SANTA CRUZ — This winter’s first major storm arrived with a punch but not a knockout in Santa Cruz County.

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A deep, low-pressure storm system moving from the Pacific Northwest to California’s Central Coast arrived Monday and, along with it, periods of heavy downpours and turbulent seas that parked a loose sailing vessel on the beach in Santa Cruz overnight and sent a possible localized tornado to an organic farm along the North Coast.

While weather experts had been tracking the storm for days, National Weather Service meteorologist Dylan Flynn told the Sentinel Tuesday that officials were surprised by just how concentrated the dose of rough weather ended up being.

“It was maybe a little bit more condensed in time than we had initially anticipated,” said Flynn.

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