On March 22, a powerful tornado hit Montebello, California, and a teacher at Vail High School was captured being sucked out of her classroom in a cell phone video. The teacher had opened the door after her students informed her that someone had run outside, at which point the wind blew the door open and pulled her off her feet, sucking her outside. Fortunately, a high school senior came to her rescue, and she sustained only minor injuries. This was the strongest tornado to hit the Los Angeles metro area since 1983, and the National Weather Service rated it as EF1, with winds of 110 mph, which made it the strongest tornado recorded in the region since 1983. The tornado wreaked havoc, damaging 17 buildings in an industrial warehouse and commercial business district. An HVAC unit was ejected from the top of one building, and one building suffered complete roof collapse. Additionally, the tornado damaged multiple cars and uprooted a large pine tree. Tornados are rare in California, but this twister was the second to hit the Golden State within 24 hours. It damaged around 25 mobile homes near Santa Barbara, which was confirmed by NWS. This tornado was part of a series of severe weather events in California in recent weeks, including rare blizzards and catastrophic flooding.