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Fire Tornadoes Pose a Threat in California. A Fire Lab Shows How They Work As if they aren’t already facing enough, firefighters in California also could encounter fire tornadoes — a rare but ...

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 ...

A man has been caught on a Ring camera video setting a palm tree on fire in Los Angeles, where wildfires continue to burn. The video shows a man in a hoodie lighting a low-hanging palm frond in ...

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During Sunday afternoon's press briefing ... Los Angeles has been hit by a rare fire tornado as the Palisades blaze continues to spread across the county, causing widespread devastation, Fox ...

A spinning fire vortex spotted on video Friday among the flames in a raging Pacific Palisades wildfire looks similar to a tornado, but scientists are still examining whether it was a rare fire ...

Supercell thunderstorms are known for their devastatingly gnarly tornadoes, but exactly how the twisters form is poorly understood. A new study suggests that scientists could glean hints with a ...

Each story in the KXAN Data Hub is updated as new data becomes available. AUSTIN (KXAN) — More than 9,800 tornadoes have been reported across the Lone Star State since 1950, according to data ...

The National Weather Service has confirmed that a tornado did touch down in west Alabama on Sunday night. A storm survey team has confirmed it was an EF1 with estimated winds of 90 mph.