The first major El Niño storm system finished its path through Southern California on Thursday, giving officials a chance to study both the behavior of the storms and how officials responded to them.
The first tornado from this storm system touched down in South Kent, unroofing houses, blowing down barns, and uprooting and tossing trees into the air.
Overnight rain Thursday into Friday started what is the second of two storm systems sweeping through L.A. County this week and weekend.
Meanwhile, the storm system that first arrived here last Thursday was moving eastward, bringing rain and snow to parts of Colorado, Utah, Montana, the Dakotas and points further east.
The storm system hit first in Harveyville, Kan., where a tornado carved a narrow path through the community on Tuesday night, hospitalizing six people, destroying about a dozen homes and erasing the familiar outline of the Harveyville United Methodist Church, said the Rev. Dennis Irwin.
From North Carolina to New England, the coastal states were buttoned up as the big and uniquely formed storm system gained its first hold over land since killing almost 70 people in the Caribbean.
The first of three storm systems expected in the area dropped a smattering of rain Tuesday.
The first of three storm systems expected in wildfire-ravaged Butte County, Calif., dropped a smattering of rain Tuesday.
It became the second billion-dollar weather disaster of 2019, following a storm system Feb.
A second reconnaissance flight reported an intensifed tropical cyclone, indicating that the storm system had reached tropical storm strength.
