The National Weather Service issued a tornado warning for Long Beach around 12:45pm, according to Casey Chel, manager of the Long Beach Disaster Management Bureau.
The storm is about 16 miles southwest of the coast of Long Beach and is headed this direction at a speed of about 15-25 mph, according to an OC Weekly blog. We will have more information on this as it develops.
“It is an advisory for us. There has been no sighting,” Chel said in a phone interview with the lbpost.com “It looks like it’s tracking south of us and we are watching it very closely.”
Chel said that it looks like the storm is aimed for Orange County – around Huntington Beach – and that Long Beach was included in the warning as the northern tip of the storm. He said that no tornado has been spotted, but that the clouds that can potentially create tornadoes have been seen off the coast.
“We’ve got no touchdowns,” he said.
Chel also said that crews have been sent out on calls of flooded conditions at local homes and businesses, which is typical with a storm of this size.
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