Source: SFGate
“A tornado touched down in Santa Cruz County on Saturday, downing trees and flipping over cars, the National Weather Service’s Bay Area office confirmed after surveying the scene. At 1:39 p.m. on Saturday, the tornado touched down at the intersection of Mount Hermon Road and Lockewood Lane in Scotts Valley, a town about an hour south of San Francisco. It continued southeast for .31 miles, ripping branches from trees, downing power lines and overturning several cars, with maximum wind speeds of 90 mph. It petered out around Kings Village Road after five minutes, the weather service estimated. In the aftermath of the stunning weather event, both Scotts Valley police and California Highway Patrol issued traffic alerts, initially believing a multi-vehicle crash had taken place at the Scotts Valley Square Shopping Center. Those alerts were later corrected to note the cause of the flipped cars was a tornado.” (12/15/24)
https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/tornado-touches-down-california-19982031.php