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September 25, 1939 – A tropical storm known as El Cordonazo, or The Lash of St. Francis, made landfall near Long Beach with sustained winds of 50 mph (85 km/h), which as of 2025 is the most recent tropical storm landfall in California. The storm killed 45 people across southern California, and another 48 people at sea, with residents caught ...
Nearly 200,000 homes and business had power interrupted during the storm; about 42,000 remain in the dark. 3 killed in Northern California as powerful storm’s wicked winds snap trees, cut power ...
Several people were trapped in their cars and had to be rescued. Three people were killed from flooding on the roads. [49] The levee failures were traced to a private property. [50] Wind gusts of over 60 miles per hour (97 km/h) knocked down trees and caused widespread power outages that affected over 500,000 SMUD and PG&E customers. [51]
• At least nine people killed: Nine weather-related deaths have been recorded in California during the powerful storms, the state’s Office of Emergency Management said. At least four of the ...
More than 475 mudslides or debris flows were reported and at least nine people were killed by the storm, according to CNN. AccuWeather estimates the preliminary total damage and economic loss from ...
Thirty-four people were killed, four thousand people were arrested, and it is estimated that more than one thousand were injured. [62] 34 1878 1878 Wallingford tornado: Tornado Southern Connecticut: $5,300,000 (2007) 34 1893 1893 New York hurricane: Tropical cyclone Eastern United States: 34+ 1916 1916 Gulf Coast hurricane: Tropical cyclone
The extreme weather has resulted in "15 shelters open in nine counties, more than 9,400 people under evacuation orders, approximately 54,000-plus people without power, and unfortunately two deaths ...
September 25, 1939 – A tropical storm known as El Cordonazo, or The Lash of St. Francis, made landfall near Long Beach with sustained winds of 50 mph (85 km/h), which as of 2025 is the most recent tropical storm landfall in California. The storm killed 45 people across southern California, and another 48 people at sea, with residents caught ...