The peak wind speed was estimated to be 60 to 65 miles per hour — an EF0 rating — with the landspout only lasting .0668 miles. Photos courtesy of the Delaware County EMA. In a Facebook post ...

As seen in these pictures, the classic narrow-funnel shape of the Montana landspout, with a well-defined connection to the parent thunderstorm cloud is similar in appearance to that of a tornado.

Saws confirms that the destructive weather event in Montana was a landspout, not a tornado, after a detailed analysis of the site and high-resolution images.

Analysis of the recent destructive weather event in Montana, north of Pretoria, has been confirmed as a landspout and not ... of high-resolution satellite images of the event, among other things ...