Are there different kinds of tornadoes?
Some tornadoes may form during the early stages of rapidly developing thunderstorms. They spin up when an storm’s updraft picks up a low-level spinning vortex and tilts up upward. It then stretches it making it spin faster. These types of tornadoes are most common along the front range of the Rocky Mountains, in the Plains and the Western states. They are called “landspouts” because they look and form much like waterspouts. See the next question for more about waterspouts.
