{"id":279439,"date":"2026-04-22T00:48:37","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T00:48:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/279439\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T00:48:37","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T00:48:37","slug":"confirmed-tornado-on-ground-near-fresno-nws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/279439\/","title":{"rendered":"Confirmed tornado on ground near Fresno: NWS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">FRESNO, Calif. (KTTV) &#8211; A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxla.com\/tag\/weather\/severe-weather\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">confirmed tornado<\/a> was spotted near <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxla.com\/tag\/us\/ca\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Fresno, California<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">According to the National Weather Service, the tornado was reported over Biola in Fresno County at 2:19 p.m. PT on Tuesday, April 21.<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">The report from NWS comes as parts of Fresno and Madera counties are under tornado warnings through 2:45 p.m.<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">NWS warns &#8220;flying debris will be dangerous&#8221; for those not able to shelter in place. The agency also warned mobile homes are in danger of getting destroyed, in addition to possible roof, window, and car damage.<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/m9hgd8lu29ctotsp.jpg\" alt=\"Christmas Day tornado hits Boyle Heights [PREV. COVERAGE]\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-4292be72=\"\"\/>   <\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">As fo 2:30 p.m., officials have not announced any injuries related to the tornado.<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">This story was reported from Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: This report used information provided by the San Joaquin Valley\/Hanford office of the National Weather Service.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxla.com\/tag\/weather\/severe-weather\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Severe Weather<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxla.com\/tag\/us\/ca\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">California<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxla.com\/tag\/weather\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Weather<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRESNO, Calif. (KTTV) &#8211; A confirmed tornado was spotted near Fresno, California. According to the National Weather Service,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":279440,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[1184,112,114,113,100,634,1181,19],"class_list":{"0":"post-279439","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fresno","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-fresno","10":"tag-fresno-headlines","11":"tag-fresno-news","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-severe-weather","14":"tag-us","15":"tag-weather"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279439\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}