A huge waterspout tornado stunned locals as it formed off Indonesia's coastline. Footage shows the twister touching down at ...

A waterspout tornado formed in an unusual right angle while churning through the sea between islands. Footage shows the long weather phenomenon extending from dark storm clouds with its lower half ...

Few people have ever studied a tornado, fewer still its nautical equivalent, a waterspout. ... 200 ft. in diameter, carries a great volume of water which it sucks from the sea.

A 2019 paper in the journal ScienceAdvances noted that Gulf of Mexico sea surface temperatures in April have a “robust dynamical linkage” to annual tornado accounts in the southern Great Plains.

Tornadic waterspouts are tornadoes that form over water or move from land to water. ... Priscilla loves writing about hikes, parks and weird sea (and land) creatures in San Antonio and Texas.

It’s Caused Tornados and Literally Moved the Sea. By Aaron Mak. Sept 10, 2017 7:07 PM. Palm trees blow in the wind as Hurricane Irma arrives in Southwest Florida. Spencer Platt/Getty Images.

Fair-weather ones are weak, brief and form from the surface of the sea, climbing towards the sky with hot air. A tornadic waterspout, on the other hand, is in essence a tornado.