In August 2020, a wildfire in Northern California spawned a fire tornado that led the National Weather Service (NWS) to issue a tornado warning. The first 'fire tornado' was 'verified' during the ...

PDS warnings were first used to warn of tornado outbreaks in the Midwest ... During the first week of November last year, as Santa Ana winds fueled the Mountain Fire northwest of Los Angeles, the ...

Athens-Clarke County and UGA to conduct annual testing of outside tornado sirens and suggest residents use the opportunity to prepare.

Fire tornadoes, she added, are "not the same as a regular tornado." Firefighters continue to battle the wildfires in Southern California. The current red flag warnings in the Los Angeles and San ...

As if they aren’t already facing enough, firefighters in California also could encounter fire tornadoes — a rare but dangerous phenomenon in which wildfires create their own weather.