happening now a powerful winter storm is triggering severe weather across central California earlier this evening a tornado warning was issued near the Raymond area of Madera County we've received multiple videos of funnel clouds near Raymond and Madera some viewers reported the tornado touched down at binda elementary school in the Madera Acres area and now the National Weather Service confirms that it is classifying it as a tornado this video shows the damage left behind there at the campus [Music] and this is more video from binda elementary you can hear the cries of the startled children in
the background this was recorded by Jessica Flores you can also see all of the down trees and damaged fences in front of the school we're told parents received a text alert to pick up their children while students were taken to the cafeteria for their safety and advised to stay away from Windows again the National Weather Service confirms this was in fact a tornado that appears to have briefly touched down and may have caused all that damage
