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Landspout or small rain shaft?

It looks more like a narrow rain shaft to me but??? The video would need to be better to know for sure. High quality version is barely any better but looks like precip shaft.
 
Thanks David , I like cold air funnel better.
This is towards the end of it's life and why I didn't lean towards a rain shaft,
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Yeah I have seen countless look alike rainshafts and quite a few cold air funnels over the years. That is clearly a cold air funnel.
 
I would also agree on the cold air funnel diagnosis. You need a good updraft for a landspout.
 
+1 on the cold air funnel. We see them a lot up here in the Pacific NW.
Nice catch, BTW!
 
where were you at in Tulsa? Too bad I missed it. Thats the closest thing we've had to a tornado in town since May 3, 1999. I think Tulsa is immune to tornadoes.







Not really though.
 
where were you at in Tulsa? Too bad I missed it. Thats the closest thing we've had to a tornado in town since May 3, 1999. I think Tulsa is immune to tornadoes.







Not really though.
I was off of 122nd and Admiral looking towards the airport. It was drifting to the SE and dissapated about 129th and Admiral.
 
yeah...I vote funnel. I never seen a rain shaft bend like that...and almost never as defined width wise. If it was located down in the Keys I would have instantly called it a waterspout. Add: Because of the high base it is associated with.
 
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The funnel looks to be coming from altocumulus rather than cumulus.

Exactly why it is more likely a cold air funnel. Cold air funnels are caused by mid-level horizontal vorticity getting tilted and stretched, sometimes by weak updrafts or turbulence. (from what I understand anyway)
 
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