1983 Los Angeles Tornado | CastBack | NBCLA

This is a look back at the 1983 tornado that swept through downtown Los Angeles March 1983. Read more here: 4.nbcla.com/a5o...
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What do you remember about the 1983 Los Angeles Tornado?

[@kaidynisbeast1987]

NBCLA I wasn’t born

[@Vincent98987]

@@kaidynisbeast1987 same

[@anarchistatheist1917]

I was born the following year. When the summer Olympics were in los Angeles.

[@Splintz4daWintz]

I was 3

[@Yungndturnt]

I wasn’t born my grand dad died and yea

[@JamesRMeans]

I was stuck in non-moving traffic on the 110 fwy, watching the funnel cloud coming directly at me... Rocked my car like a toy and substantial damage to car's body and windows... However, I drove to work with busted windows after it passed! Suffered only minor cuts, thank God!

[@sampiera7834]

The goddess? Filthy pagan

[@marcchatow9516]

You were stuck in non-moving traffic in LA?... Groundbreaking!!!

[@jasonburger3533]

@@yellowlght9181 It was about 8:00 in the morning. There was a tornado in Montebello, a suburb of Los Angeles just yesterday and it damaged 17 buildings, went close to a school and sucked a teacher out of her high school classroom and rescued by a student, and injured one other person. It has been all over the news with photos online as well. There was a tornado in Carpinteria, near Santa Barbara, yesterday, so they do happen in California more frequently than you might think, but the 1983 tornado was very large. Each year there are an average of 10 small tornadoes in California, some more than others.

[@jasonburger3533]

@@marcchatow9516 The same day of the 1983 tornado also included a 3.5 earthquake centered in Inglewood. The rain, it is now said by seismologists, if very heavy, is capable of triggering earthquakes and the large earthquakes projected for the region could literally be groundbreaking as well. There has not only been a rain drought, but an earthquake drought in California recently. Well, the rain drought is over currently.

[@ari3lz3pp]

​@@jasonburger3533Makes sense depending on the sediment. I have been nervous about this when it's been suddenly pouring rain where we are at in SoCal. Streams formed in the dirt areas. I have been wondering if it could trigger sink holes. Definitely causes cliff collapse.

[@marcchatow9516]

That's crazy! The winter of 82/83, we had a VERY strong El Nino winter weather pattern, with MANY storms hitting the West, & Southwest. I was living in LA at the time, and it was raining sooo much that winter!! But lately, we've been stuck in a stagnant La Nina weather pattern.

[@chevy-714]

Tornado in Montebello 2023 today brought me here

[@PizzaTime-Studios54]

40 years ago! Now we got a F-1 tornado struck Montebello, California! 😯🌪

[@jasonburger3533]

@Pizza Time Studios Montebello tornado was 110 mph and nearly an F2 and has left millions of dollars in damage and sucked a high school teacher out of her classroom, but was rescued by one of her students.

[@ari3lz3pp]

​@@jasonburger3533How? They just yanked her back in before she got lifted?

[@ari3lz3pp]

Tornados apparently happen every year in CA. Just light like the F1-F2. I am born and raised (SoCal) and had no idea. Lol 😆 Many of us thought sure sign of end of times. Haha That's what you get when uneducated about it. #public_school What scares me, is if we had larger tornados than the F2....we don't have proper shelters here like most do in other states. We don't even have an alarm system for that here as far as I know. Maybe push notifications...but I know ppl that keep their phones off for a day or two.

[@jasonburger3533]

@@ari3lz3pp There are no early warning systems for tornadoes in California. The Emergency Alert System, EAS, formerly the Emergency Broadcast System, EBS, would be the way that all regional emergencies in the Los Angeles region should be communicated, traditionally on some AM and FM radio stations and local television stations as well. That preceded smartphones and many do have them off for days at a time; I have been in that category.

[@jasonburger3533]

@@ari3lz3pp Yes, the female teacher opened a door to the classroom and one of her male students went out after her and pulled her back into their classroom while there was still a chance to do that.

[@raymondsaucedo1491]

Here after tornado happened again in LA 3/22/23

[@Outspokentiger007]

That is crazy.

