No tropical storm has made landfall in Southern California since Sept. 25, 1939, when a system lost its hurricane status just before moving onshore in Long Beach.
Forty-five deaths were reported. Property losses were estimated at $2 million.
A recorded storm has never moved into California as a hurricane. Some have come close, including Norman in 1978, Doreen in 1977, Hyacinth in 1972 and Jen-Kahtin 1963. That's due to cooler ocean water and a regional high-pressure system that weakens storms as they get closer to the coastline. Tropical storms and hurricanes feed off warmer ocean water, which drops off north of Baja California's southern tip.
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