WATCH: Big Piney Wyoming Twister, Last Saturday

Was that a tornado in Big Piney, Wyoming, this weekend, or do we call it something else?

Was it a tornado or a landspout?

This did not form from the cloud down but from the ground up. The good news is that it was way out in the fields and not over any structures.

I contacted Wyoming's meteorologist, Don Day of Day Weather, to ask him what we are looking at. Do we call it a "tornado?"

"I think we can call it a tornado or an extremely well-formed landspout," Day said. "The high cloud base is a bit unusual for a tornado, but probably splitting hairs."

A landspout is a type of non-supercell tornado that forms from the ground up.

A landspout is a slender, rope-like funnel connecting a growing cumulus cloud to the surface. Unlike traditional tornadoes that descend from a rotating storm cloud (mesocyclone), landspouts form when pre-existing surface-level rotation is stretched upward into the updraft of a developing thunderstorm.

Many other types of funnels look like tornadoes but are not.

Cold air funnels can appear very threatening and, like a funnel cloud, extend from the base of a cumulonimbus cloud. However, they usually form in weak, cold-core showers and rarely touch the ground or cause damage. We often see them over mountains, here in Wyoming.

Tail clouds are low-hanging, ragged clouds that can attach to a wall cloud and look like a tapered funnel. They are often confused with a "beaver tail" and can display rapid motion.