The Bay Area will mostly dry out for a few days before rain is expected to return Sunday along with another round of potential flooding, mudslides and wind damage. Chief Meteorologist Jeff Ranieri and Jocelyn Moran report.
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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