Rare Tornado Near Los Angeles Rips Building Roofs; 1 Injured
LOS ANGELES—A possible tornado touched down in a Los Angeles suburb on Wednesday, ripping pieces of roofing off a line of commercial buildings and sending the debris twisting into the sky and across a city block, injuring one person.
The National Weather Service said it sent teams to assess damage in Montebello and the southern Santa Barbara County city of Carpinteria, where it confirmed that a tornado hit a mobile home park on Tuesday, with wind gusts of up to 75 miles per hour that damaged about 25 homes.
According to preliminary information, it’s “very possible” that the apparent funnel cloud spotted a few miles southeast of downtown Los Angeles was a tornado, said meteorologist Rose Schoenfeld with the weather service….