There were tears in Kentucky as 800,000 gallons of bourbon spilled out of the Jim Beam plant and into a nearby lake.

The spill was the result of a lightning strike on the warehouse, which also sparked a fire.

Incredible aerial footage shows a fire tornado, or “firenado,” spawning on the surface of the lake and reaching high into the air.

A lake brimming with bourbon becomes the nesting ground for a firenado, after a lightning strike destroys a Jim Beam…

Posted by The Weather Channel on Thursday, September 3, 2015

The incredible footage shows the whole surface on fire as the alcohol burns.

“You have to have exactly the right conditions for something like this to happen,” The Weather Channel reports in the video. “A body of water with a flammable substance on top, and weather conditions that whip the fire into a funnel.

“Fortunately the pond kept the fire from spreading. It took quite an effort, but eventually, the fire was put out.”

According to the news site, a nearby creek was contaminated, killing “many” fish.

The Jim Beam company paid the state $27,000 in cleanup costs for the “booze-fueled spectacle.”