[@hbsoc200]

I was a 8 yrs old watching Scooby-Doo in the morning with my dad when I hear a wind outside and everything started to shake almost like an earthquake but different. it was more like vibration and then the windows started to vibrbate and all suddenly shattered and the rain started to get inside the house. I noticed some small Japanese cars were rolling over three to four houses away. one of the light post fell on top of my dad's Chevelle but no damaged to the car just a scratch. I used to lived on 41st Street and Broadway. I missed the good old days including the now extinct restaursnt Pup n' Taco and Pioneer Chicken.

[@jasonburger3533]

@Ruben Rodriguez. There was an earthquake later that same day that measured 3.5 and centered in Inglewood. Scooby-Doo was on KCOP-TV Channel 13 back when there were cartoons in the mornings and afternoons on the independent non-network television stations. Now that is all morning and afternoon local newsblocks and television talk shows and no cartoons.

[@GeneralZapta213]

Theres Pioneer Chicken on Whittier and Soto OG

[@staceejaxx1969]

A tornado just hit LA a few days ago. 40 years later.

[@ericboncuk5303]

My daughter was born Kaiser in Harbor City on that day. Always a vivid reminder of the day she was born.

[@frighteningartistry]

I was born there in February 1983. I use to live in the P.Js

[@jasonburger3533]

@@frighteningartistry The P.Js. Huh? That region is known as the South Bay.

[@linnieb6226]

Good gosh, I was actually in this one. The memories aren't so clear because I don't live there anymore, but I was with friends at a convention center near downtown somewhere when it happened.

[@jasonburger3533]

@Linnie B A part of the roof blew off the Los Angeles Convention Center as a result of the 1983 tornado. There was a lot of damage and 9 deaths and there were injuries and an LAPD helicopter crashed that night patrolling the damaged region, killing all aboard, I recall.

[@XxSlayerXxnuffin]

Well in Christmas night there was a tornado warning

[@XxSlayerXxnuffin]

@Lisa B damn

[@MrScarybaby]

Wow and it happened again today In montebello history repeated

[@michaelveis6498]

I was in the area. The sky was almost pitch black. Nine people were killed. This is the only incidence that I have heard of deaths from a tornado in California!

[@RavenTheShamanTarot]

0:29 I was born in 83 and I stayed in a shelter on Broadway!

[@Copium445]

People in the Midwest: first time

[@boxsterman77]

I had no idea!

[@lizb4234]

I found Keenan Thompson at 3:01

[@josephmendoza9523]

40 years later we get another one

[@travisleland1186]

I was 13. They closed school that day after it hit the convention center

[@heroknaderi]

WOW 😮

[@iamnaruto7688]

Sad

[@Jayahrdknocc134pl]

Did you guys see the big one that happened in Sacramento two days ago!

[@calebyao.]

Not even an EF1 lol just a gustnado

[@omarsstuff9819]

It probably wasn't big tornados in cali are rare and don't have enough recourses to make a ef3 to ef5

[@calebyao.]

@@omarsstuff9819 it was really big, but not powerful

[@that_one_girl444]

I, am lucky I don’t have tornadoes 🌪 because I am in inland so I hope everyone is safe in los ……..

[@JamesCraigWhoop]

I was living in La Crescenta at 7 yrs old. I had no idea it happened.

[@josephhoman8602]

Wow I had no idea about this

[@VOLTRONDEFENDER4440]

Dang didn’t realize that will happen and how its rarely even spawned their when I visited that

[@abc123fhdi]

We get high enough winds to topple trees though on a regular basis.

[@2kjknn78]

Its happened to me since I was 7 years old

[@socalfaithfuls4020]

Tornado warning for LA today doubt it happens but never counting anything out

[@SWAY2369]

this just happened right now… end of times

[@RootedLegacy]

And not one footage of it smh

[@sylvialupehernandez9154]

That kid at 1: 41, he said his friend flew in the air, he probably about nine here he would be about 47 now, 2021.

[@unitymaster803]

. Yeah, that happened when I was around 10 & just learned how people could be to others in life. You can run, but you can't hide!

