{"id":368326,"date":"2025-12-24T22:45:16","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T22:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/368326\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T22:45:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T22:45:16","slug":"tornado-warning-issued-for-small-portion-of-east-central-la-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/368326\/","title":{"rendered":"Tornado warning issued for small portion of east-central LA County"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"KABC<\/p>\n

Last updated: Wednesday, December 24, 2025 9:27PM GMT<\/p>\n

\"ABC7<\/p>\n

A powerful Christmas week storm is dumping rain across Southern California, putting at-risk communities on alert for possible mudslides and creating slick driving conditions for the region as a whole.<\/p>\n

The atmospheric river is bringing several inches of rain over the next few days, raising the risk of flash flooding and triggering evacuation warnings in some areas.<\/p>\n

Significant rain is expected to slam Southern California for most of Wednesday, and the wet weather will stick around through Friday.
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Key Headlines<\/p>\n

Here’s how the news is developing.<\/p>\n

\"KABC<\/p>\n

Tornado warning issued for small portion of east-central LA County<\/p>\n

A Tornado Warning was issued for a small portion of east-central Los Angeles County, which included the communities of Alhambra, Pasadena, Monterey Park, San Gabriel, El Monte, and Temple City.<\/p>\n

The warning was canceled around 10:40 a.m., but the National Weather Service said that damaging winds are likely to stick around and that the Severe Thunderstorm Warning remains in effect for the area.<\/p>\n

\"City<\/p>\n

Thousands across SoCal impacted by power outages, LADWP says<\/p>\n

The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power reports numerous power outages in various parts of its service area.<\/p>\n

In all, thousands of customers are affected, but crews are either at work or being dispatched to restore service.<\/p>\n

The largest outages are in the San Fernando Valley and the West L.A. area, according to the department’s outage map.<\/p>\n

Southern California Edison is also reporting outages in Los Angeles and Orange County but fewer numbers of customers appear to be affected.<\/p>\n

City News Service, Inc. contributed to this report.<\/p>\n

\"KABC<\/p>\n

California working to capture rain for future water supply<\/p>\n

California is working to capture as much storm as possible.<\/p>\n

The winter season is a critical time of year for collecting and storing water to get us through the drier months.<\/p>\n

Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office says last month’s storms generated enough water to supply tens of thousands of households in Los Angeles alone.<\/p>\n

And reservoirs across the state still have room for the rain we’re getting now. Lake Oroville’s storage is at 54% capacity.<\/p>\n

\"KABC<\/p>\n

How many times has SoCal had rain on Christmas?<\/p>\n

In Southern California, we’re often spoiled with our nice weather.<\/p>\n

It’s usually dry on Christmas, which allows us to have our holiday gatherings outdoors. But this storm system could deliver one of the wettest holidays in recent memory.<\/p>\n

ABC7 Meteorologist Dallas Raines looked into it and found that it has only rained 46 times on Christmas Day since 1892.<\/p>\n

This storm system could deliver one of the wettest holidays in recent memory.<\/p>\n

So we’re talking about a span of more than 125 years. That means we’ve only received rain 34% of the time.<\/p>\n

The most recent storm was back in 2017 when it rained almost one inch on Christmas Day in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n

And if you were wondering if L.A. has ever had a white Christmas, the answer is no. But we can always dream, right?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Last updated: Wednesday, December 24, 2025 9:27PM GMT A powerful Christmas week storm is dumping rain across Southern…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":368327,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[179456,23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-368326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-179456","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=368326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368326\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/368327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}