The satellite image, captured Saturday by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite, showed Tropical Storm Kay hovering off the coast of Southern California and Mexico's Baja Peninsula — an image more typically associated with parts of the Atlantic Ocean, Gulf of Mexico and other warmer waters.

Though Kay never made landfall in the state, "it was certainly closer than anything we've ever had before that I can remember," said Mike Wofford, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Oxnard.

Wofford said it would take some time for officials to analyze the full scope of the storm, including its ultimate size and cumulative effects. But Brandt Maxwell, a meteorologist with the weather service in San Diego, said "it's not outlandish to say that the impacts covered a 1,000-mile-wide area."