LOS ANGELES, CA — Lightning prompted lifeguards to evacuate the beach in Santa Monica Thursday afternoon while residents in the San Fernando Valley were hit with an onslaught of rain and hail — a final blast of wild weather from a storm moving out of the region.
While much of the Southland dried out Thursday, the storm packed one last punch to parts of Los Angeles County.
The lingering storm cell quickly developed Thursday afternoon and pounded parts of the San Fernando Valley with rain and hail. For the second day in a row, the National Weather Service issued a severe thunderstorm warning.
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Issued around 3:30 p.m. Thursday, the warning stretches from from Chatsworth to Northridge to Reseda and Winnetka. Video from Chatsworth showed hail falling in some neighborhoods, along with some short-lived driving rain.
Forecasters said the system also had the capability of producing 60 mph winds.
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The NWS also issued a flash flood warning for many of the same areas, but including other communities such as Encino, Van Nuys, North Hollywood, Sherman Oaks, Tarzana and Sun Valley and the San Gabriel Valley. Forecasters said the storm cell could produce rain falling at a rate of up to one inch per hour. The warning will be in place until 7 p.m.
The unsettled weather brought the threat of flooding, hail thunderstorms, water spouts and even tornadoes to Los Angeles County.
Regardless of the quick-moving system, forecasters said the Southland should dry out over the next few days, although it could be breezy on Friday and Saturday.
According to the NWS, temperatures should gradually warm back to normal levels by Friday.
The storm that moved through the region Wednesday dropped sometimes- heavy rain in select areas, but since it moved fairly quickly, the precipitation numbers were held down.
Malibu and Santa Monica both received about an inch of rain, while about a half-inch fell in areas including Hawthorne and Compton, according to the NWS. Some areas of Orange County saw locally higher amounts, including 1.11 inches in Huntington Beach.
City News Service and Patch Staffer Paige Austin contributed to this report.
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