Tornado hits LA County neighborhood overnight, knocking down trees and power lines, NWS confirms

PICO RIVERA, Calif. -- A tornado deed a Los Angeles County vicinity aboriginal Thursday morning, the National Weather Service has confirmed.

The EF0 tornado happened astir 3:15 a.m. successful a Pico Rivera, Calif. vicinity and lasted astir 2 minutes with 85 miles per hr winds, officials said.

The NWS sent a squad of six meteorologists to survey the harm that spanned crossed 4 blocks adjacent Glencannon Drive and Church Street, which included respective toppled trees and downtown powerfulness lines.

It happened arsenic a tempest brought dense rainfall and winds crossed Southern California.

"This is simply a portion of a larger Pacific tempest strategy that brought important rainfall and flooding impacts, arsenic good arsenic beardown winds to a ample information of coastal California," Ariel Cohen with the National Weather Service said during a property conference. "This enactment did spawn what we person determined to beryllium a tornado."

AIR7 was implicit the country wherever astatine slightest a twelve uprooted trees were toppled implicit onto cars and beforehand lawns, and debris strewn crossed the affected streets.

It doesn't look determination was immoderate important harm to homes, but tiles were ripped disconnected of immoderate roofs.

"They tin hap here, they tin hap anyplace successful the state astatine immoderate time," Cohen said. "...In this portion of L.A., particularly East. (and the) L.A. basin area, we bash person a comparative maximum successful the frequence of tornados that effect the region."

"This is simply a localized country of enhanced frequencies of tornadoes that really rival immoderate parts of the midwestern United States," helium said.

No injuries were reported.