{"id":280586,"date":"2026-04-22T17:50:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T17:50:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/280586\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T17:50:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T17:50:19","slug":"tornado-touches-down-in-californias-central-valley-near-fresno-national-weather-service-confirms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/280586\/","title":{"rendered":"Tornado touches down in California&#8217;s Central Valley near Fresno, National Weather Service confirms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The National Weather Service has confirmed reports of a tornado that touched down in California&#8217;s Central Valley on Tuesday, as a powerful spring storm passed through the region.<\/p>\n<p>According to the agency&#8217;s Storm Prediction Center, the tornado was reported after 5 p.m. 11 miles northeast of the city of Clovis. A tornado warning was in effect at the time for the communities of Auberry and Tollhouse.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Damage assessment team reported snapped and uprooted trees consistent with EF1 damage from tornado around 5:24PM PDT,&#8221; the agency said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The weather service said an EF1 tornado has winds between 86 and 110 mph.<\/p>\n<p>Around 2 p.m., the weather service issued multiple tornado warnings for areas north of Fresno. According to Fresno CBS affiliate KGPE-TV, school districts in the area issued shelter-in-place orders when the warnings were in effect.<\/p>\n<p>The Storm Prediction Center also confirmed reports of damaging winds in Merced County, including downed trees near the communities of Ballico and Cressley. Near the city of Atwater, a farm and house also sustained property damage due to the wind.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The National Weather Service has confirmed reports of a tornado that touched down in California&#8217;s Central Valley on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":264728,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113,4349,58337],"class_list":{"0":"post-280586","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fresno","8":"tag-fresno","9":"tag-fresno-headlines","10":"tag-fresno-news","11":"tag-tornado","12":"tag-tornado-warning"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280586","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=280586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280586\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}