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| What appears to be a very skinny weird "landspout" tornado in India. |
It takes the form of a little cylinder, about as big in circumference as a person.
It could be just a dust devil, but judging from the clouds overhead, I really do think it's a small tornado. The headline on the video calls it a landspout, and that's probably a fair description.
A landspout is indeed a tornado, but they form differently, and usually look different from the funnel or wedge-shaped tornadoes that you commonly see in storm videos.
Unlike a typical tornado, which lowers from the base of a storm until it reaches the ground, a landspout usually starts to form near the earth's surface, or a few hundred feet up, then extends upward toward the thunderstorm clouds.
Landspouts usually get going when shifting winds merge near a developing thunderstorms. When the boundaries of shifting winds collide, sometimes they start to swirl. If the swirl is under the thunderstorm, it could eventually make a connection with the clouds overhead.
At that point, a landspout tornado is borne.
Landspouts are usually weaker than tornadoes that form from supercell thunderstorms, the ones that form in the clouds and then extend toward the surface.
But anyway, here's the video. It is a strange one:
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