‘At any time there were three different tornadoes, it just kept going and going for 40 minutes.
‘The whole experience was staggering and the length and variety were astonishing.’
Predictably, these rare spectacles are extremely dangerous.
In 1923, a fire whirl emerged during Japan’s Great Kanto Earthquake and killed 38,000 people in just 15 minutes.
Put that fire devil over a lightning filled volcanic dust cloud . Imagine what would happen.
We would have a natural particle accelerator spewing ejecta and plasma out the other end.The business end would scour the earth around the volcano like a cosmic vacuum cleaner with a gargantuan arc welder inside.