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A video captured a tornado ripping through a shopping center parking lot in California over the weekend. The Santa Cruz Sentinel reported that the tornado in Scotts Valley on Saturday caused ...
Fire-tornadoes, also known as "firenados," are ripping through parts of Australia as the country continues to experience one of its worst fire seasons on record.. In one terrifying video posted by ...
A fire whirl, fire devil or fire tornado is a whirlwind induced by a fire and often (at least partially) composed of flame or ash.These start with a whirl of wind, often made visible by smoke, and may occur when intense rising heat and turbulent wind conditions combine to form whirling eddies of air.
Later in the video, Traversie says the tornado on the ground was south of Selfridge for about three minutes. Strong winds gusted throughout the more than nine minute-long clip, and the group drove ...
The terms fire whirl and fire tornado have often been used interchangeably to describe a vortex of any size or duration occurring in a wildfire. Only in recent years have scientists begun to distinguish types of vortices from one another, in particular highlighting the rare cases of actual pyro-tornadogenesis (or tornado formation during/due to ...
A rare tornado in Northern California on Saturday caused quite a bit of damage as the spiraling vortex flipped cars, damaged homes and businesses and left thousands without power.
The first documented case of a fire tornado in Australia was during the 2003 Canberra bushfire. [25] It was calculated to have horizontal winds of 250 km/h (160 mph) and vertical air speed of 150 km/h (93 mph), spawned by its own wind rotation from a pyrocumulonimbus cloud and causing the flashover of 120 hectares (300 acres) in 0.04 seconds ...
In late July in the midst of the record-breaking wildfire, a powerful spinning vortex emerged that rose 18,000 feet in the air, with wind speeds exceeding 143 mph, and lasted for an hour and a half.