A tornado swept through a swath of Tennessee, killing a mother and daughter and injuring at least three other people as it ...

The blaze looks similar to a twister. 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 ...

Monday marks 16 years since an EF-4 tornado touched down in the Oklahoma town of Lone Grove, killing eight people.

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 ...

The twister was the first confirmed February tornado in the county on record ... for the City of Oak Ridge told WVLT News the city's fire department was sending resources and help into Morgan ...

As fire season is underway, here's a heads-up about another very destructive and dangerous element of a fire. When a blaze is large enough and hot enough, the heat creates huge towers of twisting air.