Strong winds, heavy rains blast peninsula
Fierce winds battered the Tiburon Peninsula on Dec. 14, blowing baywater onto San Rafael Avenue in Belvedere and knocking down trees and power lines in Strawberry, while rains combined with seasonal king tides to flood inbound Tiburon Boulevard alongside Greenwood Cove Drive.
Early that morning, San Francisco had received its first-ever tornado warning, when winds of up to 80 mph tore through the Richmond district and Golden Gate Park areas about 6 a.m. before an EF1 tornado with winds up to 90 mph touched down in Scotts Valley about 1:45 p.m.
In Tiburon, the county’s Pamela Court weather gauge recorded gusts of just 28 mph — a strong breeze — about 8:30 that morning, though several residents commented on Nextdoor about the storm, including Belvedere’s Mona Murphy, who said it was the “strongest winds that I’ve ever experienced.”
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