Fire Tornadoes from a forest fire(Part3-Wall Cloud develops)

Rotating 'Wall cloud' structure lowers to the ground again after dissipation of the tornadic swirl. Fire fighters get word from teams closer to the fire that 'full grown trees were being uprooted'.
The fire tornadoes caused F3 like damage upon later investigations, flipping over cars of emergency teams that were abandoned due to the growing fire.
This is shot by an emergency team as fire fighters watch in disbelief. Fire fighters have died in these events before.

A fire whirl 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 effect of a 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.

AND THE WIKI SAYS :(To be taken with some reserve)
A fire whirl can make fires more dangerous, an extreme example is the 1923 Great Kantō 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.[1] Another example are the numerous large fire whirls (some tornadic) that developed after lightning struck an oil storage facility near San Luis Obispo, California on April 7, 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 in an environment that produced severe thunderstorms, in which the larger fire whirls carried debris 5 kilometers (3 mi) away
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_whirl

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[dcutbirt]

That looks more like a lot of smoke.

[SilentVillainPro]

This probably formed a pyrocumulus which is a large cumulus cloud formed by the convection column on a wildfire. Usually when these form the convection column starts to rotate creating its own weather. The worst for wildfires. Pyrocumulus have even been known to produce lightning.

[AJTwister97]

this is an example of a tornadic fire whirl

[papper]

I worked this fire. For at least a week the fire would build an immense weather system above the fire creating "clouds" of smoke. Around 1500 hours each day the system would collapse down on itself spreading the fire our on the ground. I was in the division covering this dry (at that time) lake. I witnessed grown trees uprooted that were thown on the ground. Makes no difference to me if there are people who think this weather system is not strong. I saw it at less that 70 yards.

[RiverDogTav]

This is the 2002 Missionary Ridge Fire outside of Durango Colorado. These are in fact tornadoes, created by the rotation of the plume. These tornadoes snapped of ponderosa pine stems several feet in diameter & toppled and set fire to vehicles parked in the "safe zone" in the dry lake bed of Vallecito reservoir. 1,706 fire fighters worked the fire. By the time the fire ended, it had consumed over 70,000 acres, destroyed 56 homes and had tragically claimed the life of one firefighter.

[DeCampis]

This is what the indians would call a "communications disruption"...

[mrmime1231]

wow that tornado is weak as hell

[marksIItimewarps]

If I were a Kamikaze pilot, I'd fly through that thing! There are many things you don't want to miss before you die and this is one of it!

[carjakers]

wow

[ncuxap12444]

jesus fuck, poor trees

[OneWeirdDude]

it can in snow