San Francisco sees first ever tornado warning in winter storm

A twister warning has been issued for the primary time in San Francisco, as thunderstorms swept by means of the area, toppling timber and inflicting main energy cuts.

The advisory was issued simply earlier than 06:00 native time (14:00 GMT) on Saturday for northern San Mateo County and components of downtown San Francisco.

The storm prompted energy outages for greater than 221,000 folks throughout Northern and Central California, in line with the PowerOutage website.

The town final noticed a twister in 2005, although that struck with none clear radar signature, so no warning was issued in that case, Nationwide Climate Service (NWS) meteorologist Roger Glass informed AP information company.

A couple of million residents had been woken on Saturday morning in San Francisco and its suburbs to alerts on their cell phones, warning them to “take shelter now”.

Winds of as much as 60mph (96km/h) ripped by means of the world, the NWS stated.

However a couple of minutes later, NWS Bay Space stated the warning was over and the storm had moved out of town’s downtown.

Authorities had been assessing the injury to find out if a tornado had occurred.

Close by San Mateo County was final issued a twister warning in 2011.

NWS Bay Space warned that residents ought to nonetheless avoid the seaside over the weekend, with a coastal flood advisory in place till Monday.

San Francisco’s twister alert got here only a week after town noticed its first-ever tsunami warning

The temporary advisory was issued for northern California and southern Oregon following a magnitude 7.0 earthquake that hit off the northern coast of the state.

It was later rescinded, and no accidents had been reported.