Fire Tornado

A fire tornado is typically spawned in the presence of vast wildfires. The large area of burning rapidly heats the air above it, and starts a convection process. Winds converging on the fire then provide for the vortex of flame to shoot up. Most fire tornadoes are only about 100 feet tall, and a few feet wide. The hot air rising from a wild fire, if large enough, can form pyrocumulus cloud, a thunderhead like cloud. If this cloud provides a strong enough updraft, the small whirl of fire can start to look like a more conventional tornado, and become quite large.













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