SEE: 'Landspout' Tornado Touches Down In Nebraska Town

A so-called "landspout" tornado touched down in a small Nebraska town Monday evening, as severe weather moved across the Great Plains on Memorial Day.

Residents of Sidney — a town of less than 7,000 people in the Western part of the state — took to social media to share photos of the event. It's unclear what, if any, damage the landspout caused.

The term "landspout" was coined in 1985 and, as its name suggests, is similar to a waterspout except on land, with dust and dirt being sucked up into the narrow funnel.

The NOAA characterizes landspouts as having a "narrow, rope-like condensation funnel extending from cloud base to the ground" and says they are not full-fledged supercell tornados.

But enough with the history and meteorology lesson.

Check out photos from the ground of the one that hit Monday:

The National Weather Service has not reported any supercell tornados in the area Monday afternoon. Western Nebraska was under a tornado watch.

Main image via @P_Town_Rocks on Twitter, used with permission