{"id":369723,"date":"2025-12-24T22:38:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T22:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/369723\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T22:38:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T22:38:11","slug":"christmas-week-storm-brings-low-tornado-risk-to-southern-california-forecasters-say-daily-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/369723\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas week storm brings low tornado risk to Southern California, forecasters say \u2013 Daily News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A very low chance of a tornado is included in the forecast for parts of Los Angeles County this week, though it is not the primary concern, according to a National Weather Service meteorologist.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is a tornado risk \u2014 it\u2019s not what we\u2019re primarily concerned about,\u201d National Weather Service meteorologist Lisa Phillips said.<\/p>\n<p>Forecasters are expecting gusty, strong winds along with a chance of thunderstorms, with increased chances beginning Wednesday and continuing into Christmas Day on Thursday, Phillips said. The greater concern remains the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ocregister.com\/2025\/12\/22\/southern-california-braces-for-a-wet-christmas-week-as-strong-atmospheric-river-looms\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">several inches of rain expected to fall across Southern California<\/a> throughout the week.<\/p>\n<p>If a tornado does form, it would likely be small and short-lived, Phillips said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGenerally, when we get them here, they\u2019re super short-lived,\u201d she said. \u201cThey can have impacts to weaker structures like trailers or lightweight items, but could take down some trees.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Phillips said the low tornado risk is tied to how winds change with height during the storm system.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen winds are turning with height, any thunderstorm that develops within that wind can start spinning and produce it,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>The tornado probability is about 2%, Phillips said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re definitely not expecting tornadoes everywhere,\u201d she said. \u201cThere is the potential for one or two to form.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A very low chance of a tornado is included in the forecast for parts of Los Angeles County&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":369724,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[64,63,485,176067,75,55879,44,128,39,1192],"class_list":{"0":"post-369723","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-crime-and-public-safety","12":"tag-environment","13":"tag-los-angeles-county","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-science","16":"tag-top-stories","17":"tag-weather"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/369724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}