A twister touched down in Kings County Saturday afternoon — the second twister in two days to hit Central California.
The twister touched down within the south finish of Corcoran round 4:37 p.m., stated meteorologist Carlos Molina with the Nationwide Climate Service’s Hanford workplace. The twister moved eastward and than dissipated by the point it received to U.S. Route 99, he stated.
The twister comes lower than a day after a funnel cloud briefly touched down within the county of Madera, about half-hour north of Fresno. ABC7 reported the twister touched down close to an elementary faculty, forcing college students to shelter within the cafeteria.
“That is the primary time I’ve ever truly noticed two tornadoes again to again,” stated Molina, noting moisture within the space from a winter storm had introduced superb situations for such an occasion.
“Normally, for Central California, we usually would get one, probably two tornadoes throughout our space between March and April,” he stated.
The back-to-back tornadoes come lower than a month after two tornadoes touched down inside a minute of one another alongside San Luis Obispo County’s coast.
Officers stated on the time they had been the primary tornadoes to hit San Luis Obispo County since 2004 and the strongest since earlier than 1950 with winds of 95 mph.
Elsewhere within the state, a blizzard pounded the Sierra Nevada on Saturday with gusts of as much as 190 mph and virtually 2 ft of snow in some locations. A 75-mile stretch of Interstate 80 was shut down and ski resorts had been power to shut amid the harmful situations.
