A mysterious cloud feature in Atlanta may have fooled people into thinking they were seeing a tornado. Here's an explanation ...

Smoke from a fire and explosion at a fireworks facility on July 1, 2025, in Esparto is visible from a camera on the ...

Researchers have found that smoke from fires can intensify tornadoes. They examined the effects of smoke -- resulting from spring agricultural land-clearing fires in Central America -- transported ...

A whirling vortex of smoke seen on camera as the "Park Fire" in California exploded Thursday looked just like a tornado, but scientists are investigating whether it was a rare fire tornado or just a ...

Saturday news: Park Fire quickly becomes one of the biggest wildfires in California history The rotating pillar of smoke shown on the video is not the fire tornado, Nauslar said. In this case ...

Scientists Are Learning More About Fire Tornadoes, The Spinning Funnels Of Flame Big wildfires create their own weather, and can even spawn tornadoes swirling with smoke and flame. Researchers are ...

Deadliest Tornado Outbreak in Decades Was Fueled by Smoke From Land Clearing. April 2011 saw the worst day of U.S. tornadoes since 1974, and a new analysis points to fires in Central America as ...

The tornadoes that struck the eastern United States on April 27, ... Now, there’s no need to adopt the motto, ‘where there’s smoke there’s tornadoes!’ At least, not yet.

A series of fire tornadoes — genuine twisters made of smoke and flame — struck Lassen County, Calif., on Saturday, churning around as the Loyalton Fire rapidly expanded to more than 20,000 acres.

Lorri Provow captured this smoke tornado on Saturday as the Cameron Peak Fire raged through the foothills of Larimer County. It all comes down to physics.

A whirling vortex of smoke seen on camera as the "Park Fire" in California exploded Thursday looked just like a tornado, but scientists are investigating whether it was a rare fire tornado or just ...

The tornado's winds reached 143 mph winds, the equivalent of an EF-3 tornado on the five-level Enhanced Fujita Scale. A fire tornado was confirmed in the Loyalton Fire in California in 2020.