A cluster of storms in Colorado quickly lined out early in the afternoon, but we stayed with the stronger area for several hours in order to see if we could sneak in a little mesoscale accident, and it appears that we did, or were quite close.
While there was no persistent condensation funnel over the ground circulation, there was a very clear and distinct rotation in the clouds above a couple of dirt and dust swirls less than a mile away from us. So depending on how you interpret these things, it was either a gustnado or a tornado.
I’ll file it under “maybenado,” just like the similar one that we saw in Texas last year.
The video clip shows a few minutes of my video, followed by a few minutes of James’ video.
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