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

Footage from the edge of the blaze reveals swirling tornadoes of fire taking shape as entire hills were engulfed in fiery red flames. Massive clouds of smoke billowed over entire neighborhoods ...

The Bureau of Meteorology believes a destructive storm that lashed the town of Kaimkillenbun in Southern Queensland formed a funnel cloud, not a tornado. Experts say the difference is tornadoes ...

A tornado touched down in El Campo, Texas, damaging structures and whipping up dust on December 26. Footage filmed by Spencer White shows the funnel spinning near Sam Bishkin Road on Thursday ...

These clouds form vortices of flaming hot gases ... This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Was that a fire tornado swirling amid the flames in Pacific Palisades?

but scientists are still examining whether it was a rare fire tornado or a more common and less intense event known as a “fire whirl.” Video footage shows the tall, thin inferno surrounded by a cloud ...