Another Colorado chase: several funnels, hail, and possibly one brief landspout tornado.

Once again, Weld County magic set up in my front yard and it was an easy catch with storms only moving at 10mph. Found some small hail, very heavy rain (which produced some flooding in Fort Collins), and several funnel clouds. This storm tried for hours to produce a tornado and I was right under it the entire time. A trained weather spotter called the National Weather Service to report a tornado, which there definitely was not at the time because I would have been in it! I would like to see our Spotter Network be more careful in what they call a tornado as this was definitely a false alarm. However, about 30 minutes later, I noticed some dust spinning up in a field just one mile from my location. Sure enough, a small landspout (non-supercell) tornado was trying to form. I noticed a small funnel at cloud base just above the spinning dust, and the dust had rotation and lifted rapidly. However, I never saw a fully condensed funnel so I'm hesitant to call it a tornado. In any case, it only lasted about 45 seconds and did no damage in this very rural area near Keensburg, Colorado. So, almost got my hat-trick, maybe I did, who knows. This photo is of two funnel clouds, which at first I thought were just "scud", but they both showed slight rotation and were firmly connected to the cloud base.