It looks just like a tornado but this particular vortex also boasted burning embers swirling within it.
Indeed the twister, which struck Oregon on Saturday afternoon, was initially wrongly identified as a tornado. It was later established to be a fire whirl, where a rotating column of air also features flames or embers. Some fire whirls can be a pure vortex of flames.Rarely caught on camera, one fool-hardy photographer managed to capture an amazing picture of the natural phenomenon in action. Source: The Coming Crisis
