AccuWeather's Tony Laubach was live in Burns, Wyoming, breaking down what to expect this weekend.
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00:00and severe stores remain l
00:03through Father's Day week
00:05top story. At least 11 pe
00:07have died in San Antonio,
00:09of torrential rain and fl
00:11daily rounds of storms fr
00:13bringing gusty winds, ha
00:16tornadoes. Meanwhile, rain
00:19the northeast for the ho
00:21washout isn't expected, b
00:24conditions and localized
00:27possible throughout sunda
00:29to the latest. Now on th
00:31the central U. S. And our
00:34meteorologist and storm ch
00:37joining us now from Byrne
00:39I see some lowering behi
00:41activity behind you? Well
00:46activity behind me, not l
00:49of see the kind of virga l
00:53rain shaft here. That wou
00:55over in that direction. Y
00:57lightens up a little bit
00:59going to see some of the
01:00down. He's there. This
01:01storm is weakening notice
01:02there isn't really a solid
01:04base on this storm. But when
01:06this storm was firing about
01:0845 minutes ago, it did spin
01:11up a little bit of a what
01:12like to be a land spout
01:13tornado. We'll show you this
01:14video here. This I got is
01:16just shortly after I got done
01:17with the hit the last hour,
01:18just what I thought initially
01:20might have been another dust
01:21devil. This actually was
01:23beneath the base of this
01:24developing storm. I was fully
01:26zoomed in on the camera when
01:27I was taking this video, but
01:29it certainly definitely got
01:30my attention and might have
01:31been a land spout. We've seen
01:33a couple of those also in
01:35Colorado. You heard the tornado
01:36warnings there. A couple of
01:37confirmed land spouts out of
01:39that. A lot of times when these
01:40storms we talked about it last
01:41hour, fire over boundaries that
01:43kind of exist, even the faster
01:45moving ones. Sometimes it's
01:46enough if you've got a strong
01:47enough updraft to pull that
01:49circulation from the surface,
01:50attach it to the clouds. And thus
01:52you get those brief landspout
01:53tornadoes that look like glorified dust
01:55devils had one or two of those
01:56there north of the airport in
01:58Denver. And then that one
01:59here I've changed directions
02:00because you feel the wind or
02:02you hear the wind blowing
02:03right now. That is the outflow
02:04from that storm you were just
02:05looking at. But notice the
02:06towers here. There's two of
02:07them. There's the big one
02:08that's right there. And then
02:09there's one that's kind of
02:10buried back in the clouds.
02:11That's starting to show up on
02:13radar is potentially another
02:14thunderstorm that's developing.
02:15And you see how crisp that
02:17updraft is right now is that
02:20outflow. This wind pushes up
02:22and gets underneath that storm. If
02:24that can kind of stay in
02:25residence under that storm long
02:26enough, sometimes those powerful
02:28updrafts can pull some of that
02:30circulation from those
02:31boundaries up. And that's how
02:32you get those landspout
02:33tornadoes. So that I would say
02:35right now is the biggest near
02:36term threat is a lot of these
02:38storms aren't really able to
02:39sustain themselves very long.
02:41They go up, they briefly
02:42pulse. We haven't seen much in
02:44the way of severe warnings down
02:45here on I 80. In fact, the
02:46report that I made didn't even
02:48prompt a tornado warning because
02:49it was so quick again, less than a
02:50minute that was turning around
02:52there. But it's something we're
02:53going to be watching out for on
02:54those newly developing cells.
02:56Those just across the border in
02:57the Nebraska panhandle about 15
02:59miles off to my east. So I'm
03:01going to pack up here, head to
03:03the east and get underneath those
03:04storms and kind of follow along
03:06with this outflow boundary that's
03:07moving from west to east along I
03:0980. See if we can't get a couple
03:11of more of these storms to produce
03:12some of those landspouts as those
03:14updrafts continue to kind of
03:15interact with these boundaries in
03:17the area. Stronger storms up north
03:19toward the Scotts Bluff area have had
03:20severe thunderstorm warnings with
03:22them. So a lower and severe
03:24weather day, but we've already
03:25seen a couple of weak tornadoes
03:26in Colorado and here in Wyoming
03:28as well. All right, Tony
03:29Laubach. It's been a while since
03:31I've heard the term glorified dust
03:33devil, but that's what we're
03:34going to be tracking here for
03:35some of these storms heading into
03:36this evening. We'll check in
03:37with you coming up. Thanks a lot.