1/21/2010 DISC: CA

[Chris Bethurum]

Recording record low altimeter settings at the airports here in SoCal. Any of you gurus have info on the pressures at the low causing all of this? It appears to be spinning just offshore Oregon and Washington.

 

[R R Smith]

All time record low for barometric pressure set in Medford Oregon also...

RECORD EVENT REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEDFORD, OR 232 PM PST WED JAN 20 2010 ...RECORD LOWEST BAROMETRIC PRESSURE SET AT MEDFORD OR... THE BAROMETRIC PRESSURE FELL TO 28.88 INCHES OF MERCURY TODAY. THIS BROKE THE PREVIOUS RECORD LOWEST BAROMETRIC PRESSUE OF 28.93 INCHES SET ON DECEMBER 12, 1995.

 

[Chris Bethurum]

29.11 this hours ATIS information at KONT. It was 29.2x a couple hours ago. This event is obviously unusual, but what is the most surprising to me is that the low pressure is as widespread as it is. NOAA or somebody flying aircraft into the center of a low like this?

 

[Jason Harris]

And there was another Santa Barbara area tornado?
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SANTA BARBARA CA 3443 11972 POSSIBLE TORNADO IN SANTA BARBARA AT HALEY ST AND BATH ST. 5 TREES DOWNED AS WELL AS POWER POLES. (LOX)
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only tornado in storm reports at SPC so far today
**and now Ventura!

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2020 VENTURA VENTURA CA 3427 11926 A SMALL EF0 TORNADO TOUCHED DOWN ON THE EAST SIDE OF VENTURA AT APPROXIMATELY 1220 PM PST ACCORDING TO EYEWITNESS ACCOUNTS. THE DAMAGE PATH WAS APPROXIMATELY 1.5 MILES (LOX)

 

[David Yoho]

And there was another Santa Barbara area tornado?
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SANTA BARBARA CA 3443 11972 POSSIBLE TORNADO IN SANTA BARBARA AT HALEY ST AND BATH ST. 5 TREES DOWNED AS WELL AS POWER POLES. (LOX)
--
only tornado in storm reports at SPC so far today
**and now Ventura!

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2020 VENTURA VENTURA CA 3427 11926 A SMALL EF0 TORNADO TOUCHED DOWN ON THE EAST SIDE OF VENTURA AT APPROXIMATELY 1220 PM PST ACCORDING TO EYEWITNESS ACCOUNTS. THE DAMAGE PATH WAS APPROXIMATELY 1.5 MILES (LOX)

Here is the link to the LOX NWS survey of the Ventura tornado:

http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/lox/scripts/headline_download.php?get=ventura_tornado_20100110.pdf