{"id":929234,"date":"2021-10-27T16:58:48","date_gmt":"2021-10-27T20:58:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=929234"},"modified":"2021-10-27T16:58:50","modified_gmt":"2021-10-27T20:58:50","slug":"fact-check-does-this-photo-show-a-tornado-in-wasco-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-does-this-photo-show-a-tornado-in-wasco-california\/","title":{"rendered":"FACT CHECK: Does This Photo Show A Tornado In Wasco, California?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffact-check-does-this-photo-show-a-tornado-in-wasco-california%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=929234&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>An image <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo.php?fbid=4783543258343185&amp;set=a.213489695348587&amp;type=3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shared on Facebook<\/a> over 350 times purportedly shows a tornado that touched down in Wasco, California, on Oct. 25.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Verdict: False<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The photo shows a tornado that touched down near Yates City, Illinois, in 2010, not Wasco in 2021.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Fact Check:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo.php?fbid=4783543258343185&amp;set=a.213489695348587&amp;type=3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">image<\/a> shows a tornado touching down in a field lined with trees. \u201cWasco 17:09 October 25th, 2021,\u201d reads the image\u2019s caption. The user who shared the photo clarified in the comment section that she was referring to Wasco, California, a small city with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.census.gov\/quickfacts\/wascocitycalifornia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">population<\/a> of approximately 28,000 people. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2021\/09\/03\/fact-check-three-tornados-virginia-tech\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Does This Image Show A String Of Three Tornadoes Over Virginia Tech?)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>While a tornado warning was, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NWSHanford\/status\/1452777318338883585?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">verified Twitter<\/a> account of the National Weather Service (NWS) in Hanford, in effect in parts of Kern County, the county that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kerncounty.com\/home\/showpublisheddocument\/1718\/637187555172030000\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">encompasses<\/a> Wasco, on Oct. 25, there do not appear to be any confirmed reports of a tornado actually touching down. Check Your Fact searched the NWS of Hanford\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=tornado%20%20(from%3ANWSHanford)&amp;src=typed_query&amp;f=live\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Twitter account<\/a>, as well as local media outlets such as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wascotrib.com\/search\/tornado\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wasco Tribune<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kget.com\/?s=tornado&amp;submit=Search\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">KGET.com<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.turnto23.com\/search?q=tornado\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">23ABC News Bakersfield<\/a>, but found nothing about a tornado touching down in the area.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere were NOT any reports of a tornado touching down,\u201d said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kake.com\/story\/45056039\/yosemite-falls-is-flowing-again-thanks-to-that-major-storm-that-walloped-the-drought-choked-us-west\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jerald Meadows<\/a>, the meteorologist in charge at the NWS office in Hanford, in an email to Check Your Fact. \u201cHowever, there were several reports of funnel clouds that came close. There is a small chance that a funnel could have briefly touched down but again there have been NO confirmed reports or damage seen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A reverse image search reveals the photo in question actually shows a tornado that struck near Yates City, Illinois, on June 5, 2010. It can be found on a section of the NWS\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.weather.gov\/ilx\/5jun10-tor\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">website<\/a> dedicated to tornado activity in central Illinois on June 5, 2010, with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.weather.gov\/images\/ilx\/Events\/2010-06-05_Tornadoes\/Yates_City_Tor_0225_ILX_2.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">citation<\/a> that states it was captured by Jarrod Cook near Yates City that day. The same image can also be found on <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:AbingdonTornado.JPG\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wikipedia<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This is not the first time misinformation about tornadoes has spread on social media. In September, <a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2021\/09\/03\/fact-check-three-tornados-virginia-tech\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Check Your Fact<\/a> debunked a viral image that claimed to show a string of three tornadoes over Virginia Tech on Aug. 31.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An image shared on Facebook over 350 times purportedly shows a tornado that touched down in Wasco, California, on Oct. 25.Verdict: False The photo shows a tornado that touched down &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-929234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=929234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929234\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=929234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=929234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=929234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}