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Destructive tornadoes battered Southern California. They are more common than you might think

LOS ANGELES — Two tornadoes that caused significant damage in Los Angeles and Santa Barbara counties Tuesday were part of a series of wild weather events across California this week. But they were not as uncommon as you might think. “People feel like we don’t get tornadoes in California, but we do actually get them here,” said Carol Smith, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in ...
Cleanup crews remove a large piece of debris along Maple Avenue after a tornado with wind gusts up to 110 mph touched down in Montebello, California, for two to three minutes Tuesday.

LOS ANGELES — Two tornadoes that caused significant damage in Los Angeles and Santa Barbara counties Tuesday were part of a series of wild weather events across California this week.

But they were not as uncommon as you might think.

“People feel like we don’t get tornadoes in California, but we do actually get them here,” said Carol Smith, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Oxnard. “To get a tornado in any one spot is very rare, but to see

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