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I think you’re drawing the wrong conclusion from the post. There was no suggestion of tornadoes on the West Coast. It was a discussion of relatively isolated me
by jb1991 3y ago
I think you’re drawing the wrong conclusion from the post. There was no suggestion of tornadoes on the West Coast. It was a discussion of relatively isolated meteorological phenomena in the northeast corridor.
- dylan604 3y agoWhile not part of Tornado Alley, the west coast does get tornadoes. There was at least one when I lived there, and I think I heard about another within the past year (maybe two). The one when I lived there actually started as a waterspout and came across the beach near Santa Monica to be reclassified as a tornado.
- jb1991 3y agoI'm not sure how this thread got off on this tangent but I don't think there was ever any attempt to comment on whether there are or are not tornadoes on the west coast. The discussion was the lack of extreme events typical of the northeast.
- dylan604 3y agoIt's more about the details left out really. I lived in LA area for ~5 years, and 1 tornado. In one Tornado Alley storm system, you can get multiple twisters. There's of course more than one storm system per season. It's also just weird knowing that for a tornado to hit places like Santa Monica and the knowledge that tornadoes usually travel southwest to northeast, and that there is no more land west of Santa Monica, that they are going to form as waterspouts. That's just unusual for typical experience for Tornado Alley folks. Just another example of how one person's typical experience with storms can still be unusual when experience some place else. Sure, my original comment was very ambiguous about what I've just posted, but that's how the tangent worked in my mind.