Extreme video of a Gustnado from an Iowa supercell

[lorenyork]

uh... WHERE? all i see is a big fat dark cloud mate. we had a gustnado 100km west of my hometown the other day and it was about a trillion times more prominent than this. this is barely visible amongst the shit.

[shrekrules28]

what is a gustnado is it the same as a tornado?

[strike1337]

It wasn't really all that incredible dude.

[gloomyoutlook]

"wow, it's like really windy"

RLY?

[dutchtrainmanserie22]

Awesome gustnado video!!!

[naderchaser]

Yeah, I'd say you had some weak tornadic touchdowns along there. BUT...not all of those spinups were tornadic. I think early on, you had torn-spinups that lasted for a few seconds, then got hit by straight-line winds. A lot of those spins are just eddies in the straightline flow...like in a river. But if there is a funnel above....even if it doesn't look like the spinup and funnel are totally connected, it might well still be a spinup caused by the circulation of the funnel above.

[skyclaw441]

One of these went through the field behind my backyard, it was nuts. There was dust, dirt, and corn chaff flying everywhere past the windows on the south side of the house, and then if you looked up from the north windows, you could see a rapidly spinning small funnel in the sky that wasn't part of a wall cloud.

[naderchaser]

@skyclaw441

If you saw a funnel above your so-called "gustnado", it most likely WAS a real tornado...albeit a weak one. True gustnadoes don't have funnels above them.

[skyclaw441]

...Wow. I thought it would look like this from a side view, but I do remember my friend calling me and telling me that I had a tornado coming through about to hit.

[rideon77]

It looks there is rotation in the clouds over the debris cloud!!1 It could be a weak tornado.

[htonehero]

Only thing is, I didn't think these things rotated. I thought they were straight line winds. But I'm an armchair meteorologist so my knowledge is lacking,

[rockinallnite0404]

was that a dust devil or tornado

[htonehero]

Neither. Gustnado. It's cool air falling from the supercell,

[SuperGuitarman45]

holy crap was it windy :p

[illpunchyourbaby]

kewl

[MagusAsuki]

Cool Video!

It's Almost like a footage from Storm Chaser!!

[gavinfalconer123]

are gustnadoes dangerous??

[plasticnapoleon22]

they can be, if underestimated

[laura20022004]

sweet

[coltom]

nice voice Billy Burnout

[ActoneSUCKA]

LMFAO

[HumanStrategy]

I was playing basketball in Cedar Rapids, Iowa when a tiny dust devil thing knocked me on my ass when I went to pick up a stray ball. My friends loled^^

[saveyourprayer]

tyhis is parkersburg iowa

[skibumbilly]

there is already about 4 or 5 correct definitions as to what a gustnado is. Why must people continue to ask what they are? Sheesh!

[Nathanrailfan]

Because some people are too lazy to see for themselves since it is not already in front of them. It is more like someone that can have dictionary to the right of them, but they don't want to get up and get it. So, they will wait to someone passes and ask that someone to get it for them.

[bigjplay]

Is the only difference between a gustnado and a tornado wind speed?

[birdboy93]

A gustnado is wind spun off by a tornado.

[NielsShoe]

IF he didnt copy it from wikipedia then it would of been copied from a documentary or a uni teacher as long as its acurate its fine.

[DarkRubySage]

I don't care whether it's gustnado or a tornado, I wouldn't want to be near it.

[atvman1000]

whats the difference between a tornado and a gustnado?

[fcuk3r1029]

gustnado usually causes alot of dirt/dust/debree and tornado are giant rotating things that are from the cloud down a funnel cloud then tornado

[atvman1000]

thanks

[iloveallecchianime]

a gustnado is a bunch of mini curculations created from fast gusts of winds

[atvman1000]

thx:)

[666motherfucker13]

Gustnado's are commonly mistaken for tornadoes. However, unlike tornadoes, the rotating column of air in a gustnado usually does not extend all the way to the base of the thundercloud. Gustnadoes actually have more in common with whirlwinds (which include dust devils, whirlwinds that form due to superheated surface layers and stretched vorticity, most commonly on sunny, warm days with light winds).

[atvman1000]

oh ok thx.

[starsoffyre]

666motherfucker13: You simply copied from wikipedia.

[666motherfucker13]

yes, but it is correct and a clear explanation.

[solarbeam555]

jackass

[willemesperet]

O.O  o

[GameGlitchersInc]

I would have liked to driven into it cuz you'd would have probably gotten rolled.

I wonder what that would be like

[savannalynn27]

weird.

[mimilover100]

Whoa! if you were in wisconsin on this date. you would of goten a shot of a wisconsin Supercell. it was right by our house. Not Spam

[stevejobs102]

was that a f5

[nadokid1]

A gustnado is not an F5 that ia HIGLY unlikly. But niceone AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!

