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 ...

Some residents in the Sacramento region may have noticed some winds picking up for the first day of summer and the temperature staying at mid to high 80s making it a cool night ahead. The wind picked ...

On Thursday, the NWS Lubbock Twitter page posted a photo of what is described as a "fire/smoke vortex." An NOAA representative provided more information about the meteorological phenomena also known ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. A wildfire camera caught the moments when a ...

Smoke rings are being seen in a new light. Doughnut-shaped structures called vortex rings are sometimes seen swirling through fluids. Smokers can form them with their mouths, volcanoes can spit them ...