe thunderstorm warnings and forcing some evacuations in Orange County.

WTF is with the weather ?! 5 days ago it was over 90, sunny and clear; now it's 60, scattered thunderstorms, and tornado watches/warnings have been issued.

[innerSpaceman]

This is the End. My Friend.


Apox on Both Your Houses, Now!

[CoasterMatt]

I can't help but hear the music from the scene when Belloq opened the Ark...

[RStar]

The weather gods have been angered by all the celebratin'!

[Mousey Girl]

Once again the weather skips Bakersfield. Although I was woken up at 2am by a small crack of thunder. It has been quiet ever since.

[3894]

And most of you have no basement. Yikes.

People in the Midwest watch the skies for a change of color. If it gets "hawky" - a yellowy sky - conditions are favorable for a tornado.

[Moonliner]

I'm sorry, but that's a clear violation of the rules.

In SoCal your worries are supposed to be drought and the ground opening up under your feet swallowing you into oblivion. Tornado's are clearly out of bounds. Someone better be ready to answer for this outrage.

[BDBopper]

Wow! Incredible.

[BarTopDancer]

I woke up at 5am after dreams of more tornadoes touching down. I hate bad dreams.

What's weird is yesterday morning I said to myself "It looks like tornado weather". Erica can vouch, when I say something about having an earthquake, we generally do. So I was a bit freaked out when one actually touched down.

And most of you have no basement. Yikes.

People in the Midwest watch the skies for a change of color. If it gets "hawky" - a yellowy sky - conditions are favorable for a tornado.

For some reason, the book Night of the Twisters has always stuck with me. They talked about the sky turning grenish. I was watching the sky to change color yesterday.

No basements. On the 2nd floor of an apartment building which is also the middle floor. No inside walled areas either. Closest thing is the half of the living room not next to the sliding glass door and bathroom. Both bacs up to the stairwell hallway. I guess that would be a safe area, since I'm on the middle floor. Safer than the bedroom at least.

Scary stuff!

[Alex]

Every single state in the country (even Alaska and Hawaii) has experienced
tornadoes.

Nobody is safe!

Just wanted to do my part to ease nerves.

[innerSpaceman]

I'm gonna hide in the refrigerator.

[sleepyjeff]

Tornados, Earthquakes, Hurricanes.......childs play. Up here we have Volcanoes:)

[Capt Jack]

those have been popping too. be wary

[Snowflake]

Eek! I did one tornado in VA and feel I reached my lifetime quotient with that one. The damage to the property was incredible (ancient a huge oaks down). Fortunately, it was late at night and I was too stupid to realize that thing that sounded like a train roaring past the house I was in was a tornado.

[JWBear]

"The wind began to switch, the house to pitch
And suddenly the hinges started to unhitch."

[Mousey Girl]

We now have sprinkles and I could have sworn I saw a lightning flash. I work in a metal building (warehouse) and I love listening to the rain on the roof.

[wendybeth]

Tornados, Earthquakes, Hurricanes.......childs play. Up here we have Volcanoes:)

And tornadoes and earthquakes- just smaller ones, thus far...... My old salon got a direct hit by a tornado about 11 years ago- it was smallish, but still scary. Then about 7 years ago we started having earthquakes- there was a swarm of them over a one year period, but I think the worst was around 4.5. Still, weird- and loud, as we have a crapload of vocanic rock up here and it sounded like dynamite blowing when it split apart. Today was kind of unusual- we had a really strong wind blowing from the east (which almost never happens, as we tend to get our wind from the Pacific Ocean/Cascades range). I had a few clients commenting that it felt like the weather we had during the last tornado, so we were on the lookout all day.

[sleepyjeff]

And tornadoes and earthquakes- just smaller ones, thus far...... My old salon got a direct hit by a tornado about 11 years ago- it was smallish, but still scary. Then about 7 years ago we started having earthquakes- there was a swarm of them over a one year period, but I think the worst was around 4.5. Still, weird- and loud, as we have a crapload of vocanic rock up here and it sounded like dynamite blowing when it split apart. Today was kind of unusual- we had a really strong wind blowing from the east (which almost never happens, as we tend to get our wind from the Pacific Ocean/Cascades range). I had a few clients commenting that it felt like the weather we had during the last tornado, so we were on the lookout all day.


Was that in early July of 98'? I remember being on Priest Lake that year trying to get my boat out of the water when a tornado warning was issued:eek:

[RStar]

About a month after I moved into a mobile home in Anaheim (Euclid and Katella) a tornado hit us, ripping the awnings off a few of them. I remember that "train" sound quite clearly. I still think tornados are attracted to mobile homes. Oh, and I moved into a real house. Screw mobile homes.....

[wendybeth]

Was that in early July of 98'? I remember being on Priest Lake that year trying to get my boat out of the water when a tornado warning was issued:eek:

No, this was the year before, but I know of when you speak. The EBS warning came on in the middle of a kick ass storm, and they warned anyone near north Spokane/Stevens county to head to their basements. There were sightings of funnel clouds near our house, but they didn't cause any damage. I can't imagine being out on Priest lake during that- it was a wild storm!

[sleepyjeff]

No, this was the year before, but I know of when you speak. The EBS warning came on in the middle of a kick ass storm, and they warned anyone near north Spokane/Stevens county to head to their basements. There were sightings of funnel clouds near our house, but they didn't cause any damage. I can't imagine being out on Priest lake during that- it was a wild storm!

There was a line of boats at the ramp when the worse hit. When my turn came instead of lining the boat up carefully with the trailer and then using the trailer rope to pull the boat up I just gunned the engine and drove the boat right up onto the trailer...scuffed up my boat a little but I am sure those behind me appreciated my haste.

[tracilicious]

Now I want to watch Twister again.

[wendybeth]

Trust me- playing Twister is much funner.

[MouseWife]

About a month after I moved into a mobile home in Anaheim (Euclid and Katella) a tornado hit us, ripping the awnings off a few of them. I remember that "train" sound quite clearly. I still think tornados are attracted to mobile homes. Oh, and I moved into a real house. Screw mobile homes.....

Seriously, what is up with that? You see such devastation of mobile home parks.....