A tornado sweeps through Woodley Island, technically | NWS.
Eureka’s Woodley Island was technically hit by a tornado yesterday.
The local National Weather Service office reports that a waterspout, seen sweeping through the marina in the security cam footage above, moved onto land for a few moments yesterday, making it the first tornado recorded in the Emerald Triangle in almost 20 years.
“A waterspout developed over Humboldt Bay Thursday, January 25th around 4:40 p.m. and moved through the Woodley Island Marina, dissipating only a minute or so later,” the NWS wrote on Facebook. “Thankfully, the damage reported was minor. However, because the waterspout moved onto land, it technically became a tornado. This is the first confirmed tornado in the NWS Eureka forecasting area (Mendocino, Trinity, Del Norte, and Humboldt counties) since the Fort Bragg tornado on December 5th, 1998.”
Heads up, doomsday preppers. Humboldt has been hit by a tornado, a 5.8 earthquake and a tsunami warning all in the same week.