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A ‘fire tornado’ warning? Weather service issues what could be a first at California blaze
Sacramento Bee ^ | Aug 15 2020 | VINCENT MOLESKI

Posted on 08/15/2020 6:11:00 PM PDT by rintintin

The Reno office of the National Weather Service warned Northern California of a fiery tornado Saturday afternoon that had sprung up near a large, fast-moving wildfire in the Sierra.

That’s right: A firenado.

It is the first known issuance of a tornado warning for the climate phenomenon since it burst into California’s consciousness during the deadly Carr Fire in 2018.

Read more here: https://www.sacbee.com/news/weather-news/article244993335.html#storylink=cpy

(Excerpt) Read more at sacbee.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: California
KEYWORDS: localnews; sharkweek
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To: mad_as_he$$

Where you located


21 posted on 08/15/2020 6:35:07 PM PDT by easternsky
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To: easternsky

Can PM if more comfortable with that


22 posted on 08/15/2020 6:36:09 PM PDT by easternsky
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To: easternsky

Red Rock.


23 posted on 08/15/2020 6:37:33 PM PDT by mad_as_he$$
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To: mad_as_he$$

Thanks, Praying for all in area


24 posted on 08/15/2020 6:39:52 PM PDT by easternsky
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To: rintintin

Here is a video showing the phenomenon in Australia.

https://youtu.be/lsyvOYcWgcg


25 posted on 08/15/2020 6:40:27 PM PDT by JerseyDvl ("If you're going through hell, keep going.")
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To: rintintin
Great Hinckley Firestorm of 1893 in Minnesota had firenados. Caused by widespread logging leftover brush and a drought. A museum mural...


26 posted on 08/15/2020 6:49:46 PM PDT by polymuser (A socialist is a communist without the power to take everything from their citizens...yet.)
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To: mad_as_he$$

Do you keep an evacuation list? I made one after we were told to evacuate in 20 minutes by the fire Marshall here in Paradise Valley Montana. We were away from our home for 6 days, not knowing what we would return to. The fire was tornandic in nature that it hopped scotch people’s property. Stay safe my friend


27 posted on 08/15/2020 6:57:04 PM PDT by BigSkyVic
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To: polymuser

The Peshtigo Wildfire in Wisconsin killed between 1500 and 2500 people.


28 posted on 08/15/2020 6:58:06 PM PDT by Colt1851Navy (What was wrong with Nixon?)
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To: rintintin

This is DEW weapons from Planet Nibaru and the Nephilim..or maybe it’s just the Macedonian’s. What happened? :^)


29 posted on 08/15/2020 7:06:58 PM PDT by Karliner (Heb 4:12 Rom 8:28 Rev 3, "...This is the end of the beginning." Churchill)
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To: rintintin

The Carr fire in Redding CA had a tornado in it, so this would not be the first. In the area the tornado, or firenado if that is what we call it, was stripped bare. In the middle of scortched earth there was no ash left, no black at all. Stuff harpooned into bare trees, all the sights of a normal tornado only burnt to the ground all around. So eerie that there was no black soot along the path of the tornado.


30 posted on 08/15/2020 7:33:29 PM PDT by walkingdead (We are sacrificing America's youth on the altar of our own fear. And it is a travesty.)
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To: rintintin

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.sciencenewsforstudents.org/article/californias-carr-fire-spawned-true-fire-tornado/amp

What’s scarier than a tornado? How about a tornado made of fire? On July 26, 2018, the so-called Carr Fire outside Redding, Calif., spawned the strongest tornado in state history: a fire tornado, or firenado.

This rare and terrifying phenomenon was only the second true fire tornado in recorded history — and the first witnessed in the United States.


31 posted on 08/15/2020 7:40:35 PM PDT by walkingdead (We are sacrificing America's youth on the altar of our own fear. And it is a travesty.)
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To: Colt1851Navy

The Peshtigo Wildfire in Wisconsin killed between 1500 and 2500 people.”””

It happened the same day as the Great Chicago Fire, so no one remembers Peshtigo.


32 posted on 08/15/2020 7:43:11 PM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: BigSkyVic

Yes we have a list and have critical items stored in grouped locations. Thanks for the good thoughts.


33 posted on 08/15/2020 8:03:56 PM PDT by mad_as_he$$
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To: ridesthemiles

To this day, the death toll for that fire has never been matched.

My grandmother went through it. They lived in Peshtigo at that time.

My Grt Gramps and two of the boys were out in the woods at the time setting up logging camps and RR spurs. They never knew it happened till they came back from up north of there. Smoke wasnt even paid attention to since the farmers had been clearing land and burning stumps and brush.

So it caught them all by surprise in a way.


34 posted on 08/15/2020 8:06:47 PM PDT by crz
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To: rintintin

Deadly fire tornado July 2018 in Carr, CA => https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvfDbODi-vQ


35 posted on 08/15/2020 8:11:09 PM PDT by Ken H (Best SOTU ever!)
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Here is an image of the firenado. Looking for accessable video:

https://ftw.usatoday.com/2020/08/a-fire-tornado-sure


36 posted on 08/15/2020 8:16:15 PM PDT by mad_as_he$$
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To: moovova

Looks very BIBLICAL


37 posted on 08/15/2020 8:18:02 PM PDT by Patriot Babe
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To: PLMerite
Firenado - DIY version:

Excellent! Very cool. er, hot.

38 posted on 08/15/2020 9:02:48 PM PDT by zeugma (Stop deluding yourself that America is still a free country.)
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To: Paladin2; montag813
We need to have a total set of Fahrenheit 451 Fireman to "blacken" all of the Antifa peeps' cribs.

Calling Montag813...

39 posted on 08/15/2020 9:14:50 PM PDT by null and void (Quarantine the sick. Shield the vulnerable. Free everyone else!)
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To: rintintin

39 posts and not one Sharknado gif?


40 posted on 08/15/2020 9:16:48 PM PDT by VanShuyten ("...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable animals.")
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