{"id":280106,"date":"2026-04-22T11:13:01","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T11:13:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/280106\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T11:13:01","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T11:13:01","slug":"confirmed-tornado-on-ground-near-fresno-nws-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/280106\/","title":{"rendered":"Confirmed tornado on ground near Fresno: NWS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">FRESNO, Calif. (KTTV) &#8211; A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxla.com\/tag\/weather\/severe-weather\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:confirmed tornado;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;confirmed tornado&quot;}\" class=\"link \">confirmed tornado<\/a> was spotted near <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxla.com\/tag\/us\/ca\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Fresno, California;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Fresno, California&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Fresno, California<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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 class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The report from NWS comes as parts of Fresno and Madera counties are under tornado warnings through 2:45 p.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">As fo 2:30 p.m., officials have not announced any injuries related to the tornado.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This story was reported from Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Source<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This report used information provided by the San Joaquin Valley\/Hanford office of the National Weather Service.<\/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":280107,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[105300,120455,112,622,114,113,60,120453,120456,120454],"class_list":["post-280106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-biola","tag-biola-ca","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-county","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news","tag-national-weather-service","tag-nws-hanford","tag-rolling-hills-ca","tag-tornado-warnings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280106","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=280106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280106\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/280107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}