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When do waterspouts form?
Waterspouts most often form when storms develop over water that is warmer than the air.
How many waterspouts form at the same time 3 waterspouts form at the same time how many waterspouts form at the same time?
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Can waterspouts form in small places or only big?
Waterspouts can form on small lakes, not just oceans.
Where do waterspouts form inthe U.S most often?
Waterspouts in the U.S. are most common around the Florida Keys and other waters near Florida. They are also not an uncommon sight on the Great Lakes.
Why aren't waterspouts as powerful as tornadoes?
Most waterspouts form by a different mechanism than the typical tornado. Tornadoes are most often a product of powerful rotating thunderstorms called supercells, the strongest thunderstorms on earth. Most waterspouts don't form from supercells, but are a result of the instability that occurs when cool air moves over warm water, which doesn't provide as much power.
Can waterspouts form over swimming pool?
Not really. Waterspouts require a much larger body of water to form, such as a lake. However, there are land based cousins of waterspouts called landspouts. In structure they are more like waterspouts than normal tornadoes. It is possible for one to strike a swimming pool, but it would be purely coincidental.
Can waterspouts form under water?
No. Waterspouts are spinning columns of air, similar to tornadoes. They form as a result of conditions just above the water's surface, rather than in the water itself.
How would a watersprout tornado look differerent than a tornado that forms over land?
Most waterspouts have a a more tubelike appearance while most land based tornadoes are more funnel shaped. This has mostly to do with the fact that most waterspouts form and are driven by a different mechanism than most land tornadoes.
Does wind form waterspouts?
Fair-weather waterspouts form primarily as a result of the air just above the water surface being warmer than air above. This is enhanced by the updraft of a developing storm. Tornadic waterspouts form just like tornadoes on land, from complex interactions of wind currents in a supercell thunderstorm.
Why do waterspouts spin slower than tornadoes?
Typical waterspouts form by a different mechanism from tornadoes. Most tornadoes are produced by the mesocyclone of a supercell, the most powerful type of thunderstorm on earth. By contrast most waterspouts form during non-severe thunderstorms, and can even form from large cumulus clouds. So the reason they are not as strong is simply because they don't have a very strong power source compared with tornadoes. However, sometimes a tornado produced by a supercell either forms on or moves out over water. In such a case it is called a tornadic waterspout.
Do tornadoes form over land?
Tornadoes usually form on land, but they can form on water in which case they are called waterspouts.
What are tornadoes or waterspouts made of?
Tornadoes and waterspouts are essentially spinning columns of wind. Water vapor condenses to form the visible funnel cloud, and dust and debris, or water spray in the case of a waterspout may be lifted into the vortex as well. But for the most part they are made of air.
