Fire tornado: how bushfires create their own weather
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- Опубликовано: 5 июн 2013
- Australian researchers now have proof that a devastating fire tornado carved a path of destruction during the Canberran bushfires in 2003.
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I will never forget this time. I had three kids under 3 and we were living in Chapman at the time. It was crazy scary
I was 5, I remember I was watching the wiggles in the afternoon, my parents had closed the blinds, but I opened them and the sky was black.
I remember seeing the fires in Tuggeranong down by pine island, I'll never forget that day.
@@toys7198 haha you got traumatised
1:01 "Holy shit."
crazyriders83 OML I feel bad for laughing at that but 😂😂😂
Hey... You don't Say
This is an actual fire tornado. The other videos you'll see with this label are actually just whirlwinds in a fire.
You mean tornado caugh on fire
Michael Garcia the wind not a regular tornado went into a fire the fire grew into a tornado push together and fire tornado
They are actually plasma weapons and our government especially the American government can control the weather. Its not climate change. Its climate control. You believe what you want. The truth is so out in the open only a complete fool couldn't see it
@@dylantyt6654 nope, we are not complete fool. Nobody asked.
I lived in Flynn my whole life, and when this was happening, red embers were flying through the air, and into my yard, all the way from the other side of Canberra... It was scary af
Quote: "much more savage than an ordinary fire-storm".
Not that an ordinary fire-storm is exactly ho-hum, mind you.
I read that line the exact time I heard it in the video. Woah...
+Arkadia Moon
Australians ;)
In comparison, yes...it is. A normal wildfire burns at less than 400 °C . A monster like this is capable of melting aluminum (wich melts at 660,3 °C) like yesterday in Greece.
Experiencing conditions like this firsthand is incredibly terrifying. I havent seen a Firenado, but i've seen a firestorm, where the sun just gets blotted out, and the wind starts picking up, and you hear a huge roaring, snapping sound of a wall of flame approaching.
Well to be honest, dying in a fire tornado is a rather gnarly way to go. Sure beats choking on a ham sandwich, or suffering a heart attack while taking a dump.
Try telling that to a portuguese...or greek...
Mama Cass and Elvis might disagree
How about having a heart attack while taking the dump resulting from a ham sandwich directly into a fire tornado?
@@PedroAfonso1967 what do you mean
hey man, I told you that in confidence! you're just never gonna let me live that one down, are you?
I remember seeing part of that smoke cloud (10:12) before midday from the suburb where I live in Pearce behind Mt Taylor when i was out walking my dog. Later around 3pm during the height of the firestorm, to the southwest of the mountain i saw a dark greyish cloud and several flashes together with a roaring noise similar to a tornado...I thought the flashes may have been an explosion from a substation/powerlines or something. Not long after a helicopter was flying low over the suburb. The sky started turning red. Half an hour later the mountain was engulfed in flames. There was a convoy of fire trucks from NSW with lights and sirens heading up the street to the houses that were close to the mountain.
ATS T. There are too many anomalies seen in these fires to subscribe them to “natural phenomemona.” Check out Mental Boost channel.
ATS T. My parents were in Canberra when the fire happened
I was in kambah
during the firebombing of Dresden in WWII, the concentration of the incendiaries created heat so intense that it started a firestorm. It sucked the oxygen out of the cellars where people had taken refuge. Smoldering coal emitted carbon monoxide asphyxiating more people. There are witness accounts of trees, furniture (and people) being sucked through the streets and into the center of the firestorm. The city was packed with refugees fleeing from the Soviet armies moving into Germany from the east. Best estimates say that around 35,000 people died
This is so sad for people that died in this video.I feel sad for them and I’m sad for all the animals that are in the bush.
Who would win:
Several very detailed houses built with the best constructors around or a hot twirly thing.
Catalyst has become my source for cool videos and information ever since the Discovery Channel went downhill. Thank you so much, ABC!
6:40 I thought the sky was blue! NOPE it's red now!😂😂😂
The largest fire tornado ever seen in the US just happened in Northern California last week. When the wildfire near Redding started, the winds in the area were calm. But the hot summer record breaking temperatures reached 113 degrees f, and the rapidly combusting wildfire soon formed a large plume and then a thunder head cumulus cloud, and then a fire tornado that reached up to 18,000 feet elevation. The fire chief said that he has never seen anything like that in his over 20 years fighting wildfires. He said the fire spread faster and more erratically than anything he ever witnessed before. It would appear that this frightening phenomena will be an increasingly common nightmare going forward due to climate change - with the hotter temperatures and drier drought-damaged vegetation creating the conditions for super fire storms like this.
