A weak twister generated by the frigid winter storm that arrived Thursday in Southern California felled just a few timber on Thursday in Los Angeles County.
About 11:30 a.m., “a benign, short-lived vortex” introduced down a minimum of one tree within the southeast area of La Mirada, stated Joe Sirard, a meteorologist with the Nationwide Climate Service in Oxnard. KTLA-TV footage confirmed the place a number of timber had fallen within the path of the twister.
Weak tornadoes that aren’t robust sufficient to be categorized beneath the Enhanced Fujita Scale are additionally known as “land spouts, the land equal of a water spout,” he stated.
EF-0 is the weakest class, with wind speeds between 65 and 85 miles per hour. By comparability, the strongest class, EF-5, produces devastating wind speeds of greater than 200 mph.
These vortexes are created when a chilly, low-pressure system excessive within the ambiance creates a spin within the air lots at low ranges.
They often journey only some hundred yards and final a number of minutes, Sirard stated.
Tornadoes in La Mirada are “considerably uncommon however commonplace,” he added. “We get periodic conditions throughout our space the place atmospheric situations are conducive to weak tornadoes [over land], water spouts [over the ocean].”
There have been no reviews of accidents or obvious harm to properties, in line with KTLA.