Power Outage in Orland, CA

Tornado. A California Highway Patrol officer observed a funnel cloud form in a wall cloud and drop down on a farm around 3:00 pm PST. The tornado ripped most of the tin roof panels off of a 70 year old barn and also from a chicken coop. Roof pieces were found in a tree and in adjacent fields up to one half of a mile away. One tin roof piece shorted out power lines, causing a loss of power to the neighborhood. A pickup truck suffered damage to the driver side mirror from flying debris. Netting from pheasant pens was ripped up. A large steel hopper was knocked over. The farmhouse was undamaged and the farm animals were apparently unharmed. ||The tornado was non-supercellular and formed when a line of eastward moving thunderstorms ahead of a cold front collided with a westward moving thunderstorm. Neighbors 2 miles away in Princeton took photos of the tornado touching down in a burned rice field briefly before it went aloft and then dropped down on the barn. The tornado was reported to have touched down again just across the street in a field, dropping panels from the barn roof. Another funnel cloud was also reported which did not touch down.

January 24, 2009

Orland, CA (8:44 AM) Grid Power Outage Event >> The Ting Network detected an Electric Utility Grid Power Outage eve… https://t.co/TKmrf1Q7KF

@grid_events - January 14, 2023 17:00

RT @abzee_14: Okay the snow was cute, but the power outage is NOT

@Bricekrick - June 09, 2020 03:45

Okay the snow was cute, but the power outage is NOT

@abzee_14 - June 09, 2020 03:41

RT @DukeNukemm2001: PG&E gas employees wined and dined just before mass power outages https://t.co/oB5Fwc4ho5

@maancomom123 - October 11, 2019 15:46

PG&E gas employees wined and dined just before mass power outages https://t.co/oB5Fwc4ho5

@DukeNukemm2001 - October 11, 2019 15:43