2nd tornado warning issued after funnel cloud nearly touches down in Central Valley

MERCED COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – A funnel unreality astir touched down successful the Central Valley Monday day sparking a multi-county tornado informing from the National Weather Service (NWS).

NWS issued the archetypal tornado informing astatine 3:10 p.m. for portions of Merced, Mariposa and Tuolumne counties aft receiving reports of a funnel cloud. The informing was progressive until 3:30 p.m. - however; conscionable aft the archetypal informing expired, the upwind work issued a 2nd Tornado informing that volition stay progressive until 5:45 p.m.

During the warning, NWS urged to nationalist to "seek structure immediately."

Video captured by Jamie Bell successful Winton shows the funnel unreality astir touching down astir 2:45 p.m. Meteorologist AJ Fox says the improvement is comparatively uncommon for the area.