- A tornado struck Scotts Valley, California, injuring four people
- EF1 tornado damaged power lines and flipped cars
- In the midwest, an ice storm brought chaos to Iowa and Nebraska
Tornado hits northern California; ice storm freezes midwest
A tornado struck Scotts Valley, California, on Saturday afternoon, injuring four people and flipping cars, according to local authorities. The EF1 tornado, with winds peaking at 90 mph, lasted five minutes, damaging power lines and leaving Monterey County among the hardest hit with ongoing outages.
In the Midwest, an ice storm brought chaos to Iowa and Nebraska, closing Interstate 80 and causing accidents. One crash near Arlington, Nebraska, left a 57-year-old woman dead. Upstate New York saw over 33 inches of snow, while the Sierra Nevada mountains braced for up to 3 feet.
A wind gust of 112 mph was recorded at Mammoth Mountain, south of Yosemite National Park, as snow blanketed the Lake Tahoe area.
Northern California faced further weather drama with a brief tornado warning for San Francisco earlier Saturday—its first since 2005.
This extreme weather follows last week’s tsunami advisory for Northern California after a 7.0 earthquake offshore.
Other sources
- ‘Rare’ Northern California tornado flips cars, sends several to hospital
- California town hit by rare tornado flipping cars and injuring 5 just north of Santa Cruz
- Storms across US bring heavy snow, dangerous ice and a tornado in California