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Hurricanes that affect California are mainly the remnants of hurricanes or tropical storms. In the twentieth century, only four eastern Pacific tropical cyclones have brought tropical storm-force winds to the Continental United States: the 1939 Long Beach Tropical Storm, Tropical Storm Joanne in 1972, Tropical Storm Kathleen in 1976, and Tropical Storm Nora in 1997.
A California tropical cyclone is a tropical cyclone that affects the state of California. Usually, only the remnants of tropical cyclones affect California. No hurricane has ever made landfall in California in recorded history, and only one tropical storm.
The 1858 San Diego hurricane was a very rare hurricane that impacted Southern California.It is the only known tropical cyclone to directly impact California as a hurricane, although other systems have impacted California as tropical storms.
The first tropical threat to the U.S. this season isn’t on the East Coast or in the Gulf of Mexico — it’s in Southern California.
Despite the storm losing a great deal of wind intensity since its passage into California, tropical storm-force gusts of 40 mph or greater can still be spread across parts of the Intermountain West.
1939 California tropical storm; 0–9. 1858 San Diego hurricane; 1941 Cabo San Lucas hurricane; A. Hurricane Ava; B. Hurricane Blanca (2015) D. Hurricane Darby (1992)
Remnants of Hurricane Hilary brought floods in Mexico and California as tropical storm’s path passed over San Diego and Los Angeles
Despite its long coastline, California is not vulnerable to tropical cyclones. Because of the cold California Current from the North Pacific Ocean and the fact that the storms tend to "steer" west, California has only been hit with three tropical storms in recorded history, a storm which came ashore in 1939 and dumped heavy rainfall on the Los ...
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