Firenado, Fire Tornado Caught On Film In Australia. A Crazy Phenomena!

A twister of fire was caught on tape in Australia just recently, This amazing phenomena has been called a Firenado. 100+ ft flames were being pulled into this dust devil like twister. Watch this video below. It is amazing!

How do fire tornado's form?

It needs to be extremely dry and usually in a drought stricken area for fire tornado's to form. It also needs to be windy and it doesn’t hurt if there are nearby wildfires. When a fire is formed it gets whipped by wind and forms a funnel or whirl like a tornado.

 

Brush fire flames pulled into this whipping air rising high turning this dust devil into a fire tornado is something I have never seen before. It looks like something out of this world. I couldn't imagine being there in person seeing it with my own eyes, Hearing the fire roar! Yes even on clear sky days weather can be scary.

 

The man who caught this fire tornado on tape says it lasted 40 minutes, It was like a dance of giants he said..

Rainfall Totals From Yesterdays Roaring Storms.

Here are all the rainfall totals from around the area from yesterdays storms. Frankfort, coming in with the highest rainfall amount as that is where that strong storm rolled through with the rotation and 60+ mph winds. Covington, and Attica, near that area in Fountain, county also saw some pretty decent amounts both coming in with over 2" inches of rain. Lafayette, and West - Lafayette seeing between 1.30" and 1.40" inches. And Remington, bringing up the rear with 0.30" inches of rain. Details on yesterdays storms are still up in the post below.

Details on the storms that rolled through the area.

Storms rolled through the area this afternoon / evening. The later in the day we got, the stronger the storms became. You can see the radar image below taken at 6:52pm EDT here in the WLFI viewing area.

You can see that line of storms pushing through the area, We were seeing very heavy rainfall, We went from a tenth inch of rain during the afternoon showers to just under an inch and a half in the Lafayette area by the time the storms finished.

 

Just before 7:30 this evening we saw yet another burst of severe weather roll through the southern counties in areas down around Clarks Hill, Colfax, and Frankfort. We actually had a tornado warning issued around 7:20pm EDT. You can see in this radar image below taken at 7:20pm EDT the hook echo in the radar. This indicating rotation in the storm.

Taking a much closer look into the storm with my velocity maps you can actually see the reds mixing with the greens also indicating rotation.

Good news is there were no tornadoes reported with this storms, However we did see lots of wind damage within the area. Take a look at these wind damage reports from surrounding counties of 60+ mph.

 

CASS IN, POWER LINES AND LARGE LIMB DOWN

 

FULTON IN, TELEPHONE POLE SNAPPED

 

MIAMI IN, TREES DOWN BLOCKING ROAD ON 400 N BETWEEN US31 AND OLD 31 AND ON 300 N BETWEEN EEL CEMETERY RD AND US31

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Though there were winds gusting to 60+ mph this evening we really didn't see to many power outages. Take a look at the Duke power outage chart below.

So how about our weather as we head into our weekend? Well Saturday I see highs in the low 70s around 71* degrees, With partly cloudy to mostly sunny skies through out the area, Expect lows Saturday night in the lower 50s. Winds between 10 and 15 mph.Yes fall is nearing! :)

 

As for Sunday and the first Colts regular season game of the season, We will see again partly cloudy skies through out the day, Slight chance of a few spotty showers in the way northern counties during the morning hours however I think most of us will stay dry and sunny! Expect a high around 72* degrees with a low that night around 50* degrees. Winds light between 10 and 15 mph.

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Warning expired.

The severe thunderstorm warning has expired for southern Fountain county. Just some scattered thundershowers left in the area. A few more scattered showers off to our west as well. I will try to have some rainfall amounts along with a new post up shortly.

 

(Radar image as of 4:35pm EDT)

Severe staying south.

Here is a look at the latest radar image, You can see that severe thunderstorm warning box just south of fountain and Montgomery counties, Good news is it looks like the real severe stuff will be in southern fountain, and Montgomery counties. Where they could see quarter sized hail, heavy rain, and winds of 60 + mph. As for the rest of us, Just continued scattered rain showers, Lafayette, currently up to 0.10" inches of rainfall.

 

More details to come.