PHOENIX — A tornado appeared to have touched down north of Phoenix amid heavy thunderstorms Monday afternoon. A Facebook video shows swirling clouds and a funnel forming toward the ground in the New River area. The National Weather Service said it could not yet confirm that the tornado had touched ground but was looking into…
Rare landspout tornado gusts through Phoenix in wild night of severe weather
Not even Dorothy or Toto noticed on Thursday evening in Phoenix, when a small tornado touched down in the metro area just after 5 p.m. Surprisingly, the tornado was a minor inconvenience in the face of the destructive winds and flooding rainfall that slammed the downtown area in the monsoonal deluge. Several wet microbursts wrought…