A waterspout was spotted off Seal Beach and two tornado warnings were issued as severe storm cells rolled in off the Pacific this afternoon. At 12:45 p.m. a tornado warning was issued for Orange County until 1:30 p.m. (extended to 2 p.m.) as the National Weather Service reported a storm cell heading northeast toward the Newport / Huntington Beach coast.

The waterspout was sighted at 1:02 pm moving northeast toward the coast, according to NWS. Witnesses reported golf ball-sized hail in the Seal Beach area and a brief funnel cloud.

At 12:36 p.m., doppler radar indicated a storm capable of producing a tornado in southern LA county headed for Long Beach and Whittier. This warning expired at 1:15 p.m. No funnel clouds have been reported.

Orange County Warning (expired at 1:30 p.m.):
Tornado warning for… Orange County in Southwest California… this includes the cities of…Seal Beach…Huntington Beach…Westminster…Garden Grove…Irvine…Fullerton…Costa Mesa…Anaheim… * until 130 pm * at 1237 pm…National Weather Service doppler radar indicated a severe thunderstorm capable of producing a tornado 17 miles southwest of Huntington Beach…moving northeast at 30 mph.

The tornado will be near:

* Huntington Beach by 1:10 pm…
* Fountain Valley…Costa Mesa…Westminster and Garden Grove by 1:20 pm…
* Santa Ana by 1:25 pm…
* Tustin…Tustin Foothills…Orange and 6 miles northwest of Irvine by 1:30 pm…

The tornado flipped over a truck to its side in Costa Mesa.

Jerry Bridges uses his canoe to check on his wife’s car in the 900 block of Bennett Ave in Long Beach.

The amount of rain also caused severe mudslide in the area as well.