Tornadoes in Southern California? Apparently, anything is possible during this increasingly bizarre stretch of weather.
The National Weather Service is investigating whether a tornado touched down at San Clemente Municipal Golf Course in Orange County following powerful thunderstorms that swept through the region.
According to NBC Los Angeles , forecasters received a report around noon Thursday, October 22, suggesting that a tree had been damaged by a possible tornado.
The NWS dispatched a survey team to investigate, although the exact timing of the reported damage remains unclear.
And here’s the interesting part: meteorologists had already warned that conditions were favorable for a rare Southern California twister.
On Wednesday, NOAA’s Storm Prediction Center cautioned that “isolated severe gusts and perhaps a tornado” could occur along the Central and Southern California coastline.
Later that afternoon, the NWS San Diego office tracked a powerful thunderstorm approximately 11 miles south of San…