It’s not over yet: SoCal storm brings flooding, possible tornado and trapped cars

The latest Southern California storm brought flooding and a tornado and trapped some cars in the snow overnight, with rain expected to continue through Saturday.

In Orange County, a possible tornado or waterspout moved ashore around 10:15 p.m. Thursday in the eastern Dana Point Harbor, a witness reported to the National Weather Service. The wind “lofted a 12-foot segment of chain link fence with privacy fabric and threw it 70 feet across parking lot,” the weather service said.

There were numerous calls of flooding in the city of Westminster, police said, where an astonishing 1.84 inches of rain fell in a single hour, between 9:30 and 10:30 p.m. Thursday, according to the National Weather Service. One gauge in Garden Grove recorded 1.5 inches over the same hour…

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