A fire tornado is exactly what it sounds like. A tubular shaped cylinder of fire that looks much like a tornado. They are created when high heat and turbulent winds mix together and "aren't so much rare as rarely reported". This fiery tornado look-a-like will suck in nearby objects, like a tornado, and has a core that is on average one to three feet wide. This fire tornado--or fire whirl, fire devil, or firenados--can span five to ten stories tall, and rarely can by dozens of feet wide and over a hundred stories tall.
The picture above is a photo of a fire tornado seen in Hungary in earlier March. Below is a small example of just how destructive a fire tornado can be...
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