The train remained upright and nobody was injured, Amtrak and fire officials said.įive deaths were attributed to the storm. Three barges got loose and damaged a bridge.Īn Amtrak commuter train carrying 55 passengers struck a downed tree and derailed near the East Bay village of Porta Costa. Ferry service was disrupted because conditions were too rough.
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Windows were blown out from two San Francisco high-rises, NBC Bay Area reported. stands out,” the Bay Area weather office wrote. Even by the standards of what has turned out to be one of our most extraordinary winter seasons in a very long time, yesterday. The wind and rain mayhem from San Francisco Bay south to Monterey Bay on Tuesday was caused by an extraordinary drop in barometric pressure over the eastern Pacific that meteorologists described as “explosive cyclogenesis.” On Tuesday, some residents of north-central Arizona were told to prepare to evacuate because of rising water levels in rivers and basins. The storm was tapering off in California from north to south while pushing inland across the Southwest, the Four Corners region and the central and southern Rockies, the National Weather Service said. The warning was later canceled and the Ventura County Sheriff’s Office tweeted there was no evidence a tornado touched down. The last time the weather service's Los Angeles office sent out tornado assessment teams was 2016 near Fillmore in Ventura County, where it was determined that a small twister had touched down, Schoenfeld said.Ī tornado warning based on radar also was issued Tuesday night for the Point Mugu area west of Malibu. That tornado was measured at a relatively weak EF0, with winds of 65 mph to 80 mph (105 kph to 129 kph). The weather service also sent assessment teams to the Santa Barbara County city of Carpinteria, where it confirmed that a tornado hit a mobile home park on Tuesday, with gusts up to 75 mph (120 kph) that damaged about 25 residences. An on-duty San Francisco police sergeant was hospitalized with life threatening injuries after a tree fell on him Tuesday, the department said. Two people died Tuesday as the storm raked the San Francisco Bay Area with powerful gusts and downpours. The rare and violent weather came amid a strong late-season Pacific storm that brought damaging winds and more rain and snow to saturated California. Inspectors checked 17 buildings in the area, and 11 of them were red-tagged as uninhabitable, according to the fire department.
“Earthquakes - we're used to that.”ĭebris was spread over more than one city block. Never seen anything like this,” Turner said. He said his polyester fiber business, Turner Fiberfill, could be closed for months. Nobody was hurt, but the gas line was severed, fire sprinklers broke, all the skylights shattered and a 5,000-square-foot (465-square-meter) section of roof was “just gone,” Turner said. Then when the dust settled, the place was just a mess.” “The whole factory became a big dustbowl for a minute. Things were flying all over the place,” Turner said. When the lights started flickering, he went outside to find his employees gazing up at the ominous sky. Michael Turner could hear the winds get stronger from inside his office at the 33,000-square-foot (3,065-square-meter) warehouse he owns just south of downtown Montebello. He didn't know the severity of the injury. One person was injured and was taken to a hospital in Montebello, said Alex Gillman, a city spokesman. “It's definitely not something that's common for the region,” said meteorologist Rose Schoenfeld with the weather service. That made it the strongest tornado to hit the Los Angeles metropolitan area since March 1983, the weather service said. The weather service later said that the tornado was an EF1, a measurement on the Enhanced Fujita Scale that indicates it had winds of 86 mph to 110 mph (138 kph to 177 kph).
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