KATU News has received reports of a possible tornado in the McMinnville area on Tuesday afternoon. One viewer tells Storm Tracker 2 Meteorologist Rhonda Shelby that it was strong enough to ...

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.

SAN ANTONIO – A Texas woman recently found herself in her own "personal tornado" when she was caught in a dust devil. Leslie Holt told FOX Weather she was leaving the boat and RV dealership in ...

Firenados are similar to dust devils, but with fire instead of dust ... This is a "firenado," or fire tornado. It formed out of wildfires in Arganil, Portugal. Firenados are swirling columns ...

A powerful storm system that tore across the United States in recent days is winding down Monday, but in its wake are ...

For the third consecutive weekend, the Central U.S. will face a multiday severe weather threat starting late Saturday night.

high winds and blinding dust storms that decimated homes and other structures and left at least 37 people dead. National Weather Service meteorologist Cody Snell said tornado watches remained in ...

This is why the East Union logo boasts a seahorse rather than a sea urchin. Not quite a tornado, a dust devil is a strong, well-formed, relatively short-lived whirlwind. And the Dust Devils ...

A powerful storm system that tore across the United States in recent days was winding down Monday, but in its wake are devastated communities hit with violent tornadoes, wildfires and dust storms ...