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By Cheryl K. from CherMyOpinion

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February 2, 2014

Have you ever seen a fire tornado? Film maker Chris Tangey was caught off guard by this amazing

phenomena when he had been out in Alice Springs, Australia, scouting locations for a new movie. He also

took some very amazing photos and a video of this once in a lifetime event that unfolded right before his

eyes. Watch that video here (Watch a video of the fire tornado.) Tangey told Northern Territory News, "It

sounded like a jet fighter going by, yet there wasn't a breath of wind where we were."

The world's first confirmed case of a fire tornado has been documented by Canberra researchers, using

evidence collected from the devastating 2003 Canberra bushfires. Lead researcher Rick McRae says the fire

tornado formed in the ranges west of Canberra before pushing into the city's suburbs.

"The one that we looked at showed that as it approached the edge of Canberra, its basal diameter was nearly

half a kilometer, and the damage indicates that the horizontal wind speeds around it were in excess of 250

kilometers per hour," he said.

So what causes a fire tornado? Fire whirls, also known as fire devils, fire tornadoes or firenados, are

whirlwinds of flame that may occur when intense heat and turbulent wind conditions combine to form

whirling eddies of air. These eddies can tighten into a tornado-like structure that sucks in burning debris

and combustible gases. The temperature inside the core of a fire tornado can reach up to 2,000 °F.

Here is another video of a fire tornado over Hungary (video)

Vortex of Hot Ash

Photograph by David McNew, Getty Images

A wildfire-induced tornado of hot ash dances across a ridgetop

near Rancho Santa Margarita, California, in May 2002.

More Videos of Fire Tornados

Catalyst: Fire Tornado - ABC TV Science

http://www.abc.net.au/catalyst/stories/3774941.htm

"Rare Footage of Fire Tornado". BBC. 25 Aug 2010

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An awe-struck filmmaker has told of the moment

he witnessed one of nature's rarest phenomena - a

fire tornado. Film maker Chris Tangey captures

rare picture of a fire tornado.

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/setting-the-world-on-fire-

stunning-pictures-of-rare-devil-tornado-

emerge.html#yGPzDmS

Really amazing!

I am happy with just seeing photos and videos. Don’t want a firsthand account of one of these things. Thank

you for reading1 Sources can be found below for your own research. –CherMyOpinion-

Sources of Information Included In this Article Posted by CherMyOpinion www.myopinionsowned.blogspot.com

http://www.wptv.com/dpp/news/world/fire-tornado-australian-outback-video-fiery-phenomenon-caught-on-video-by-chris-tangey-

goes-viral

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2204468/Pictured-The-frightening-FIRE-tornado-whirled-Australian-outback-40-

MINUTES.html

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-11-19/researchers-document-world-first-fire-tornado/4380252?WT.svl=news5

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_whirl#cite_note-2

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/110304-fire-tornado-picture-firenado-science-whirl-devil-budapest-hungary/

http://www.abc.net.au/catalyst/stories/3774941.htm

A fire tornado whirled above a burning plastic-processing plant during a huge conflagration

outside Budapest, Hungary 2011

Photograph by Viktor Veres, Blikk/Reuters

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/110304-fire-tornado-picture-firenado-science-

whirl-devil-budapest-hungary/

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