LINKS TO INFORMATION ABOUT WATERSPOUTS

National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL)
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)

Waterspouts Hit a Yacht Race Down Under (12/27/01)

Photo Gallery

The Great Waterspout in Vineyard Sound, August 19, 1896. Second spout of the storm Photograph taken from Cottage City at 1:02 P.M. In Monthly Weather Review, July 1906, p. 356. Figure 27
(NOAA Photo Library)
A waterspout off the Florida Keys photographed from an aircraft.
Location: Florida Keys, Florida
Photo Date: 1969 September 10
Photographer: Dr. Joseph Golden, NOAA
(NOAA Photo Library)
Mature stage of waterspout with contracting spiral pattern.
Location: Florida Keys, Florida
Photo Date: 1969 September 10
Photographer: Dr. Joseph Golden, NOAA
(NOAA Photo Library)

Location: offshore from Albania on a ferry between Greece and Italy, Adriatic Sea
Photo Date: 1999 August
Photographer: Robert Giudici
(http://www.astrogeo.va.it/immagini/cielo/giudici.htm)
A sailing vessel in peril from multiple waterspouts.
In "Les Meteores", Margolle et Zurcher, 3rd Edition, 1869.


Waterspouts (NOAA/National Weather Service Office, Key West, Florida).

Waterspouts (Bruce B. Smith, Meteorologist Science and Operations Officer, NWS Gaylord, Michigan)

Concepts of Severe Storm Spotting: How to identify waterspouts and tornadoes in the field. (NOAA/National Weather Service Office, Key West, Florida)

Waterspouts on Lake Tahoe: Includes pictures and a scientific article on these particular waterspouts.

Boater's safety during waterspouts and other links (USA Today)


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David Schultz schultz@nssl.noaa.gov
Last update: 2 January 2002

Number of hits:

(initiated 3/21/01).