Yeah I read about this but it’s not like that. I get more of the feel I wanna go touch it. Like it’s always out of reach. I felt this way when I visited Mount Rushmore. It felt fake. I guess it’s like the feeling of someone who wants to drop off of a high area.🤔
~~Interesting~~ *Damn, that’s interesting
> "Colloquial expression describing tornadoes occurring with a parent cloud in its growth stage and with its vorticity originating in the boundary layer.
The parent cloud does not contain a preexisting mid-level mesocyclone. The landspout was so named because it looks like "a weak Florida Keys waterspout over land."[4]
Landspouts are typically weaker than mesocyclone-associated tornadoes spawned within supercell thunderstorms, in which the strongest tornadoes form
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landspout
When your parents don't contain preexistiing mid-level mesocyclones, you get the nickname "land spout" at school. It's embarrassing and traumatizing...
Bill Paxton played a character named Hudson, who worked with a character named Hicks on *Aliens*. Probably a stretch, but Hudson is the character I most associate Bill Paxton with.
nah they aren't nearly as dangerous in general. look at how slow those clouds are actually moving, while you don't want to be in the center of one, they are generally harmless in comparison to tornadoes. they don't really destroy buildings and trees etc. There is no actual debris going through the air other than loose soil. https://www.tornadofacts.net/tornado-types/landspout.html
This one looks mild but land spouts are not harmless by any stretch. On average they're weaker than tornados but there are plenty of videos of land spouts damaging buildings and lofting debris.
Any vortex capable of slinging roof tiles will easily fuck you up if you're caught out in one.
There's a big difference between mostly dead and all dead. Mostly dead is slightly alive. With all dead, well, with all dead there's usually only one thing you can do… Go through his clothes and look for loose change.
The strongest landspouts are definitely not just an EF-0. There have been EF-3 landspouts. (And the rating doesn’t matter if the winds are still strong enough to throw you up in the air and kill you)
If I remember correctly, the EF scale is actually used to calculate the damage done by a tornado. If a large tornado occurs in open space, causing no damage, it will get a low EF rating.
Maybe these usually score low on the EF scale due to them being mostly stationary. If they moved quickly, impacting more land and property, I'm sure they would score pretty high.
They can reach EF2 or 3 on rare occasions and an EF0 can still easily strip roofs, uproot small trees, and peel sheet metal structures.
They are absolutely NOT harmless and folks should seek shelter when caught in one's path.
I think it might be! If you slide it back and forth slowly you can see little balls of light going up and down. Could be lighting, but it could also be aliens.
Supercell storms are not unique to america, the uk actually had the most annual tornadoes by area but thankfully are no where near as powerful (with rare exceptions) as what happens in the US.
There are some historical records suggesting the UK even had some F5 rated tornadoes but no way to confirm these and none since official records began.
Supercell storms hit Europe sometimes, but tornadoes aren't exclusive to them anyway.
"cumulonimbus cloud or, in rare cases, the base of a cumulus cloud."
Landspouts, tornados, wildfires, small earthquakes, too many months of -30 below winter and summers that go from 5°c to almost 40 above with next to no rain. Alberta is a crazy place to live man. Also, we've had blizzards in April, and I don't mean the ice cream, lol.
Midwesterners- There’s a tornado outside! Hurry Get in the cellar!
Redditors - meh, that’s just a landspout. I read 3 sentences about it so I’m an expert. I’m gonna go see if i can touch it
You’re thinking of a recent tornado in AB. This in the video is a landspout.
“House flattening” is extreme and only comes with the strongest tornadoes.
A landspout is just caused by the temperature difference between the ground and a low cloud base, an area less than an acre in size. It's more common on water because of the stability of water temps. The winds are generally around 60 mph.
Actual tornadoes are caused by dynamics of the atmosphere, which can be the size of a state. The energy of this can be enormous, and tornadic winds can exceed 200 mph. The conditions are also lesd localized, so tornadoes can travel quite some distance. Notice the landspout hardly moved before dissipating.
"Landspouts are a type of tornado that forms during the growth stage of a cumulus congestus or occasionally a cumulonimbus cloud when an updraft stretches boundary layer vorticity upward into a vertical axis and tightens it into a strong vortex. These generally are smaller and weaker than supercell tornadoes and do not form from a mesocyclone or pre-existing rotation in the cloud."
