Did You See A Funnel? David Payne Explains Landspouts

If you're seeing skinny rope funnels falling from the clouds, you're seeing a landspout trying to form. News 9 Chief Meteorologist David Payne explains what they are.

Wednesday, April 28th 2021, 3:33 pm

By: News 9

OKLAHOMA CITY -

We've got showers and storms moving across Oklahoma again Wednesday afternoon, but the big weather story is what you're seeing in the clouds.

Funnels. Skinny rope funnels.

If they were to touch the ground, they'd be landspouts, a weak, distant cousin to a tornado. These landspouts don't form out of a mesocyclone. There's no big area of spin or a couplet.

But what are they? News 9 Chief Meteorologist David Payne provides an explanation in the video above.

And, please, keep sending us those photos! You can text David Payne at (405) 358-4288 and you can text Lacey Swope at (405) 645-7605.