Footage of a landspout tornado that occurred north-northeast of Meteor Crater in northern Arizona. Most of the footage is taken from Two Guns. It lasted about 10 minutes beginning at 1:57PM MST/2057Z.
Great vid! Professionally shot, and without all the “oh my god, oh my god, oh my god” shouting seen in nearly all other landspout footage. Thanks for sharing it 👍🏻
Thanks Scott! It's funny because there is some semi-whispered omg omg in there, but I try to keep it subliminal, knowing how much it grates on me to hear my rantings played back :)
Along with "Woah!" and " Holy sh*t! ", it seems to be the American white male's ad lib to the filming of rare events, not just funnels. Each ethnicity/culture has their own, I suppose. Here in Mexico, foul-mouthed people yell "A la verg* !" in videos.
Nice capture Jeremy!! You are one blessed man to have gotten that!! I live in Ontario where we frequently get tornado's in the summertime when it's hot enough to fry an egg, but to see one with clear skies in the background is weird for us here in Ontario!!
Wow good catch interesting long monsoon this yr do to very active eastern pacific incredible good video we had a lot of microburst severe storms in Willcox last night was wickid heavyrains small hail and winds in excess of 60plus for about 4 minutes but storm lasted a good 10 to 15 minutes I was helping a friend with a store so tomorrow I should have two parts up on videos good catch dude
Two to three miles horizontally was my guess. I worked out that ground contact was around 2 miles south of I-40, and edge of that storm base was at least directly over, if not further north of I-40 at that point. It kept stretching the vortex northward while the ground point stayed put. Pretty cool watching it string out like that.
Very nice catch i haven't been able to catch a Landspout yet or Supercell Tornado on Land however i live very close to Lake Erie i see Waterspouts alot up their mostly Fairweather Waterspouts similar to Landspouts but at times we do get a Tornadic Waterspout (Supercell Tornado over Water)
You're right that a landspout isn't part of a mesocyclone circulation-it involves existing surface vorticity getting stretched into a coinciding updraft. They are usually weak, but in rare cases can develop winds capable of EF-3 damage.
They issued a tornado warning shortly after that call, but the SPC report states that state troopers also called it in, so probably due to multiple reports.
@@Tigers9596 Eesh. A tornado warning for a landspout? That was kinda what I was afraid of the moment he called it in and called it a "landspout tornado". James Spann just frowned somewhere without knowing why. The public and the media weathercasters are already rebelling en-masse against calling warnings for embedded E0 spin-ups in squall lines; it accomplishes nothing except riling up the public and 90% of the time the circulation's gone while the sirens are still going off... like I said, a ton of trouble for no public benefit. This problem is severely exascerbated by NWS local offices where there's rarely any tornadoes, because they're staffed by guys who don't issue a lot of tornado warnings... I've seen SEVERAL this year alone in my neck of the woods that were head-scratchingly stupid. And a gustnado/landspout is considerably less dangerous than even an embedded non-cellular EF0 and usually has no identifiable Doppler signature at all. Ugh. If we continue to encourage the NWS to set off the sirens for landspouts and gustnadoes "just to be safe" (or, in government terms, "to prevent liability") we'll never get the public to understand what the difference is between April 2011 and the dust devils they see in their back yards every week in summer. To them, they're all "tornadoes", and when the NWS glorifies EF0s with the civil defense sirens we lose a valuable opportunity for instruction.
@@orangejoe204 I totally agree. After my SKYWARN training I asked the person if they would issue tornado warnings for landspouts, even though they aren't really full-on tornadoes and they said yes because they still cause damage.
@@orangejoe204 I will say though, it's ultimately the county/township/cities responsibilities for sounding sirens, and they all have their own criteria.
If I recall correctly, it was relatively isolated. I think there was some other lesser convection trying to get going on the east/downrange side of it, but it was dominant and had clean inflow.
They are notoriously difficult to forecast and observe. Like you mentioned, they're either not seen or very subtle on radar, but even if a radar signature was evident, they're usually so brief, it would be gone by the time you navigated to it. I try to watch for strong low and mid level lapse rates, and at least moderate instability for strong sustained updrafts, then the most difficult key ingredient of a surface boundary for vorticity to get drawn up into the storm. The Little Colorado River Valley can be a good spot for those elements to come together during the monsoon and with southwest flow. But still, the vast majority of storms still won't be able to pull it off.
Hi Jack, good observation. Although this cell exhibited sporadic, cyclonic velocity couplets, I would not call it a supercell either. Especially not the region where the funnel was descending which was at the very south tip of the updraft. Landspout tornadoes are not initiated or sustained by a supercell mesocyclone, but are caused when a strong updraft overrides existing circulations at the surface. By meteorological definitions they are tornadoes, but not supercellular as you noted.
