article_snippet.sent: This too-close-for-comfort video shows a swirling 'landspout' tornado tearing up the Texas countryside from just 100 yards away.
article_snippet.sent: Landspouts - the scientific term for tornadoes which are not part of a thunderstorm - can be difficult to capture on film.
article_snippet.sent: The wind formations tend not to last much longer than 15 minutes, and are too small-scale to appear on weather radars.
article_snippet.sent: Other landspout photographs emerged Wednesday night from the area around Loraine.
article_snippet.sent: Spotted: Other photographs from Loraine showed landspouts - a term for any tornado not attachde to a thunderstorm - on Wednesday evening .
article_snippet.sent: Unexpected: Landspouts are not easy to predict because the wind formations that form Landspouts are too small to be picked up on radar .
highlights_snippet.sent: Landspout is technical term of a tornado not attached to a thunderstorm .