Published on 2025-10-02

Landspouts move against the wind

The landspout is a low-intensity tornado originating under a thunderstorm without the help of an altitude mesocyclone. This phenomenon forms when a local convergence zone creates a vertical rotation stretched by the passage of a cloud. Observed notably in Florida and Colorado, these spouts have the particularity of moving along their convergence line, even being able to go against the mean wind of the lower atmosphere.
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