Tsunamis and waterspouts in Southern California! Feb 27, 2010

Tsunami caused by an 8.8 quake in Chile triggered a Pacific-wide tsunami threat which included California. I decided to video this historic event from the Santa Ana River inlet at the border of Huntington Beach and Newport Beach, and soon after the action settled down, a storm rolled in and generated a waterspout offshore, and a funnel cloud just above HB immediately after the watespout dissipated.

More details in the blog tomorrow. Video will  be posted as well.

Amateur video of Huntington Beach tornado

I was able to locate reliable authentic video footage of the January 19, 2010 Huntington Beach tornado. This video was taken from a condo balcony at an intersection about 1/4 mile south of the main damage area. I verified authenticity because I was at this intersection and made a u-turn while I was doing damage survey about 30 minutes later.

 http://www.njnnetwork.com/?p=32011

Case study of the January 19, 2010 Huntington Beach, CA tornado.

Meteorologist and legendary storm chaser Jon Davies did a case study of the tornado that struck Huntington Beach, CA on Jan 19, 2010.  This is excellent reading: 

http://davieswx.blogspot.com/2010/01/tornado-setting-in-los-angeles-area.html