A waterspout is an intense columnar vortex (usually appearing as a funnel-shaped cloud) that occurs over a body of water and is connected to a cumuliform cloud.
In other words, a tornado on water.
Water has a very high specific heat capacity, meaning that a body of water will not change temperature very easily. As a result it is not uncommon for some bodies of water to be warmer than the air above them. This creates a layer of warmer air just above the water's surface. If there is enough convection in the area to form thunderstorms, or even just towering cumulus clouds, and updraft can develop from this layer of warm air that feeds into the cloud. If there is any twist to the wind in the area (which can develop from ordinary turbulence) the updraft could take on the rotation and develop into the vortex of a waterspout.
the water gets sucked up by the waterspout and creates a whirl wind in the water
A waterspout it a tornado that forms on a body of water. It looks like a land formed tornado but on a smaller scale.
A tornado that touches down on water sucks up water and is known as a water-sprout.
a waterspout is plainly a tornado over a body of water.
A tornado that moves onto water becomes a waterspout.
A tornado on a body of water is called a waterspout.
Yes. A tornado on water is called a waterspout.
A waterspout can transition from water to land but becomes a tornado as long as it is touching land; if it is not touching the ground it would be called a "funnel cloud".
Yes... It's a Tornado, but the difference of a waterspout hits a body of water. And a Tornado hits a body of land.
A tornado is called a waterspout anywhere that it forms on water.
A tornado on water is called a waterspout.
A tornado that forms on a lake or sea is called a waterspout.
A synonym for waterspout would be tornado.
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A tornado on water is called a waterspout.
Usually the term waterspout refers to a tornado on a body of water.
Well, yes and no. If the waterspout comes ashore and hits the beach house, it can destroy it. But if the waterspout comes ashore, it is no longer a waterspout - it is a tornado.
A tornado over water is called a waterspout.
A tornado on a body of water is called a waterspout.
A tornado that moves onto water becomes a waterspout.
The tornado (or more properly, waterspout) was not given a name as tornadoes are not named.