Extreme video of a Gustnado from an Iowa supercell

Video from TornadoVideos.net Stream Team #3 of a strong gustnado crossing the road only 100 yards away on June 7, 2008 in central Iowa! This supercell had a tornado warning for some time, but produced only gustnadoes and rapidly rotating wall clouds.

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[666motherfucker13]

yes, but it is correct and a clear explanation.

[starsoffyre]

666motherfucker13: You simply copied from wikipedia.

[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!!!

[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.

[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.

[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.