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waterspout::noun | Spocien Dictionary
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A waterspout is defined by the National Weather Service as a tornado over water.
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There are a couple of critical criteria for the formation of a winter waterspout.
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The only filtration available is a towel or sock wrapped around a waterspout.
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Picture a small waterspout trickling into a tiny pond of marsh plants.
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He goes on to describe sailing on a ship that's carried to the Moon by a giant waterspout.
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Various types of tornadoes include the landspout, multiple vortex tornado, and waterspout.
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The location was popularised when they discovered a waterspout in a granite bar across the river.
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Eventually, the waterspout becomes a visible funnel from the water surface to the overhead cloud.
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A waterspout turned into a tornado and ripped the roof off a building on a military complex, CNN said.
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- A tornado passing over water and picking up a column of water and mist
- Downpour: a heavy rain
- A channel through which water is discharged (especially one used for drainage from the gutters of a roof)
- 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 the common form, it is a non-supercell tornado over water. ...
- (Waterspouts) (Psa 42:7; marg. R.V., "cataracts"). If we regard this psalm as descriptive of David's feelings when banished from Jerusalem by the revolt of Absalom, this word may denote "waterfalls," inasmuch as Mahanaim, where he abode, was near the Jabbok, and the region abounded with rapids ...
- A small, weak tornado, which is not formed by a storm-scale rotation. It is generally weaker than a supercell tornado and is not associated with a wall cloud or mesocyclone. It may be observed beneath cumulonimbus or towering cumulus clouds and is the water equivalent of a landspout.
- A phenomenon consisting of an often violent whirlwind revealed by the presence of a cloud column or inverted cloud cone (funnel cloud), protruding from the base of a cumulonimbus, and of a bush composed of water droplets raised from the surface of the sea. ...
- Rapidly rotating column of air that forms over a large body of water, extending from the base of a cloud to the surface of the water.
- In general, a tornado occurring over water. Specifically, it normally refers to a small, relatively weak rotating column of air over water beneath a Cb or towering cumulus cloud. Waterspouts are most common over tropical or subtropical waters. The exact definition of waterspout is debatable. ...