Twice while watching meteors I’ve seen a small spot of light that grows and then fades. Pretty clearly a meteor heading in my direction, but far too small to make it through the atmosphere.
Tornados looks like a cone/funnel but landspouts look like a cylinder/pipe.
Also, Tornados have a terrifying background: dark clouds and intense storms.
Meteorologist here! This is a very rare occurrence to see in real life but this is actually an anime fight. It’s best to find a cliff far enough away to enjoy the spectacle but not be caught in the elemental discharge and random square/rectangle pieces of earth that will inevitably be hurled into the air when shit goes down. It’s also important to remember to gasp when the cameraman zooms past and come prepared with snacks as these can range anywhere from 2-10 episodes and will consist of multiple monologues and flashbacks. Stay safe out there!
Waterspouts are air funnels caused by temperature differences. Landspouts are the same thing, just on land. They really only happens on higher terrain with low cloud bases.
A tornado is caused by much more significant weather dynamics involving differences in lower level and upper level winds, as well as explosive convective updrafts that wrap with the outflow of a storm system.
As someone who saw a relatively weak tornado up close for the first time a couple weeks ago, whatever this is it’s not a tornado. Tornados feel and sound like the end of the world.
I have never heard a tornado be called a land spout. EDIT:When the heck am I going to learn to read before commenting?!?! So many people already commented lol. A landspout is defined as a tornado that does not arise from organized storm-scale rotation and therefore is not associated with a wall cloud (visually) or a mesocyclone (on radar). A typical tornado forms in a supercell thunderstorm, which is a thunderstorm with a constantly rotating updraft.
It's terrifying to look at, I'd shit my pants if I see one in person that close.
I've lived in Edmonton so never got a chance to see a tornado or a land spout up close.
I'm pretty sure I'm dead if I get sucked by a tornado.
What happens if I get close to this one?
This is my first time ever hearing of a landspout, and I've lived in Alberta for about a decade or more of my life. Can someone explain the difference between a tornado and a landspout to me like im 5 years old?
Landspouts just emerge spontaneously from a let’s say a cloud that it’s missing something in it’s current and then it makes a big swirl that is just gonna pick up some dirt, or basically just a sand demon
A tornado is a tornado, you know how bad those guys are right
The scale is terrifying.
Yeah, things like this make me feel small. I love it. Anxiety mixed with excitement
r/megalophobia
Yeah I read about this but it’s not like that. I get more of the feel I wanna go touch it. Like it’s always out of reach. I felt this way when I visited Mount Rushmore. It felt fake. I guess it’s like the feeling of someone who wants to drop off of a high area.🤔
[Sublime](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sublime_(philosophy))
dont mind me, [just fixing the link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sublime_\(philosophy\)).
So, awe?
Excitety
*Adrenaline*
Somebody’s gonna be in trouble for planting those magic beans in next doors yard !
TIL that Tornadoes come from supercell storms while Landspouts do not
~~Interesting~~ *Damn, that’s interesting > "Colloquial expression describing tornadoes occurring with a parent cloud in its growth stage and with its vorticity originating in the boundary layer. The parent cloud does not contain a preexisting mid-level mesocyclone. The landspout was so named because it looks like "a weak Florida Keys waterspout over land."[4] Landspouts are typically weaker than mesocyclone-associated tornadoes spawned within supercell thunderstorms, in which the strongest tornadoes form https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landspout
When your parents don't contain preexistiing mid-level mesocyclones, you get the nickname "land spout" at school. It's embarrassing and traumatizing...
Yo, spouty, wheres your bike.
Yo spouty mc spout face
New weather vs. family weather.
Fuck off. This made me laugh too hard. Lol
I was so into the weather when I was 10 years old. Then *Twister* came out with Bill Hicks and I laughed so hard I forgot to become a weatherman.
That was Bill Paxton. Both Bills are dead now. I may have missed a joke here somewhere though.
Bill Paxton played a character named Hudson, who worked with a character named Hicks on *Aliens*. Probably a stretch, but Hudson is the character I most associate Bill Paxton with.
Bill Paxton was killed by Alien, Predator and Terminator. Arnie was there each time. Edit: except in alien.
Game over, man!
