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ohiosmith (22,453 posts) Sat Mar 16, 2013, 11:59 AMYou call that a tornado? This is a tornado!after which a youtube thingamajig of a burning (on fire) tornado
In_The_Wind (37,308 posts) Sat Mar 16, 2013, 12:01 PM1. Awesome!
Demo_Chris (1,597 posts) Sat Mar 16, 2013, 12:14 PM2. Being Australia, it was likely poisonous as well
a la izquierda (7,194 posts) Sat Mar 16, 2013, 12:23 PM3. That place scares the crap out of me. I have major arachnophobia.
talkingmime (826 posts) Sat Mar 16, 2013, 01:18 PM6. Forget the spiders. It's the snakes you need to be afraid of.
Arugula Latte (39,263 posts) Sat Mar 16, 2013, 01:27 PM7. and the box jellyfish ... and the crocs ... and the stone fish ... and the sharks ... and the cassowary ... and the blue-ringed octopus ... and the scorpions ...
Scuba (25,153 posts) Sat Mar 16, 2013, 12:45 PM5. If you think this is a good thing, thank big oil.
olddots (362 posts) Sat Mar 16, 2013, 01:34 PM8. YIKESthis blows away so many crappy disaster film's special effects and its real .
Sekhmets Daughter (5,184 posts) Sat Mar 16, 2013, 01:57 PM9. A glimpse of hell...courtesy of the Outback. Fire terrifies me...
Arugula Latte (39,263 posts)
A fire whirl, colloquially fire devil or fire tornado, is a phenomenon in which a fire, under certain conditions (depending on air temperature and currents), acquires a vertical vorticity and forms a whirl, or a tornado-like vertically oriented rotating column of air. Fire whirls may be whirlwinds separated from the flames, either within the burn area or outside it, or a vortex of flame, itself. Most of the largest fire whirls are spawned from wildfires. They form when a warm updraft and convergence from the wildfire are present. They are usually 10-50 meters tall, a few meters wide, and last only a few minutes. However, some can be more than a kilometer tall, contain winds over 160 km/h, and persist for more than 20 minutes. Fire whirls can uproot trees up to 15 metres (49 ft) tall. These can also aid the 'spotting' ability of wildfires to propagate and start new fires as they loft burning materials such as tree bark. These burning embers can be blown away from the fireground by the stronger winds aloft.
During the 2003 Canberra bushfires, a fire tornado with a diameter of nearly 500 metres with horizontal winds exceeding 250 kph was documented. Further research into the fires confirmed this in 2012. In this major Canberra fire wind damage consistent with an F3 tornado on the Fujita Scale was observed in addition to the fire damage Another extreme example of a fire tornado from other than a vegetation fire is the 1923 Great KantÅ earthquake in Japan which ignited a large city-sized firestorm and produced a gigantic fire whirl that killed 38,000 in fifteen minutes in the Hifukusho-Ato region of Tokyo. Another example is the numerous large fire whirls (some tornadic) that developed after lightning struck an oil storage facility near San Luis Obispo, California on 7 April 1926, several of which produced significant structural damage well away from the fire, killing two. Thousands of whirlwinds were produced by the four-day-long firestorm coincident with conditions that produced severe thunderstorms, in which the larger fire whirls carried debris 5 kilometers away.
I'm still waiting for nadin's input. Being as she's the inventor of fire and a trained historian, surely she knows all about these things.
You know, I haven't seen the fat short bitch for a couple, three, days on Skins's island now.I wonder if she's checking out a hot story down in Ensenada.