That's not the same type of fire tornado that's happening in this video. That's called a fire whirl but people incorrectly call it a fire tornado. A fire tornado comes down from a supercell thunderstorm that was created from smoke condensing in the troposphere. The fire tornado in the video actually has no fire in it. It is like a classic tornado. So essentially the fire is creating ash and smoke that then creates its own weather system. A fire whirl is just a spin of fire within the actual fire. Much more basic than this video.
@@gregbrophy5781 What should we do chicken little?
Burn acreage today is a tiny fraction of what it used to be just a hundred years ago .
Thanks for posting, it's absolutely fascinating. I'm from the UK and we don't now a lot about forest fires or bush fires etc. If anything happened here even remotely like this it would be a masacre.
You guys good with flooding? We hav tornado alarms in Oklahoma
A tornado in the uk seems very unlikely
@@davidarruda8400 They happen a fair bit, actually. The UK records the highest number of tornadoes per square kilometre of any country.
When I fought fire for the USFS and USBLM in 1979 and 1980 we saw similar things. Also, in our studies of fire weather, firenado's were discussed. The Carr Fire near Redding CA sure looked like a firenado to me. I've seen one up close back in 1980. None of us were surprised as to be a firefighter we had to study fire weather.
That's crazy! Fire tornadoes! New to me. Yikes!
we saw that fire for like a week, just burning out in the distance... One day my crew of skaters went to western creek for a skate comp. western creek was forefront of those fires. on the way we didnt see the fires much, we stopped by a skate shop in a mall. and the lights in the whole place where flashing off and on again. we were like "That is weird" we got to the skatepark and smoke started to build. all of a sudden over the hill came a massive firefront taking everything around us. my friend was dying from smoke and asthma, we couldn't move because of the fires. we finally got out. on the way there were cars half burnt with people in them crying. the sky went black. we drove back passed that mall. everyone outside had no idea what hit. it looked like the apocalypse so people were crying. we got out safe. people died around us that day. we were lucky.
...only in Australia...
1WildlandFirefighter yeah that true but there is something about the bushfires in Australia that make them the fiercest fires in the world
Not to mention eucalyptus trees explode in bushfires but yes you guys do have fierce bushfires as well
1WildlandFirefighter oiji
Cosmo Illenberger fuckin' straya
Wait only Australia?
Hell on steroids
Axel Cordova more like hell -90
Australia really wants to kill people
Well now i know what hell looks like.
Wow look how nice the fire made the land. It needed that. All these nice nutrients for the soil! To bad the houses were in the way.
I cant believe this could be possible :(
Yes it can! If u watch into the storm it haves a fire Tornado in it and also haves like a tornado over 2miles wide and winds over 300mph. ( it's a movie )
these are storms of destruction and they are scary
I live in tornado ally.
I have yet to hear one of these in the States. That thing must be fucking scary
2018 and 2020 have had these occur in California
On that same day at Chipping Norton Lake in western Sydney a small tornado/waterspout crossed over Chipping Norton Lake.
During the London blitz there was a particularly savage firebombing that produced a firestorm and, in a couple of witness accounts, there were fire tornadoes. Not to mention firebombings elsewhere during the war. I guess they never thought that they would occur from a natural weather event.
thx for sharing
Tornados can turn into fire tornados it's hell
"Fire Tornadoes don't exist... according to literature".
Yet they have been documented as early as the 1950's and were discussed in Bushfires in Australia (Luke and McArthur).
+Luis Barrios Not to mention being documented in the western US as far back as the 1920's.
+Luis Barrios These are "Fire whirls" not legitimate convective tornadoes.
Such as a firenado that lofted a home 150ft in the air and killed two people in SoCal 1926?
They’ve been documented since 1871 and earlier.
can't underestimate wild fires anymore
go go go go dont wanna get burned by the firnado!
Holy crap that’s scary luckily I live where none of that freaking stuff happens at.
Nobody is immune
@@donnielee8556 👂👂👂👂👏👏👏👏
@@donnielee8556 i live on the ocean
Holy mackerel
Woah that’s huge
Firenado FTW
Even today thats simply baffling. All these ground breaking fire behaviours created supercell thunderstorms of the intensity mainly seen in the US and having lived in Canberra 15 years I've never seen a supercell that was that strong
I’m in 2020 and I’m 10 feeling I’m gonna die 😭😭😭 PLEASE SAVE CANBERRA
The day Mother Nature said, "A wildfire just isn't enough, I'll just throw a tornado in there for good measure. Aussies are tough. Have at it fellas."
