{"id":16002,"date":"2025-09-11T13:40:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T13:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/16002\/"},"modified":"2025-09-11T13:40:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T13:40:08","slug":"nsw-tornado-captured-on-bushfire-watch-camera-as-emergency-alerts-issued","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/16002\/","title":{"rendered":"NSW tornado captured on bushfire watch camera as emergency alerts issued"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"BykrjImGEgsVna\" style=\"display:none\">Australia\u2019s Bureau of Meteorology said the tornado was observed in the mid-afternoon. Another was sighted about 70km away an hour earlier, it said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"BykrjImGEgsVna\" style=\"display:none\">Fire service towers are equipped with cameras to automatically detect smoke, as well as signs of heat and fire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"BykrjImGEgsVna\" style=\"display:none\">They can also monitor storm cells because of the risk that lightning strikes may set off grass fires, said NSW Fire Service inspector James Morris.<\/p>\n<p class=\"BykrjImGEgsVna\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThe cell that was coming across did have a lot of lightning in it,\u201d Morris told AFP.<\/p>\n<p class=\"BykrjImGEgsVna\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThis season we have got very high fuel loads in the grassland areas,\u201d he said, following long periods of rain and warm weather.<\/p>\n<p class=\"BykrjImGEgsVna\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cOnce that grass cures off it provides a significant risk for grass fires. That is likely what our biggest risk will be this season.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"BykrjImGEgsVna\" style=\"display:none\">-Agence France-Presse<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australia\u2019s Bureau of Meteorology said the tornado was observed in the mid-afternoon. Another was sighted about 70km away&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16003,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[18086,806,1135,8111,8046,9260,18092,18089,15974,273,2079,5606,18087,111,139,3655,69,90,1523,147,11584,18088,18091,18085,18090,416,16670,11587],"class_list":["post-16002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-alerts","tag-as","tag-australian","tag-bushfire","tag-camera","tag-captured","tag-countryside","tag-dramatic","tag-emergency","tag-environment","tag-fire","tag-images","tag-issued","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nsw","tag-nz","tag-on","tag-over","tag-science","tag-stretch","tag-surveillance","tag-thunderstormstruck","tag-tornado","tag-towering","tag-video","tag-watch","tag-yesterday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16002\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}