Philippe Papin
@pppapin
Extreme #fire behavior with the #CreekFire continuing this evening. From the KHNX radar, there was an anticyclonic velocity couplet w/ 116 mph gate to gate shear at 0314 UTC. Such a signature is often associated with a #tornado scale vortex.
https://twitter.com/pppapin/status/1302458447640829953
There’s a huge pyrocumulus cloud of smoke. It’s over 100 degrees here, and no relief in sight at all. No Air tankers can fly due to the smoke. They sent in an Air National Guard helicopter tonight to rescue injured people from Mammoth Reservoir.
I live about 85 miles away in the same mountains and it’s pretty scary.