This is the moment a huge landspout tornado ripped through field in northern Thailand this afternoon (June 11). <br /><br />The narrow funnel was seen stretching down from the dark grey storm clouds in Sakon Nakhon province on the border with Laos at around 5pm local time. <br /><br />Shocked locals watched as the elephant trunk tornado tore through the rice field before slowly dissipating.<br /><br />Resident Khanti, who recorded the video, said: ''There was a a lot of rain and strong wind all day. Then there was a thunder storm and that when I saw the tornado. It lasted for about three minutes.''<br /><br />The landspout tornado formed while the region experienced tropical thunderstorms and flash floods today, with the country moving into its annual rainy season.<br /><br />Landspout tornadoes are a type of non-supercell tornado. They are not as dangerous as supercell tornadoes and they are formed when a vertically spinning parcel of air already occurring near the ground comes in contact with an updraft, that stretches the rotating column.<br /><br />Waterspouts are similar to landspouts, except they occur over water.
