A weak tornado struck rural Watsonville last weekend, causing a mile-long path of damage near San Andreas Road, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reported Thursday.
The tornado came ashore from the Monterey Bay around 6:59 a.m. Saturday and lasted three minutes, according to NOAA. No one was injured.
The 75 mph winds uprooted trees and collapsed several commercial greenhouses at Kitayama Brothers, Inc., a cut-flower grower about a quarter-mile inland, according to NOAA. The damage was on the south side of the farm.
"It's like the tornado just came up and stomped on it," Stuart Kitayama, general manager of the company, said when describing how the flattened greenhouses looked.
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