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8 Amazing Images from the Peetz, Colorado, Landspout
[font size="4"]8 Amazing Images from the Peetz, Colorado, Landspout[/font]
Eric Chaney
Published: May 30, 2016
A towering landspout tornado hit Colorado Monday afternoon near the small town of Peetz, before crossing the border into Nebraska and passing by the town of Sidney.
"A landspout tornado differs from most tornadoes in that it is not associated with the main rotation in the thunderstorm," said weather.com meteorologist Brian Donegan. "They most often occur in drier areas with a lot of low-level instability."
Though typically smaller and weaker than most tornadoes, they can still produce major damage if they run into a highly-populated area, said Donegan. In this case, the tornado struck an area with a very low population with not much infrastructure around, but the National Weather Service did report some damage to a farm near Peetz.
According to the National Weather Service, there were three landspout tornadoes reported in that area. The largest was impressive, tearing up dirt at its base and towering high into the clouds. Numerous people stepped out to capture the twister in still photos and video.
(I couldn't get any images to show up with the above link, on two different browsers, so the following are from Weather.com)
Eric Chaney
Published: May 30, 2016
A towering landspout tornado hit Colorado Monday afternoon near the small town of Peetz, before crossing the border into Nebraska and passing by the town of Sidney.
"A landspout tornado differs from most tornadoes in that it is not associated with the main rotation in the thunderstorm," said weather.com meteorologist Brian Donegan. "They most often occur in drier areas with a lot of low-level instability."
Though typically smaller and weaker than most tornadoes, they can still produce major damage if they run into a highly-populated area, said Donegan. In this case, the tornado struck an area with a very low population with not much infrastructure around, but the National Weather Service did report some damage to a farm near Peetz.
According to the National Weather Service, there were three landspout tornadoes reported in that area. The largest was impressive, tearing up dirt at its base and towering high into the clouds. Numerous people stepped out to capture the twister in still photos and video.
(I couldn't get any images to show up with the above link, on two different browsers, so the following are from Weather.com)
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And I would have thought something like that would have been called a dust devil. But, I guess if they go into a cloud (or come out of one; don't know which way these formed) that it's then not the same.
Now I have a new weather-term: Landspout.
Kind of sounds like Landshark 
Thanks.
