A towering waterspout tornado ripped through coastal homes in Indonesia. Footage shows the massive rotating vortex peeling off roofs of houses as it hit land in South Sulawesi on January 27.

The Met Office confirmed the sightings, with forecasters saying the footage posted on social media showed a type of tornado called a waterspout. It was spotted by many locals in the Bonnyrigg and ...

A waterspout is an intense columnar vortex that occurs over a body of water A huge waterspout has been captured on video moving from the sea and hitting Italy's south-western city of Salerno.

A tornado warning was issued for the Washington Coast near southwestern Grays Harbor County due to a waterspout that was spotted near shore at approximately 4:35 p.m.

As pockets of snow work through Western Washington, a few of them have been vigorous enough to produce something very unusual ...

This makes a speed difference that also helps create the circulation. A waterspout is not a tornado. A tornado has dynamical wind energy throughout the atmosphere to create a much stronger ...

"So it is actually a tornado that forms underneath a thunderstorm." Ms Lingard said it was possible for waterspouts to move ... "Either a big storm or a tall, cumulonimbus cloud, which is going ...

It was no match for the waterspout. The whirling columns of air and water mist occur over bodies of water. They’re usually weaker than tornadoes, but they can potentially cause as much damage as ...

A waterspout outbreak in the depths of winter? That’s exactly what the International Centre For Waterspout Research is forecasting for most of the Great Lakes. The Canada-based weather research ...