Landspout

Landspout is a term created by atmospheric scientist Howard B. Bluestein in 1985 for a tornado not associated with a mesocyclone.^[3] The Glossary of Meteorology defines a landspout:

"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.

^ Judson Jones (21 May 2020). "Why Landspout Tornadoes are Common in Colorado". The Denver Post.
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^ Bluestein, Howard B. (1985). "A History of Severe-Storm-Intercept Field Programs". Weather and Forecasting. 14 (4): 267–270. Bibcode:1999WtFor..14..558B. doi:10.1175/1520-0434(1999)014<0558:AHOSSI>2.0.CO;2. ISSN 1520-0434.
^ American Meteorological Society (2000). "Glossary of Meteorology, Second Edition". ametsoc.org. Archived from the original on 6 April 2007. Retrieved 27 March 2007.

[1] Judson Jones (21 May 2020). "Why Landspout Tornadoes are Common in Colorado". The Denver Post.

[CNN-2] Cite error: The named reference CNN was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

[landspout-3] Bluestein, Howard B. (1985). "A History of Severe-Storm-Intercept Field Programs". Weather and Forecasting. 14 (4): 267–270. Bibcode:1999WtFor..14..558B. doi:10.1175/1520-0434(1999)014<0558:AHOSSI>2.0.CO;2. ISSN 1520-0434.

[Glossary_of_Meteorology-4] American Meteorological Society (2000). "Glossary of Meteorology, Second Edition". ametsoc.org. Archived from the original on 6 April 2007. Retrieved 27 March 2007.

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