{"id":281608,"date":"2026-04-23T06:37:38","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T06:37:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/281608\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T06:37:38","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T06:37:38","slug":"confirmed-tornado-on-ground-near-fresno-nws-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/281608\/","title":{"rendered":"Confirmed tornado on ground near Fresno: NWS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/r81hsm0ivy4crvtg.jpg\" alt=\"NWS: Confirmed tornado in Fresno County\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-4292be72=\"\"\/>   <\/p>\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.ktvu.com\/tag\/weather\/severe-weather\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Severe Weather<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktvu.com\/tag\/weather\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Weather<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktvu.com\/tag\/us\/ca\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">California<\/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":281609,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[1184,112,114,113,100,634,1181,19],"class_list":["post-281608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-ca","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news","tag-news","tag-severe-weather","tag-us","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281608","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=281608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281608\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/281609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}