Overview

• NOAA’s Storm Prediction Center places Los Angeles in a Level 1 severe risk, with forecasters noting an isolated tornado and wind-damage threat Tuesday morning through midday along the coast.
• NOAA’s Weather Prediction Center issues a Level 2 flood risk, with 1–4 inches of rain possible and wind gusts forecast around 30–55 mph, elevating flash-flood and debris-flow danger on recent burn scars.
• City officials ordered mandatory evacuations for about 114 high-risk homes in Pacific Palisades and Mandeville Canyon, with officers conducting door-to-door notifications.
• A Severe Thunderstorm Watch covered parts of Southern California through 6 a.m., marking the first such watch for the Los Angeles area since January 2008.
• State and local agencies pre-positioned a 22-member strike team, urban search-and-rescue units, high-water vehicles, rescue swimmers and helicopters, as forecasters expect conditions to improve by Tuesday evening.