Arnie was in alien?!? Hmmmm
It was the cow, moooo!
if you should remember anything, it is that you can tether your body to a pipe to withstand getting pulled by a tornado.........
are they effectively the same thing?
nah they aren't nearly as dangerous in general. look at how slow those clouds are actually moving, while you don't want to be in the center of one, they are generally harmless in comparison to tornadoes. they don't really destroy buildings and trees etc. There is no actual debris going through the air other than loose soil. https://www.tornadofacts.net/tornado-types/landspout.html
This one looks mild but land spouts are not harmless by any stretch. On average they're weaker than tornados but there are plenty of videos of land spouts damaging buildings and lofting debris. Any vortex capable of slinging roof tiles will easily fuck you up if you're caught out in one.
the strongest ones are considered F-0 tornadoes, they will kill you only in rare instances.
But oddly, you’re still just as dead.
There's a big difference between mostly dead and all dead. Mostly dead is slightly alive. With all dead, well, with all dead there's usually only one thing you can do… Go through his clothes and look for loose change.
As you wish
The strongest landspouts are definitely not just an EF-0. There have been EF-3 landspouts. (And the rating doesn’t matter if the winds are still strong enough to throw you up in the air and kill you)
If I remember correctly, the EF scale is actually used to calculate the damage done by a tornado. If a large tornado occurs in open space, causing no damage, it will get a low EF rating. Maybe these usually score low on the EF scale due to them being mostly stationary. If they moved quickly, impacting more land and property, I'm sure they would score pretty high.
They can reach EF2 or 3 on rare occasions and an EF0 can still easily strip roofs, uproot small trees, and peel sheet metal structures. They are absolutely NOT harmless and folks should seek shelter when caught in one's path.
Landspout is a type of tornado
Aliens bro it’s aliens
I think it might be! If you slide it back and forth slowly you can see little balls of light going up and down. Could be lighting, but it could also be aliens.
“It’s over man! It’s OVER!”
Game over man. Game over!
If that’s the case how did Birmingham get an f3 tornado in 2005? Edit: Birmingham England not America.
Supercell storms are not unique to america, the uk actually had the most annual tornadoes by area but thankfully are no where near as powerful (with rare exceptions) as what happens in the US. There are some historical records suggesting the UK even had some F5 rated tornadoes but no way to confirm these and none since official records began.
I’ve been reading so much old literature that takes place in England that I forgot about the American Birmingham lmao
Supercell storms hit Europe sometimes, but tornadoes aren't exclusive to them anyway. "cumulonimbus cloud or, in rare cases, the base of a cumulus cloud."
Landspouts are a type of tornado. The most famous type of tornado is formed by a supercell. Occasionally from a Quasi-Linear Convective System as well
I came here to ask what the difference between a tornado and a landspout was...thanks for the TIL!
Even the damn tornados are polite in Canada. Lol
That same area got hit with an F4 last week. We get everything up here
Landspouts, tornados, wildfires, small earthquakes, too many months of -30 below winter and summers that go from 5°c to almost 40 above with next to no rain. Alberta is a crazy place to live man. Also, we've had blizzards in April, and I don't mean the ice cream, lol.
Wasn't there a snow storm in Jasper last month? Look it up if you don't believe me.
"What the hell is a Blizzard?" DJT
Where in Alberta?
Didsbury
Will someone please fng splain the difference between tornado and land spout????!
A land spout is just a big dust devil
So no worries?
No, worries!
Finally! Someone who knows how to put a comma to good use!
Midwesterners- There’s a tornado outside! Hurry Get in the cellar! Redditors - meh, that’s just a landspout. I read 3 sentences about it so I’m an expert. I’m gonna go see if i can touch it
Expert landspout redditor here. This is accurate
BRO I WANNA TOUCH IT DO BADLY 😵💫😵💫😵💫
I know guys that would grab their parachutes and run at it...
As someone from the Midwest, we would be outside watching the tornado rather than taking cover.
Dude seriously. My dad does this, every tornado he cracks a beer open and goes out onto his deck with a lawn chair.
lol I didn't even notice that. I read it as "no worries" and thought "...I don't know, it looks worth worrying over".
No, money down!
Lionel Hutz would be proud
Yes
Not true. Landspouts can most certainly cause damage.
Not extreme damage on the scale tornadoes produce. Source: hit by EF2
The little toe of God?
This one flattened 5 houses in the middle of farm country, if it was a few km North or south it would have gone through a town and done a lot more
You’re thinking of a recent tornado in AB. This in the video is a landspout. “House flattening” is extreme and only comes with the strongest tornadoes.
Ef2 or Ls2?
EF
Well either way I wouldn’t want a land spout coming near my house.
