Fiery Whirl

  
GLD-040 THE NOTES OF CHARLES FORT

Fort, Charles; The Fortean Society Magazine, 1:12, Spring 1944

      August 26, 1826. Fiery whirl. Carcassone (Aude), great heat in the morning. At noon massing clouds in the west. Then a thick black cloud suspended over a field. Crackling and hissing and air rushing toward the cloud. A loud detonation and an enormous column of fine hovered the field--throwing down walls and picking up and killing sheep. A strong sulfurous odor. Nobody said it burned anything.

-from Strange Phenomena: A Sourcebook of Unusual Natural Phenomena, compiled by William R. Corliss, 1973
(same source as in this post)