A rare tornado touched down in Pico Rivera early Thursday morning, downing some trees and power lines.
The tornado was designated an EF0, which is the weakest category on the the Enhanced Fujita Scale. It occurred at 3:15 am near Glencannon Drive and Church Street as wind gusts reached up to 85 miles per hour.
A team of meteorologists from the National Weather Service (NWS) arrived Thursday to survey the damage.
NWS’ Ariel Cohen told ABC News that the event was “part of a larger Pacific storm system that brought significant rainfall and flooding impacts, as well as strong winds to a large portion of coastal California” and that “this activity did spawn what we have determined to be a tornado."
"This is a localized area of enhanced frequencies of tornadoes that actually rival some parts of the midwestern United States," he added.
No major damage was reported.