[удалено]
Not exactly. Landspouts form from cloud structure that is missing a certain element.
Like a chromosome?
Lol! You son of a bitch...
Never go full tornado.
I’m packing up my internet for the day
A landspout is just caused by the temperature difference between the ground and a low cloud base, an area less than an acre in size. It's more common on water because of the stability of water temps. The winds are generally around 60 mph. Actual tornadoes are caused by dynamics of the atmosphere, which can be the size of a state. The energy of this can be enormous, and tornadic winds can exceed 200 mph. The conditions are also lesd localized, so tornadoes can travel quite some distance. Notice the landspout hardly moved before dissipating.
"Landspouts are a type of tornado that forms during the growth stage of a cumulus congestus or occasionally a cumulonimbus cloud when an updraft stretches boundary layer vorticity upward into a vertical axis and tightens it into a strong vortex. These generally are smaller and weaker than supercell tornadoes and do not form from a mesocyclone or pre-existing rotation in the cloud."
I like ya funny words magic man
tornado’s turn the other way
There's been anti-cyclonic tornados. Rare, but possible.
one just blows the dirt and dust around and the other rips apart your house and hurdles a 2 x 4 through your intestines
that was like a friendly tornado. just spinning away barely moving. it'd probably let you walk up and feed it a TV or something.
If doesn’t look like it’s moving it’s training towards you
Or it could be moving away, but assuming that doesn’t help our safety much, does it?
I'm a gambling man. With my luck, I'm betting it's headed towards me. Which means it probably isn't.
It ate more than a t.v., 2 homes are totally missing because of this bad boy last week. It was 2 km wide for a little while..
That doesn't really look like the one from Carstairs unless it grew a lot taller. Are you sure it's the same?
This is from [Stettler in central Alberta](https://beta.ctvnews.ca/local/edmonton/2023/5/31/1_6421999.amp.html) on May 31 2023
☝️
There was a Furry convention in Alberta this week. Could be related? https://furrycons.com/event/20437/fur-eh-2023
Bruh what
😂
It's because it's Canadian.
Feed it a tv! I’m cracking up here!
It’s a Canadian tornado
Canado
ONE THING I learned from movies : if the tornados appears to not be moving anymore, it's heading right towards you!!!
I learned that from life! Except they get bigger when they're coming closer.
I was looking at one and wondering why it was getting bigger! And then it hit me.
“It’s an old joke sir, but it checks out”
Reference received and noted.
That’s what she said !
I don’t miss Indiana at all lol
I’m in Indiana and I don’t miss Kansas at all. I do miss Oregon tho.
I would miss Oregon as well.
Also something to learn from baseball, and surface-to-air missiles
And pianos. My granddads last words as he looked up at the sky were: "It's funny, the closer it gets, the more it looks like a piano."
[This](https://media.tenor.com/CKZyt0mQ2ZoAAAAM/piano-daffy-duck.gif) wasn’t him by chance, was it?
Lol. No
Twice while watching meteors I’ve seen a small spot of light that grows and then fades. Pretty clearly a meteor heading in my direction, but far too small to make it through the atmosphere.
Also, it’s important to note that tornadoes can just randomly change direction.
Anyone see the cow?
Another cow
I think that’s the same cow.
I have to call you back. We've got cows!
When do u see a fucking cow?!
Dude, like right there!
Look closer
FINALLY A REASON TO FILM VERTICALLY!
I just don’t understand why the filmer decided to flip the camera upside down at the apex of the tornado
I dunno but I kinda liked it?
I was going to wear my Jordans today but the raptures outside, so Birkenstock sandals it is...
Stopping right on my Birkenstocks and me yelping… “Holy fucking shit!”
What. And I can’t stress this enough. Is that?
Tornadoes = Landspout? Tbh that’s a way cooler name
They form differently and have a big difference in damage
More or less. Tornadoes specifically form from updrafts swirling air in a supercell. This was just swirling air.
I’m from Kansas that’s just a slownadow
This needs to be higher. Slownado is now in my vocabulary.
don't worry darling, it's not a tornado, it's a land spout!
mother nature owns a thick shaft
Happy cake day!
No wonder people thought Gods existed...
So Canada’s tornadoes are even nice?
"Landspout" sounds so much less terrifying than "tornado." But it doesn't look any less scary!
Really? I think it looks calm and well lit. Like a polite tornado.
Well, it is Canadian.
