Kay won’t make landfall here, but four systems have brought tropical storm-level conditions to the state, including an 1858 hurricane.
to Southern California starting Friday, but shouldn’t pass directly over land on the U.S. side of the border.In recorded history, only one hurricane has made landfall in California. It hit San Diego in October 1858 and is estimated to have been at Category 1 strength. In September 1939, a storm that had just weakened from a hurricane to a tropical storm came ashore near Long Beach.
The effects of tropical cyclones can extend across hundreds of miles, so it’s not unusual for systems to send clouds and rain into Southern California, but Kay will be the“Tropical cyclones come up there every now and then and have direct impacts every generation or two,” said Eric Blake, a senior hurricane specialist with the National Hurricane Center.
“Several very heavy gusts of wind came driving madly along, completely filling the whole atmosphere with thick and impenetrable clouds of dust and sand, so much so, that one who was in the street could no more see around him than if he was surrounded by an Egyptian darkness; this continued for a considerable length of time, the violence of the wind still increasing, until about one o’clock, when it came along in a perfect hurricane, tearing down houses and everything that was in its way.
Flooding killed 45 people across Southern California, while 48 more died at sea, the weather service reported.
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