Meteorologists with the National Weather Service in Northern California are investigating a possible tornado touchdown that happened Thursday morning in Sonoma County.
According to the weather service, a video of the possible tornado was taken from a resident in Petaluma looking toward the unincorporated community of Two Rock in western Sonoma County around 11:10 a.m.
A team of meteorologists from the weather service watched the footage, but will be heading up to the area to survey any damage before an official report of a tornado can be confirmed, they said.
Tornados are rare in Sonoma County but not unheard of. A twister was last seen in Santa Rosa in 2011, when a funnel cloud made contact with land and sent debris flying, toppled cable and telephone lines and damaged a few buildings.
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