That sort of event did occur if there were cracks in the surface which allowed the exhaust to penetrate along below a surface layer and build up a hovercraft effect.
Five pounds per sq in (a nothing pressure such as one might find remaining in an apparently flat tyre) generates a 144 x 5 lb lift force on a single sq ft! So a slab of 3 sq ft would sometimes appear to float up off the ground like a leaf unless it weighed over a ton! In the 60s and early 70s we learned several of these type lessons the hard way.
I am a tad surprised the mechanism was not appreciated by people in the 90s.