A spinning fire vortex spotted on video Friday among the flames in a raging Pacific Palisades wildfire looks similar to a tornado, but scientists are still examining whether it was a rare fire ...

The visualization of the leading edge vortex on this and 31 other specimens of maple seeds show that the robotic model maple seeds accurately predicted the presence of a strong tornado-like vortex ...

They also point to a possible 'multi-vortex tornado' - a tornado with multiple smaller vortices, called sub-vortices or suction vortices, that swirl around the main vortex and are considered more ...

A waterspout is a "funnel which contains an intense vortex, sometimes destructive, of small horizontal extent and ... believe ...