this too close for comfort video shows a swirling 'landspout' tornado tearing up the texas countryside from just 100 yards away daredevil stan cole, an iraq veteran, captured the wall of wind as it gulped up dust from the fields in loraine, western texas he took the footage with his friend ricky bailey while the two were out in a tractor on wednesday evening scroll down for video  vortex: stan cole, an iraq and afghanistan veteran, filmed this landspout from just 100 yards away in loraine, texas  cole told local news station ktxs that he felt chunks of mud start hitting the vehicle, at which point the two hopped out and started filming he said: 'perhaps 10 years in iraq and afghanistan, my danger meter needs to be recalibrated' landspouts   the scientific term for tornadoes which are not part of a thunderstorm   can be difficult to capture on film the wind formations tend not to last much longer than 15 minutes, and are too small scale to appear on weather radars other landspout photographs emerged wednesday night from the area around loraine various social media users posted images of a clearly defined spout working its way through fields   though it is not clear whether that was the same spout captured in cole's video spotted: other photographs from loraine showed landspouts   a term for any tornado not attachde to a thunderstorm   on wednesday evening  unexpected: landspouts are not easy to predict because the wind formations that form them are too small to be picked up on radar 
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