Una tormenta ígnea es el movimiento en masa del aire resultante del fuego, creando una ignición de gran intensidad en una amplia área. Es muy comúnmente un fenómeno piroplástico, creado durante un incendio forestal, y muchos de los más grandes de estos fenómenos, como el Gran Incendio de Postigo, han sido tormentas ígneas. Una tormenta ígnea también puede ser el resultado de explosivos no intencionados.

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A firestorm is a conflagration which attains such intensity that it creates and sustains its own wind system. It is most commonly a natural phenomenon, created during some of the largest bushfires and wildfires. Although the word has been used to describe certain large fires, the phenomenon's determining characteristic is a fire with its own storm-force winds from every point of the compass. The Black Saturday bushfires and the Great Peshtigo Fire are possible examples of forest fires with some portion of combustion due to a firestorm. Firestorms can also occur in cities, usually as a deliberate effect of targeted explosives such as occurred as a result of the aerial firebombings of Hamburg, Dresden, and the atomic bombing of Hiroshima.

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