Originally Posted by
SASless
Near supersonic winds....lots of heat....plenty of rocks, molten lava, and other flying objects.....yes an interesting event.
In one of the links I posted earlier there is a photograph of a melted dashboard of a pick up truck.....14km's from Mt. St. Helen and Old Growth Douglas Fir Tree forests blown over even further than that....with even more scorched dead beyond that.
Correct in all details, except for molten lava, which forms an entirely different type of volcano. Incandescent rocks are possible, but its mostly superheated steam. See:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phreatic_eruption