Video footage from Friday shows a rotating inferno surrounded by smoke in the Pacific Palisades fire that has devastated the LA area.

This time 365 days ago we'd already experienced a few different prolific tornado outbreaks as a result of our wintertime ...

Tornado Speed One of the most striking attributes of tornadoes is their incredible speed. The wind speeds within a tornado ...

A tornado touched down in El Campo, Texas, damaging structures and whipping up dust on December 26. Footage filmed by Spencer White shows the funnel spinning near Sam Bishkin Road on Thursday ...

The extreme cold air and the still quite warm Great Lakes are combining for some fascinating weather conditions. One of those ...

FOX 11 Los Angeles/YouTube A "fire tornado" was spotted among the flames raging Los Angeles. In video footage captured by Fox 11 on Friday, Jan. 10, viewers were able to see swirling winds ...

This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Was that a fire tornado swirling amid the flames in Pacific Palisades?

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 ...