[Microwavesareawesome]

hmm?

[crixymiky]

oh my, actualy???!!! your grammar i.s IM PO SSI BLE, that´s the only impossible thing in the world

[hj351]

is it just me or at 59 seconds in does that wall cloud look like a giant face scanning the earth! Yikes!

[Austin4395]

Lol! That ws near where i live. The sirens were going off! That day was so cool! I didnt take shelter tho. I decided if i was going to die, i was going to die doing something fun! It was pretty awesome. I went outside to find it, but i didnt, it was a fun niight tho.

[yoshiracer878]

sure you live near there and i'm your next door neighbor

[hughman174]

so awesome! God is such a great artist. The things He's created never ceases to amaze me. Just the beauty of nature is amazing

[Purgatori303]

I'm really surprised some of those didn't turn into full blown tornados.

[halo6842]

this is what i hate about living in iowa. we've already had about 80 tornadoes just this year!

[JakeTV248]

And lots of flooding! :(

[Sonicbeta999]

I live about 30 miles away from where that was happening. My town's tornado siren was going off. ^_^

[TomTalks]

happy 100th video!!!

btw wats the difference etweena gustnado nd a tornado???

[nov251968aab]

Here in Canada we get Micro Bursts that act just like Tornados

[EKS511]

From Wikipedia:

Unlike tornadoes, the rotating column of air in a gustnado usually does not extend all the way to the base of the thundercloud. Gustnadoes actually have more in common with whirlwinds (which include dustdevils).

[Kwizzel90210]

AMAZING FOOTAGE!

[xxcurnuxx]

MOSTER GUSTANDO!!

[MODredxking]

wow it luks liek teh sky is falling at 0:47-0:54

[sqush3]

A gustnado is a tornado that does not touch the Ground i think

[11507jennie]

I think a tornado that doesn't touch the ground is called a... uhh... Funnel Cloud.

[DelAndJesse]

lol what is a gustnado?

[11507jennie]

A gustnado is a colloquial expression for a type of short-lived, shallow, cyclonic circulation that can form in a severe thunderstorm. While it derives its name from the tornado, it has little in common with tornadoes structurally in terms of vertical development, or in regard to intensity, longevity, and formative process (classic tornadoes are associated with mesocyclones). Hope that helped. lol

[rockrebel675]

awesome!!!!

[urbanpoet06]

Congrats on the 100th video!!! cool stuff!!

[BizzyIzzy90]

Gustnadoes typically are weak and short-lived as tornadoes go, since they are not associated with an intense deeply rotating updraft. They are also nearly impossible to warn for, because of their seemingly random occurrence along the gust front.

[asdercks]

what the hell is a gustnado

[daveschmit]

what you just saw was one

[twokeblast]

one of the coolest thing you've seen in a while? WTF that creeps me out, yeah you could've been killed man!

[jimy1471]

100TH WIDEO...

COOL...

[daviscept]

101th

[Wolfluffer]

RESPONSE TO ARCTICHOUND:

Ooops, I just saw who you were talking to.... sorry. Forget wha I said.

[ken145]

Wow Intense lol.

[bratboy187]

Tornados are kool becoz thea kill ppl (:

[culokristof]

and you're a retard.

[zidaneff]

and your "kool" because you can't spell, even your emoticon at the end is wrong(:

[ArticHound]

IDIOT... how about if YOU have been killed by a tornado? or maybe how bout if a tornado kills your girlfriend? think again... many homes and lives perish because of your "cool" tornado...once again you're a pain ass idiot...

[Wolfluffer]

O my god. YOUR THE IDIOT!!! THEIR MOTHER FUCKING STORM CHASERS YOU MORO!!! IT'S THIR JOB!!! What their doing is actually HELPING us, dumb ass. If you don't know what our talking aout, then shut up

[6161NOW6161]

what exactly does the title mean?

[highschoolm4ever]

i mean what a gustnadoe

[oisiaa]

Gustnadoes are spinning cyclonic winds that can form beneath thunderstorms. They are formed by gust fronts that are the result of sinking cold air that was cooled by the evaporation of water. The clouds above do not connect to the ground and the only indication of their presence is debris picked up from the ground.

[MegaJaMs]

Interesting. It sounds like a reverse dust devil.

[highschoolm4ever]

whats a supercell?

[11507jennie]

This is a reply to an older comment; A supercell is the rotating storm cell thing that spawns the tornado.

[DelAndJesse]

ty for the gustnado explination lol...it actually did help :)

[11507jennie]

Lol, no problem. I always love to help. :D

[DelAndJesse]

lol so i see ur on youtube as well!

[11507jennie]

Haha, yep!

[nats316]

cool

[ziable]

wow!

[HOLLATYME]

wow.