Australia’s Fire Vortex: The Catastrophic Mix Of Bushfire And Tornado
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- Опубликовано: 11 сен 2024
- Catalyst: Fire Tornado - Tracking the spread of the deadly 2003 bushfires in Australia's Capital Territory
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In January 2003, the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) and the outskirts of Canberra were ignited by lightning strikes, yet nothing could prepare the inhabitants of the Australian capital for the extent of the devastation that awaited them. Scientists and emergency services were baffled by how the fires, which break out fairly regularly in the Australian summer, could reach such catastrophic levels. Anja Taylor reports on the proof researchers have now found to explain how the deadly combination of tornado and bushfire carved a path of destruction throughout the ACT.
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Leave it to Australia to create a *tornadic* pyrocumulus cloud.
I remember watching Mount Taylor burn twice that day. The first was a ground fire that took about 60 minutes or so to go from one end of the Mountain to the other. The second was a fire tornado which took about 3/4 minutes. Scariest thing I've seen.
I think you're misremembering things there dude. We were up Mount Taylor taking photos when we saw the fire tornado coming in and got the fuck outta dodge. It was the fire tornado that set the place on fire.
This is in fact not the first fire tornado. There was a fire here in Minnesota USA in 1894, "The Great Hinckley Fire," that exploded just south of the town when two large fires converged into one and created a storm that decimated roughly 1,000 square km in only four hours. Over logging, an unusually dry summer, and unregulated farming and railroad activity culminated in 5 obliterated towns and between 450-600 dead in those few hours. Look it up, it's pretty horrifying, and this video definitely helps put visual perspective to that pre-movie era.
Although she did say never documented... so maybe I should pay attention to detail. :P
I think that a similar lee effect on Mount Lofty and the Piccadilly Valley in the Adelaide Hills may have occurred on Ash Wednesday 1993. I have heard different accounts of how the fire driven by a strong north westerly wind hit Mount Lofty it jumped several km in "fireball" where it reignited in a vineyard and continued through to Bridgewater.
the conditions that brought on the catastrophe sound exactly as they were this tuessday..37 degrees, dry as hell except the breeze coming from the west change direction and went south east and the fires really spread quick
very similar pattern to the South Canyon fire in Colorado, 1994. The fire suddenly moved across the lee side of the mountain.
I seen about ten kangaroos hopping as fast as they could away from the tornado and about 15 meters before the flames hit them they exploded in mid air that's how hot and quick it was moving
Struth mate, bonza strory, faredinkum mate.
10:14 The comparison to a small atomic bomb may not be an exaggeration.
We get a lot of those in Southern California fire. Google California Firenado.
it is set on fire by Bandera, I saw with my own eyes.
They burnin yall shit up to get to the ancient ruins and graves. Or sumthin like that. Really. ✌🏽
My mum could see the fire though one of are windows
I was stuck in the middle of it.
NSW firefighters would of stopped that shit