--- ---  # The Scariest Picture You'll See All Day: A 'Firenado' by [Jessica Roy](https://time.com/author/jessica-roy/) ## Jessica Roy May 12, 2014 3:10 PM UTC  A 'firenado' tears through a field in Chillicothe, Missouri on May 3, 2014\. Part fire, part tornado this blazing twister was spotted by Missouri native Janae Copelin while out driving. A 'firenado' tears through a field in Chillicothe, Missouri on May 3, 2014\. Part fire, part tornado this blazing twister was spotted by Missouri native Janae Copelin while out driving.Janae Copelin—Barcroft Media/Landov by [Jessica Roy](https://time.com/author/jessica-roy/) ## Jessica Roy May 12, 2014 3:10 PM UTC You thought the highly underrated 1996 action movie _Twister_ taught you everything there was to know about tornadoes, but you were wrong. Meet the [firenado](http://www.theguardian.com/world/shortcuts/2014/may/11/firenado-fire-tornado-firenadoes), which is exactly what it sounds like: a tornado that sucks up surrounding fire, creating a swirling, burning cone of disaster. The above firenado was captured on Instagram by Janae Copelin in Chillicothe, Missouri. No injuries were [reported](http://www.kmbc.com/news/woman-captures-chillicothe-fire-tornado-in-instagram-photo/25841226). Firenado Fire Tornado Photo in Missouri ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/96117/firenado/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/96117/firenado/"},"headline":"The Scariest Picture You'll See All Day: A 'Firenado'","datePublished":"2014-05-12T15:10:49.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:09:36.665Z","description":"Bill Paxton never could have predicted this","url":"https://time.com/96117/firenado/","keywords":["Newsfeed","weather","fire","Missouri","natural disaster","Tornadoes"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt90878f7c4af49ee1/69868ee7169ab01b09279410/29223139.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Jessica Roy","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/jessica-roy/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt90878f7c4af49ee1/69868ee7169ab01b09279410/29223139.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"FIRENADO TEARS THROUGH MISSOURI FIELD","caption":"FIRENADO TEARS THROUGH MISSOURI FIELD","creditText":"Janae Copelin—Barcroft Media/Landov","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/96117/firenado/","name":"The Scariest Picture You'll See All Day: A 'Firenado'"}}]}] ```