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Two Southern California communities suffered damage as a result of rare tornadoes touching down in the region.
The first tornado struck the Santa Barbara County community of Carpinteria Tuesday night, while the second hit Montebello in Los Angeles County Wednesday morning.
“At any place, in particular California, a tornado is very highly unusual. However, if we look over a broader area of Southern California or California in general, we do tend to see a number of tornadoes occur, really, each year, especially in the winter and early springtime, when strong Pacific storm systems move onshore and create favorable conditions,” said Ariel Cohen, meteorologist in charge at NWS Los Angeles/Oxnard.
In Carpinteria, the twister reached estimated peak wind speeds of 75 mph and damaged around 25 mobile homes. The Montebello tornado damaged 17 buildings and left one person with minor injuries; the National Weather Service was still working to determine the scale of the twister Wednesday night.