A trained weather spotter confirmed the waterspout was close to making landfall. The warning lasted until about 5 p.m. when the threat of a tornado had passed. CHIME IN | Share your weather video ...

The Met Office confirmed the sightings, with forecasters saying that footage posted on social media showed a type of tornado called a waterspout. It was spotted by people living in Bonnyrigg and ...

This makes a speed difference that also helps create the circulation. A waterspout is not a tornado. A tornado has dynamical wind energy throughout the atmosphere to create a much stronger ...

Both waterspouts and downbursts can see winds of about 125mph created, he said. Dr Pieter Groenemeijer, director of the European Severe Storms Laboratory, added that while waterspouts are common ...

Waterspouts are similar to tornadoes, but they form over a body of water. Irish mountain farmers use their dogs to find their flock trapped under several feet of snow. People in Moscow speak to ...

A tornado warning was issued for the Washington Coast near southwestern Grays Harbor County due to a waterspout that was spotted near shore at approximately 4:35 p.m.

"If a tornado forms over land, we call it a tornado – if it forms over water, we call it a waterspout. "So it is actually a tornado that forms underneath a thunderstorm." Ms Lingard said it was ...

With those factors added together, there was little to stop the tornado (at that point a waterspout) from becoming a monster. It emerged as a violent tornado near Smith Point in Chambers County on ...

A waterspout outbreak in the depths of winter? That’s exactly what the International Centre For Waterspout Research is forecasting for most of the Great Lakes. The Canada-based weather research ...

The tornado started as a waterspout and came onshore near the Bogue Inlet Pier, the NWS said. “Numerous RV-style homes were tossed and rolled more than 30 feet, ripping out ground anchors that ...