See it: Huge 'volnado' swirls up next to latest Kilauea volcano eruption

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HAWAII VOLCANOES NATIONAL PARK, Hawaii– During the 37th eruption of Kilauea successful Hawaii, video captured a monolithic ‘volnado’ adjacent to the lava fountain. 

A volnado is simply a file of ash, particulate and fume that picks up during a volcanic eruption and swirls around. 

In circumstances not involving volcanoes, spin-ups similar this 1 would beryllium called a particulate devil. 

‘Volnado’ is not a technological term, according to the U.S. Geological Survey, but it's a amusive word that's chill to say. 

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The volnado during Kilauea's 37th eruption connected  Tuesday, Nov. 25.

The volnado during Kilauea's 37th eruption connected Tuesday, Nov. 25.

(Alyssa Lee (@alee_maui_photography) via Storyful / FOX Weather)

Lava fountains during this occurrence reached betwixt 500 and 600 feet. 

Video of the volnado showed it towering supra the immense lava fountain. 

"Look astatine the size of that tornado thing," said Alyssa Lee, the recorder of the video. "That one's arsenic large arsenic the eruption."

In summation to being arsenic gangly arsenic the eruption, the volnado was a akin width to the eruption. 

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The volnado reached precocious   into the sky, higher than the lava during the eruption.

The volnado reached precocious into the sky, higher than the lava during the eruption.

(Alyssa Lee (@alee_maui_photography) via Storyful / FOX Weather)

The volnado spun connected for arsenic agelong arsenic the video was recorded. 

"I’m astatine slightest a mile distant from the eruption; this is simply a zoomed-in video. Fascinating to spot Mother Nature enactment connected a show, and truthful safely," Lee told Storyful. 

Kilauea's 37th eruption kicked disconnected connected Tuesday day and stopped aft 9 hours, according to the USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory. 

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