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The National Weather Service had already determined that a "weak" tornado touched down in Carpinteria on Tuesday. It was rated EF0 on a 0 to 5 scale and had winds of up to 75 miles per hour. The ...
March 21, 2023 – An EF0 tornado struck a trailer park in Carpinteria in Santa Barbara County, damaging 26 homes and causing one injury. [434] March 22, 2023 – A high end EF1 tornado hit Montebello in Los Angeles County, damaging 17 buildings as well as several vehicles. This was the worst tornado to hit the area since 1983. [435]
Carpinteria: Santa Barbara: CA: 00:45–00:47 0.24 mi (0.39 km) 25 yd (23 m) A likely waterspout moved onshore as a brief, weak tornado. A total of 26 homes in a mobile home park were damaged and trees suffered minor damage. One person was injured.
A high-end EF1 tornado struck Montebello on March 22, damaging 17 structures were damaged, 11 of which sustained significant damage, damaging or flipping vehicles, and snapping trees and power poles. One person was injured. This was the strongest tornado to strike the Greater Los Angeles metro area since March 1983.
The tornado was among at least 1,735 tornadoes that occurred across the country in 2024, according to SPC data. The total is more than 40% higher than the typical number of tornadoes seen in an ...
The region averages one to two tornadoes a year, but the twister that hit Montebello this week was the Los Angeles area's strongest since 1983. Destructive tornadoes are part of life in Southern ...
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The 1983 South Central Los Angeles tornado was a significant F2 tornado that occurred on the morning of March 1, 1983, in South Central Los Angeles.The tornado touched down at around 7:40 a.m. PST (UTC−08:00) near 51st Street, taking a north-northeastward path paralleling the Harbor Freeway before lifting near Olympic Boulevard at around 8:05 a.m. PST.