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firew worlds that form on your average
fire you see them for a few seconds and
they're gone and normally they don't
prompt too much concern but the biggest
ones literally fire tornadoes cannot be
ignored scientists used to think they
were rare even unlikely but as megafires
become more common that is no longer the
case 3 months before the camp fir
this is what happens in Reading
California the car mega fire spawns a
deadly fire tornado that generates winds
approaching 165
mph but what causes the Flames to start
spinning wow this here is a firew world
generator it's an apparatus that allows
us to study how firew worlds form and
the structure of the vortex that's
produced inside the
World Mark finny says they begin with
turbulent strong winds that send a
lopsided current of air into the
Flames he demonstrates what happens next
you'll notice at the beginning that the
Flames are very disorganized but as the
inflow begins to come in in a swirling
fashion the Flames themselves become
quite
organized the air streams in faster and
faster from the bottom Fanning the
Flames strengthening the world the
burning rate of the fuel increases by 3
to eight times as the world begins to
develop the fire tornado in Reading
develops after the wind starts blowing
Inland from the
Pacific when it collides with the fire
it creates powerful swirling winds all
the ingredients of an epic fire tornado
are now in
place this was ranked as a ef3 enhanced
fueta scale tornado
I believe this is the strongest
documented fire induced
tornado temperatures reach
27° F hot enough to melt steel it lasts
for 30
minutes we saw things like pipes wrapped
around trees flipped over cars power
lines that were broken off from 90ft
towers that were taken down the winds to
do that are extreme