EDEN — SweetwaterNOW reader Becky Cordova submitted these photos taken by her husband David Cordova. David was on the way home from his job as a Crane Operator when he stopped near Eden and took these photos.

Brett McDonald Science and Operations Officer at the National Weather Service Office in Riverton said that, “Based on our interpretation of the pictures, and combining that with radar data at the approximate time, we believe that the pictures are indeed of a tornado.  This tornado is typically called a landspout tornado, one in which the circulation is first generated near the ground and then rises up to connect with weak circulation in the lowest levels of the thunderstorm.  They are very short-lived, and in Wyoming do exactly what the pictures show – swirling dust at the surface with not much of a condensation funnel showing a connection to the cloud.  I would classify this tornado as an EF0 on the Enhanced Fujita scale.”