[@moneyblue8466]

Lol now they’re another

[@jeffreyreyes6800]

It happened again 40 years later

[@albertopopoca6569]

WOOOOOOOW. 😥🙁

[@barrywooden1594]

oh my god

[@db-rc5fr]

Don’t remember this

[@BrandonMontejo305]

F3 is my guess, what category was it?

[@bumslightrail2382]

Ya probably an Ef-2 or ef-3. I just read that there was 9 deaths. Don’t know how true that is but that’s pretty crazy if it is

[@jasonburger3533]

​@@bumslightrail2382 That was true that there were 9 deaths. They might not be counting police that were killed that evening in an LAPD helicopter patrolling the damaged neighborhoods to keep out looters. It was a meteorological mess in that tornado region and throughout southern California from the series of El Nino storms.

[@Diamondsmuggler]

It’s back

[@lizab7625]

Girlfriend you need to slow down a little so people can hear what you're saying

[@Kartzchen]

Had 2 tornados in less than 24 hours. It's 2023!!

[@Dante95nyc]

Right in the middle of the hood

[@MrCooper83]

I was a month old :)

[@bubblingbubztheklown5902]

This is hilarious, born in 1989 so either I didn't pay attention in history or they just left out this LA Tornado and I didn't even know about Mt Saint Helens until my 20s and that was shocking.

[@beerrox711]

An F0 tornado hit around the same area in 2012ish

[@jasonburger3533]

@@beerrox711 An F2 in Montebello with extensive damage and one injury just yesterday, the strongest tornado to touch down in the Los Angeles region since the 1983 tornado. There have been many smaller ones in the years since, as California averages 10 tornadoes per year. There were many in the 1990s, 2000s, and 2010s, but most were small, none as large as Montebello, which has left millions of dollars in damage.

[@UncleGordon1978]

🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@jdollinter]

Ask if Seattle has ever had a tornado?

[@Nightyknight2001]

In December of 2018 there was a tornado in Port Orchard. A town not far from Seattle.

[@jdollinter]

Oct 1962. Travelled from Sandpoint all the way across Lake Wash. Did a lot of damage. One week before the big blow.

[@BLSoldier00]

Try Alaska. Only two tornadoes recorded there from 1950 through 2006.

[@ishmaelrosas7051]

No 🌪️ warning

[@erich84502ify]

9 people died

[@MRelemint]

Hold up.. Is the person interviewing the then mayor of Los Angeles the same gentlemen that went viral years back for a late 80’s clip when he was covering a story in the country & a bug went in his mouth & he just lost it? 😂

[@changly6490]

I dnt remember a tornado hit California weird or just bs news

[@theoriginal668]

Na tornados have it California before. It's not that unusual.

[@fritzyboi6390]

There was one or a tornado warning at least in L.A. or Orange County on January 2020

[@jasonburger3533]

​​​​@@theoriginal668 Yes, look on KZbin for the 1966 Hawthorne, California tornado. There is Super 8 color video with no sound. Hawthorne is about 12 miles southwest of Downtown Los Angeles. There was a large tornado there again at the end of September 1983. Both did much damage, caused injuries, but no deaths that I recall. I was not alive in 1966, but was living in an adjacent city in the 1983 tornado and we had very strong winds and heavy rain. Several days later in October 1983, there was a very powerful nocturnal thunderstorm that vibrated the ground. There was a tornado near Disneyland in Anaheim earlier in 1983, part of that 1982-1983 El Nino season. Long Beach had tornadoes, many, touch down on one day in 1982. There was one tornado in Long Beach in 1998. The newspaper headline said "Twist And Spout". That was on the front page of the Long Beach Press-Telegram newspaper in January 1998.

[@jasonburger3533]

​@@yellowlght9181 Yes, it was all over the news and huge amounts of rain and floods had occurred.

[@jasonburger3533]

@Chang Ly. There was just the largest tornado in the Los Angeles region since the 1983 occurrence, this time in Montebello, causing millions of dollars in damage and sucking a high school teacher out of her classroom, who was fortunately rescued by one of her students. That is all real as well. In the 1990s through 2010s there were smaller tornadoes in various parts of the Los Angeles region as well.

[@lizb4234]

I found Keenan Thompson at 3:01

[@katrinahampton2504]

Lmao