One woman can be heard yelling, “oh my God” and “that’s a tornado.” Dust devils “are generally smaller and less intense than ...

When a wildfire intensely heats air close to the ground, it can rise rapidly and start to spin into a narrow vortex. As more ...

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

Not quite a tornado, a dust devil is a strong, well-formed, relatively short-lived whirlwind. And the Dust Devils' mascot has lots more personality than a lot of tornado logos out there — it ...

and one of its most fascinating areas of research involves the mysterious phenomenon known as "dust devils." These swirling, tornado-like formations, common on Mars, have long intrigued scientists ...

A tornado forms downwards from a cloud base when warm, moist air collides with colder air. A "firenado" actually has more in common with a whirlwind or dust devil, as they form from the ground ...

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.