None really. A waterspout occurs on water and a landspout is essentially the same thing on land.
Though a smaller percentage of waterspouts are actually classic supercell tornadoes on water.
It depends, there are two types of waterspout.
There are fair-weather waterspouts which typically form when cold air moves over a warm body of water. Although they connect to the cloud base like a tornado, they are usually weak, no stronger than an EF1 tornado and have internal mechanics more like those of a dust devil.
Then there are tornadic waterspouts, these form from supercell thunderstorms and are really just tornadoes that happen to be on water.
A waterspout is essentially a tornado on water, though they usually form by a different mechanism of typical tornadoes. Waterspouts are small in weather terms, rarely exceeding a few hundred feet in size and are dependent on a parent storm cloud.
A hurricane is an entirely different type of storm. They are huge, typically hundreds of miles wide and, most importantly, are independent, self-sustaining storm systems.
Usually a waterspout will dissipate quickly if it hits land. Those that are don't dissipate immediately are often counted as tornadoes, though they rarely cause more than minor damage and few are stronger than EF0.
A water spout forms over water and a land tornado forms over land. A water spout is a tornado that is formed by sucking up the water which makes it a water tornado called a '' water spout''.
A waterspout forms on water. A tornado forms on land.
A waterspout basically is a tornado only on water.
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 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".
Fair weather (non tornadic) waterspouts usually dissipate once they hit land. A tornadic waterspout just continues on land as a regular tornado.
It just keeps on going, unaffected. At this point it is called a waterspout.
No, they can form over water. At that point it is called a tornadic waterspout.
nothing unless it hits land
Yes, a landspout is essentially a waterspout on land.
Yes... It's a Tornado, but the difference of a waterspout hits a body of water. And a Tornado hits a body of land.
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 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".
Fair weather (non tornadic) waterspouts usually dissipate once they hit land. A tornadic waterspout just continues on land as a regular tornado.
it floods the land
If a tornado hits a body of water (at which point it is called a waterspout) it can "suck up" some unlucky fish. These fall back to earth a little later.
it erodes the land and becomes a beach, lol.
They can form on either on water or on land, but it is more common for them to form on land. A tornado on water is called a waterspout.
Waterspout is the correct term. If a tornado forms on water by the same mechanisms that it would form on land (i.e. from the mesocyclone of a supercell) it is called a tornadic waterspout.
it changes directions