{"id":280184,"date":"2026-04-22T12:29:29","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T12:29:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/280184\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T12:29:29","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T12:29:29","slug":"fresno-area-tornado-warning-results-in-brief-school-shutdown-see-our-funnel-cloud-photo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/280184\/","title":{"rendered":"Fresno-area tornado warning results in brief school shutdown. See our funnel cloud photo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A tornado warning in the Central Valley on Tuesday afternoon resulted in noisy cellphone warnings, concerned drivers and a brief lockdown for a Fresno-area school district.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Brian Ochs, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service office in Hanford, said there was a 2-4 percent chance of a tornado forming between the Stockton and Selma areas on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The conditions were due to a low-pressure system moving the area, which brought along stormy weather conditions. A funnel cloud could be seen forming near Highway 99 and Herndon, though it dissipated before touching down.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"A small tornado funnel, confirmed by the National Weather Service, forms near Highway 99 and Herndon Avenue on Tuesday afternoon, though it didn\u2019t touch down.\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"595\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1776860969_306_ad62c9ce4499bf30209fbcefc87160bb.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A small tornado funnel, confirmed by the National Weather Service, forms near Highway 99 and Herndon Avenue on Tuesday afternoon, though it didn\u2019t touch down.<\/p>\n<p>(Anthony Galaviz)<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">An emergency alert advised people to seek shelter, and Clovis Unified issued a shelter-in-place order around 2:50 p.m. in response to the alert and that order lasted about 30 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Ochs said there was a report of a tornado touching down in Biola around 2:15 p.m. It\u2019s strength is being investigated, and Ochs said there weren\u2019t any reports of damage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Ochs said the Central Valley sees maybe one or two tornado reports annually, and the most recent tornado to touch down in Fresno County happened in Clovis in 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A tornado warning in the Central Valley on Tuesday afternoon resulted in noisy cellphone warnings, concerned drivers and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":280185,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[39959,512,52816,112,622,114,113,60,120646,120645,58337],"class_list":{"0":"post-280184","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fresno","8":"tag-brian-ochs","9":"tag-central-valley","10":"tag-clovis-unified","11":"tag-fresno","12":"tag-fresno-county","13":"tag-fresno-headlines","14":"tag-fresno-news","15":"tag-national-weather-service","16":"tag-stormy-weather-conditions","17":"tag-tornado-forming","18":"tag-tornado-warning"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280184","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=280184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280184\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/280185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}