As the Southern California wildfires continue to rage, fire tornadoes could erupt and cause even more problems.

The National Weather Service's warning about the “particularly dangerous situation” in which any new fire could explode in ...

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But Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at UCLA, told USA TODAY that it instead appears to be an example of a fire whirl, which is “more akin to a dust devil than a tornado” and is less severe.

A Jan. 9 Threads post (direct link, archive link) shows what appears to be two tornadoes moving through a burning rural landscape. “Did you know that Cali gets fire tornadoes?!” the post reads.

Aerial footage captured the charred remnants of Pacific Palisades, a neighborhood west of downtown Los Angeles severely ...

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. The National ...

The National Weather Service is providing more details on a tornado that touched down in Lincoln County earlier in the month.

It’s a community that’s no stranger to natural disasters, but they’re usually hurricanes. When an EF2 tornado hit Brazoria ...

The National Weather Service's Los Angeles page screams 'Particularly Dangerous Situation' in hot pink letters against a gray ...

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.