Tornado warning issued in area north of Fresno, National Weather Service says

The National Weather Service in Hanford issued a tornado warning Saturday in Mariposa County.

The warning extended to areas of Midpines and Bootjack, northeast of Fresno County. The weather service tweeted at 3:50 p.m. that the tornado warning was in effect until 4:15 p.m.

The warning also brought threats of quarter-sized hail, the weather service said. Roughly 8,500 people were potentially exposed to the tornado threat, including nine schools and a hospital.

A Twitter user shared an image of dark clouds with one string of cloud pointed down, like a funnel cloud. The user, Ryan Kinnett, wrote that the image was taken near Chowchilla.

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This story was originally published February 2, 2019 at 4:19 PM.