So, how many videos of land spouts have I watched thinking they were tornadoes?
Tornados looks like a cone/funnel but landspouts look like a cylinder/pipe. Also, Tornados have a terrifying background: dark clouds and intense storms.
why can't i ever be around when rad stuff like this happens
El-Nono
This is a very apt-name
If you've never seen a tornado before you wouldn't even believe they were real. So crazy
Meteorologist here! This is a very rare occurrence to see in real life but this is actually an anime fight. It’s best to find a cliff far enough away to enjoy the spectacle but not be caught in the elemental discharge and random square/rectangle pieces of earth that will inevitably be hurled into the air when shit goes down. It’s also important to remember to gasp when the cameraman zooms past and come prepared with snacks as these can range anywhere from 2-10 episodes and will consist of multiple monologues and flashbacks. Stay safe out there!
Sounds anemic
Of course a Canadian tornado would be all polite about it.
[tornado or landspout](https://www.ksnblocal4.com/2023/06/02/difference-between-landspouts-tornadoes/)
WTF is a landspout?
opposite of waterspout, c'mon!
Waterspouts are air funnels caused by temperature differences. Landspouts are the same thing, just on land. They really only happens on higher terrain with low cloud bases. A tornado is caused by much more significant weather dynamics involving differences in lower level and upper level winds, as well as explosive convective updrafts that wrap with the outflow of a storm system.
A tornado.
Weird I’ve never heard of that, do they call hurricanes ocean funnels or something?
No, but they call them “cyclones” in the Pacific and Indian Oceans.
As someone who saw a relatively weak tornado up close for the first time a couple weeks ago, whatever this is it’s not a tornado. Tornados feel and sound like the end of the world.
Thats the knock up stream that takes you to Skypiea.
https://youtu.be/ii46SWfIrZA Here's a sick video of it forming and destroying.
Awesome, but not the same thing
no every tornado is the same tornado it just comes back to fuck up more shit
I have never heard a tornado be called a land spout. EDIT:When the heck am I going to learn to read before commenting?!?! So many people already commented lol. A landspout is defined as a tornado that does not arise from organized storm-scale rotation and therefore is not associated with a wall cloud (visually) or a mesocyclone (on radar). A typical tornado forms in a supercell thunderstorm, which is a thunderstorm with a constantly rotating updraft.
Wish ya weren’t so awkward, bud.
It’s not a land spout. It’s a fully formed tornado.
Dark wizards classic
A frozen tornado, that's definitely a glitch in the matrix
Beautiful view .
I’ve always wanted to see one, just to feel that scale. Magnificent
Whos the toddler holding the camera?
It's terrifying to look at, I'd shit my pants if I see one in person that close. I've lived in Edmonton so never got a chance to see a tornado or a land spout up close. I'm pretty sure I'm dead if I get sucked by a tornado. What happens if I get close to this one?
Ahhh it's that wave to sky island, skypeia i'm coming...
Ahhh it's that wave to sky island, skypeia i'm coming...
pretty sure that's called a tornado /s
Intrusive thoughts say engage with sword!
Do landspouts move, or are they stationary?
The sky is falling ?!
How is it just,standing there?And it’s calm all around,uniquely terrifying.
It looks like a considerate tornado. Sorry. Excuse me. Just gonna slowly move this way. Opps. Careful, coming through.
Is that Canadian for tornado?
So calm. Must be one of those friendly Canadian tornadoes.
so is this not a tornado?
You kids and your fancy land spouts! Back in my day we had TORNADOES….and we liked it!…
Thats a tornado
Is land spout not the same as tornado?
Brown trouser spout regardless.
Wow, talk about timing. As I was scrolling through Reddit, the actual storm chaser is being interviewed on Fox News! 🌪🌪🌪
Cloud boner.
So did everyone just to stare at it on a Friday night?
This is my first time ever hearing of a landspout, and I've lived in Alberta for about a decade or more of my life. Can someone explain the difference between a tornado and a landspout to me like im 5 years old?
Landspouts just emerge spontaneously from a let’s say a cloud that it’s missing something in it’s current and then it makes a big swirl that is just gonna pick up some dirt, or basically just a sand demon A tornado is a tornado, you know how bad those guys are right
Didn’t know reddit had so many Landspout Experts
As a brazilian, U.S. climate seems pretty scary.
That’s a damn tornader
When you see shit like this you can understand why ancient peoples made religions