Based on the damage, it looks like an F2 or F3, maybe even a mid level F4.
It was something I've never seen before it was worse then hell
Read Stephen Pynes A History of Fire in Australia, he talks about this stuff in the historical record going back centuries
Fire tornadoes are not unknown, they simply haven't been able to be documented in such a scientific way. Here say and 2nd hand documenting was the past experience...
These fires didn't happen before 1788. The aboriginal people didn't allow fuel loads to get like this.
Kids. We're going to Hell's Kitchen.
God bless them all.
"shit" isn't an explicit word any more? Maybe cos the guy said "holy".
straya
Words are just a collection of phonemes. No need to get your panties in a bunch over certain ones.
My family lived through that hell
look at what was done to Dresden in '45, same dynamics
Nope. Not the same at all. Those whirls of fire in the Dresden fires grew from the ground up.
HOLY FIRE!!!
my dumbass: "wow I never knew there was such a big fire in D.C."
Makes a good BF1 Picture with specks of fire
There might have just been another occurrence of this kind of fire in Canada. some aftermath footage is peculiar. The one thing ruling(and the likely cause) is the fact Canada is cold, and there are gas lines everywhere(that could explode and also blow apart buildings, toss cars, and flatten trees). However at the time there was also a large PyroThunderstorm and dozens of lightning strikes and a giant smoke cloud similar if not larger than the one at the 10:15 mark
They got caught up in a wizard battle wtf
Oh my GOD
I like your video
That thing was cool
So cool
Err not if you were there at the time Zachary. It was bloody scary.
I don't think the rest of the world realise how bad we get bush fires :(
Don't they have medicine for that?
Brooke Forrest OMG BUSH FIRES THATS JUST SO FUNNY OMG XD LOL
No! I do and that's why I am staying the hell out of Australia.
Trust me, we know...
7 Years Later:
Kinda annoying people can't tell the difference between fire tornado and fire whirl. Only good source on real fire tornadoes I've found in a while.
Oh my god tornados
Could you imagine being hit by a F1+ tornado that's a few hundred to a thousand degrees? Then you consider how the flames would swirl around at 80+ mph that can rip houses apart exposing people to the truly horrifying death coming their way
I was evacuated as well
What wouldn't I give to see a fire tornado...
THE WHOLE CITY'S ON FIRE!
It was and I wasn't even a year old yet
hey, at least that tornado wasn't carrying a car
well, this explains my feeling that one of the houses I found a mulch fire going on the Tuesday afterwards (in Colhoun st Kambah, off behind the big tree to the right of the tornado) had more burned trees in the backyard than holes they came out of . . . . or to quote my now 28 year old son . . Armageddon is here, now. we were under that . . . stuff.
Devastating and awesome, devastatingly awesome?
wow
This is actually explained by science.
I feel bad for Rick McRae😪😪😪😪
I was there
I was too :) Incredible isn't it - watching this I keep asking myself, how did we survive?
and in 2020 the nightmare starts again 🥺
What is that strongest fire nado or storm
You have to be Australian to fully understand... The amount of natural disasters here...
Can’t wait for this to happen in CO in 2060
WOW 😲
that's hellll
4:21 tell me what you think that looks like...
tbh i kinda pictured a severed SpongeBob arm.
I was waiting to see if any trees were snapped off above the ground , clear indicator of tornado damage. Usually trees are twisted off 15 to twenty feet above the ground but this is a different phenomenon and simaler damage with variations compared to normal tornadoes are understandable.
RUN!!
Wow
I'm happy that we don't have tornados here lol I would be crying my eyes out😣
I remember my parents house was nearly hit from this I’m pretty sure.
So that was the day when was super super super super hot outside that’s when the fire tornado happened oh yeah I forgot I saw a fire tornado near me yeah
Yeap...Australia is out of my visiting list!!!! 😱
Nah, really this place is great. I live in Canberra and love Australia in general. You're more likely to die in a car crash than die in a bush fire ahah
Fire everything in Australia. If u live in Australia u should be used to it. Every year there is a massive fire. I live in Australia and its like a part of Australia.
Yes I love living in Australia but I don’t get why just us? We get fire everything.
