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Old August 26th 10, 12:20 PM posted to uk.sci.weather
Graham P Davis Graham P Davis is offline
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Default Brazilian tornado with a difference

On Thursday 26 August 2010 10:55, Kate Brown scribbled:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-11086299

Absolutely terrifying!


To be pedantic, this one looks like a fire devil rather than a fire tornado.
To put this event into some sort of scale, how about the 1923 event which
killed 38,000 people in 15 minutes:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_whirl

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