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Flame Tornado Under certain conditions, usually depending on air temperature and currents, flames can acquire a certain vortex shape and forma whirl, making it look like a tornado. Fire tornadoes can either be vortices separated from the main body of flame, burn within the area, or just a vortex of flame by itself. Notable fire whirls are the one produced by an earthquake in Japan on 1923, killing 38,000 in 15 minutes. Another one is the fire whirl that developed after lightning struck an oil storage facility in California in 1926. Usually however fire tornadoes result from wildfires.
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chaserman,it appears that you intend to publish an ongoing scrapbook of text copied and pasted from elsewhere without attribution and without using the the Highlight Tool. I also notice that it links to a website that is currently spamming every weather discussion group around with advertising for itself. I've had to reject the spam and boot the author from my listserv.
This is really spam to advertise a website, and like your tornado piece that announced a massive tornado as though it were news, is only chum for the website. Please check out the Newsroom to read up on what makes news, news on Now Public.