Canterbury, NZ Tornado

[Steve Burrows]

Below video (not mine) taken of a Tornado captured on Sunday in New Zealand. Unsure if its a tornado or Landspout, either way pretty impressive. Photos up on here: https://www.facebook.com/nzstormchasers/

Im still kicking myself that I missed this considering it was only two hours away from my home, yet I will travel thousands of miles to be in the USA...

Vertical video sadly.

 

[Steve Burrows]

Local Met Office (Merservice) have called it EF-0 and a landspout. No doubt the rating on it would have been higher if it hit a structure, luckily it didn't.

 

[James Wilson]

The beginning reminds me of a certain Colorado tornado on 6-4-2015

 

[Kyle Brittain]

Trippy to see that clockwise motion!

 

[Steve Burrows]

The beginning reminds me of a certain Colorado tornado on 6-4-2015

A couple CO tornadoes certainly came to mind!

 

[Paul Knightley]

Nice - not really sure the different nomenclature is required - it's a tornado! It does have the appearance of a non-mesocyclone tornado, though.