See it: Mammoth dust devil swirls close to Florida home
Shawn Brown said he captured the phenomenon on video outside his home in Mayo on April 10.
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"What do we got? A tornado here, or what?" he joked in the video.
The dust devil, which Brown described as "hundreds of feet tall," was seen sucking up dirt and debris from a field as it slowly spun across the landscape.
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Dust devils typically form in fair weather on sunny, hot days with light winds. The intense heating along the ground causes a vast difference in temperature within a few hundred feet. The heated air then soars upward as the surface winds provide some spin, making it look like a tornado.
Dust devils usually only last a few minutes and have low enough wind speeds to rarely cause damage.Original article source: See it: Mammoth dust devil swirls close to Florida home
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