ZoomgamerZahi - Minecraft & Roblox and MORE! We had a fire tornado here in hawai'i 7 years ago.
It isnt just Australia. They has an F4 strength fire tornado in california couple years ago
Fire tornado🔥
cool fire tornado🌆
Crisis City anyone?
Where was captain planet.
Beware the whirlwind within the firestorm.
Im not sure how true it is but aparently in ww2 this happened in air raids
Omygosh..........
Damn nature, you scary. What they said about pine trees is wrong. An EF0-EF1 tornado snapped off pine trees in my town.
it looks like a big tornados was there in the city i think they all might be okay
THATS A BIG BOI LOL
Man, I thought that tornadoes were uniquely North American. I can see that I was BIG TIME WRONG.
+Dave LaBelle Tornadoes are unique to North America, but bushfires are unique to Australia. It just so happens that both disasters happen on both continents.
+Brandan Lee doesn't that make them not unique?
D Rainer Well no, people associate tornadoes with the US because of Tornado Alley, but people know that bushfires are extremely prone to Australia as bushfires are part of the Australian climate. When you think of tornadoes, where do you think of?? And when you think of droughts and bushfires, where do you think of?
That's what I'm saying. I know they happen in both countries, it's just that tornadoes are more prone in America and bushfires are more prone in Australia due to Australia's very dry climate.
Cool :3
Has anyone seen the footage on the Portugal bush fire and the recent US fires they are reporting the same tornado and vicious fires? Does anyone know if there were any reports of blue bolts of lightning or similar blue glows like power substations when the buzz out? It may be an idea for someone in relation to this fore to pay great attention to worldwide bushfires as there just may be some patterns in observations. The blue electrical or lighting bolts seem the big thing to ask about but the tornado is also present as well as trees burning from the inside out. Also talked about was calm weather then winds from nowhere!
You may want to do some research into fire science, extreme fire behavior and world wide fire history.
Knowing the extreme fire behaviors that have taken place decades ago is incredibly important as it can then tell you if the extreme fire behavior that you observe is typical for an extreme wind driven fire.
The winds did not start out of no where. We were already under red flag conditions for strong diablo winds with low RH.
Trees burning from the inside out is actually quite common for wildland fires.
Blue flashes are powerlines arcing in the wind, power lines down on the ground, transformers exploding, etc...
Research.
I'm late to the party here but some basic research would answer all your questions.
Original fire started weeks ago in bushland from lightening strike.
There are no substations in the middle of nowhere.
Gums trees burn outside in, the heavy bark goes first. But they have a habit of burning internally. So even if the outside is out they burn internally for upto weeks. Leading to flare ups.
The ACT is surrounded by a lot of pine trees as well. When pine trees burn the sap boils giving them a tendency to explode into flames as seen in the US fires. Plus being a softwood they burn very quickly and easily.
"firewhirls" their called firewhirls often made up of flame and ash formed when whirlwinds and fire collide
Not in this case.
Wouldn't even make a decent Sydney barbecue.
Here's an inquiry: If we have weather forecasting that can estimate the weather at least a week ahead, surely they would have known that there were hot and dry days ahead, with obviously the 18th turning up the heat. Surely days before when the fire was "controllable", they could have done something instead of waiting for the fire to come to them. Therefore, if they had known that catastrophic fire danger was coming in the days ahead, how come it wasn't until the actual day when the fire hit when action was taken.
I know it was difficult to access the fire with trucks, but helicopters could have water-bombed the fire in its early days, when it was controllable.
Just a thought.
That's assuming they had the resources and weren't already trying to.
1.Controllable doesn't mean extinguishable. Normally, in Australia, the sheer amount of fire that sweeps across the countryside each summer means the resources were likely being used elsewhere. It was really far from settlements when it started, so it probably wasn't of high priority.
2. And since fire are important to the Australian ecosystem, maybe they have wanted it to burn through much of the area to avoid having another fire spark around there at a less opportune time, as one probably would.
3. The sheer speed at which the fire began moving took everyone by surprise and no-one had EVER seen a fire tornado like that before. It was unheard of! Science didn't even know if it could happen!
Brandan Lee Armchair quarterback.
There was a whole lot of forest in the Molongolo Valley district that the government had been wanting to clear so they could build a new suburb. The fire came through and wiped out this forest, and later two new suburbs Coombs and Wright popped up in that area. Just a thought.
April Mills Makes you think that governments may not be as innocent as you think.