A tornado touched down in Pico Rivera, California early Thursday morning, forecasters confirmed, as a brutal rain storm batters Southern California.

A tornado touched down in a Los Angeles County neighborhood early Thursday morning, a rare event in Southern California. With 85 mph winds, the Oxnard tornado knocked down trees and damaged homes and cars in Pico Rivera at around 3:15 a.

A rare sight in California - a tornado - slammed a Pico Rivera neighborhood early Thursday during the state’s latest storm. The tornado, which happened between 3 and 4 a.m., lasted two minutes and moved at 85 mph in the city in southeastern Los Angeles County,