A team of tornado researchers have confirmed two touched down north and east of Winnipeg on Wednesday evening — one near ...

A tornado warning has been issued in northern Ontario as a line of severe storms sweep through the region Friday morning.

South of the border, blazes in California have produced at least one significant fire-induced tornado in recent years—an EF-3 tornado during July 2018’s Carr Fire. Strong rotation within fire ...

Footage of a 'fire tornado' was captured by firefighters near the area of Gun Lake, B.C., about 200 kilometres north of Vancouver. (B.C. Wildfire Service) ...

A fire tornado, or fire whirl, is seen in a video shot by the B.C. Wildfire Service at Gun Lake in the B.C. Interior overnight on Aug. 17. Supplied / THE CANADIAN PRESS/B.C. Wildfire Service ...

Find her on Twitter @JenStDen. A screenshot from a video posted by BC Wildfire Service that shows a fire tornado on Gun Lake on Aug. 18. Photo via BC Wildfire Service.

The BC Wildfire Service has shared a video showing what it calls an “incredibly rare” fire tornado, also known as a fire whirl, that was whipped up over Gun Lake in the Central Interior.

Fire whirl, fire devil, fire tornado or even firenado _ scientists, firefighters and regular folks use multiple terms to describe similar phenomena, and they don’t always agree on what’s what.

“As shown in the video, the combination of high fire intensity, strong winds and air mass instability resulted in the formation of a fire whirl (otherwise known as a fire tornado) over Gun Lake,” the ...

The BC Wildfire Service has published a video of a fire tornado spotted at the Downton Lake wildfire last week. Last week’s cold front moved over B.C. causing strong winds and sending many wildfires ...

Fire tornados can make fires stronger by sucking up air, Carvalho said. “It creates a tornado track, and wherever this goes, the destruction is like any other tornado.” In 2018, a fire tornado the ...

Two massive wildfires burning in Arizona and Utah are doing more than scorching the landscape. They’re generating towering ...