Great Footage of a Fire Whirl in an Arizona Wildland Fire
Turn your Volume DOWN.First,I'd like to apologize for all of America for the ear piercing headache inducing narrative.I have no idea why this Country Fried Hillbilly finds himself in Arizona. This is NOT what Arizonians sound like.You'd be pretty damn hard-pressed to hear this accent in the Deepest part of the US South.
This is NOT a Fire Tornado.While it may indeed carry some of the same visual characteristics,it is a Fire Whirl.It's a rarely captured 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.The internal temperatures of these fire whirls can exceed 1500 degrees F.(Wiki)
This appears to be the Horseshoe 2 Fire.Information on this fire can be found here:
http://www.inciweb.org/incident/2225
This is NOT a Fire Tornado.While it may indeed carry some of the same visual characteristics,it is a Fire Whirl.It's a rarely captured 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.The internal temperatures of these fire whirls can exceed 1500 degrees F.(Wiki)
This appears to be the Horseshoe 2 Fire.Information on this fire can be found here:
http://www.inciweb.org/incident/2225
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