Over 30 million people across a large swath of the U.S. are on alert for tornadoes, large hail and damaging winds. Residents in the South are bracing for large hail and tornadoes.
March 23, 2023, 1:30 PMAn aerial view of roof damage after a rare confirmed tornado touched down and ripped up building roofs in a Los Angeles suburb of Montebello, March 22, 2023.More than 30 million people across a large swath of the nation were on alert Thursday for tornados, large hail and damaging winds after a severe weather outbreak spawned by amoved east, leaving a wake of destruction from mudslides, tree-toppling gusts and the largest twister to hit the Los Angeles area in 40 years.
The L.A.-area twister, the strongest to hit the area since March 1983, was rated as an EF1, with is on the lower end of the Enhanced Fujita tornado damage scale, according to the National Weather Service. Yet the 110 mph winds the tornado generated wrecked 17 structures, including 11 that sustained significant damage, according to the National Weather Service.
"This was crazy. I mean we're used to earthquakes, but not tornados," Mike Turner, who was working in one of the damage warehouses, toldTurner said the twister ripped off an estimated 5,000 square feet of the roof of the factory he was in. A second tornado, rated an EF0, touched down in Carpinteria in Santa Barbara County, generating 75 mph winds and damaging 25 mobile homes, according to the National Weather Service.
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