Hey today there was a tornado waterspout in the ocean. First ever tornado i have seen in my life. Its classed as a waterspout which is really similar to a tornado, and have been known to move onto land and cause damage, winds can be more than 200 miles per hour! It hit at around 11:20am and lasted only a few min then the storm went out to sea. Later tonight when i was driving home we got a massive storm, i think the storm swung back around.
The tornado/waterspout was so exciting, every1 ran out to see it, and i was busy taking pics, didnt even have time to think of the danger, lol. :eek2: This is a pretty big one, i reckon about an F1 on the fujita scale and it was really amazing the size was bigger in real then see in the pics.
http://photoadelaide.com/bcnulata/106_0681.jpg
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These are sighted often at sea near Cronulla. They are harmful, hardly a tornado

when compared to this waterspout http://www.spc.noaa.gov/faq/tornado/wtrspout.htm i think the newcastle one was big, and yeah they are basically the same as a tornado and are capable of the same damage.

These are sighted often at sea near Cronulla. They are harmful, hardly a tornado
Hardly a tornado? A waterspout is a tornado formed over water!

wooooooooooo

too cool :)

I was skating on the foreshore all afternoon and just missed it, I was around the Crowne Plaza when it must have happened. I did see the storms off the coast of Newcastle Beach later that day though.

Damn to be there and miss all the action is tragic!

lol @ Avatar skating.

Great pics Stocko!! :)

A few years ago a water spout formed somewhere off the coast of England. Tourists were so excited that they rushed to the shore to take pictures.. standing only a few hundred metres from it. Tragedy struck when the waterspout dissipated and the remaining water came down on top of them... drowning many.. funny when you think about it MWAH HA HA HA HA! But not funny in real life :(

Sorry bout lack of details but its a true story!

Ever since i watched the Wizard of Oz when i was a little boy.. ive always wanted to be in the path of an oncoming tornado. LOL.

great photos there did not hear about this at all on the news

great photos there did not hear about this at all on the news

was in the paper the other day

i have seen a two water spouts like a few weeks ago off the gold coast and a year ago there was a big one off main beach

Were these pictures taken at Swansea?

A few of these have also been seen here in townsville recently, between the Strand and Magnetic Island.

omg i cant believe this thread has come back up. lol. It was a long long time since i took those pics, well before i went 2 england for the yr. But still its cool 2 see the photos again cause i lost them on my computer.
Anyway have u managed to get any pics of the ones near townsville?

But still its cool 2 see the photos again cause i lost them on my computer.

I trust then you have saved them again. lol ;)

Anyway, i haven't seen this thread before. Nice work with the pics

Thanks. Yeah the pics turned out quite good considering i grabbed the camera and ran outside and started shooting as i ran towards the beach. It was such a crazy storm as well, caused damage at the uni and closed it for like 2 days. Oh and i think the pics are on my old computer somewhere maybe.

Hardly a tornado? A waterspout is a tornado formed over water!

While this is the wide belief, it isn't quite true.

A waterspout is formed by different processes to a tornado and is significantly weaker. Obviously a very weak tornado can be the same strength as a waterspout but while they look the same they really are not. The real dangerous ones are the tornadoes over water that form from non-waterspout processes, purely tornadic from supercell thunderstorms and are just as dangerous on water as on land. Hence these are more appropriately termed 'Tornadic waterspouts'

Great pics tho mate

omg i cant believe this thread has come back up. lol. It was a long long time since i took those pics, well before i went 2 england for the yr. But still its cool 2 see the photos again cause i lost them on my computer.
Anyway have u managed to get any pics of the ones near townsville?

Nah, there have been a few things in the paper about some guy seeing one down the strand, It is an actual Waterspout, cause it didn't form of a storm, we hardly ever get supercell storms up here, so its more one where you go near it, you won't get killed.

Im more sure this would have been a tornado forming over the water more than a waterspout Skeletor. The main reasons i say that is cause there was a massive storm associated with it, a destructive storm. Anywho even if it wasnt it was still really wicked and a day i will never forget.

Purely going by the pics very hard to say but I'd be calling it a waterspout purely due to lack of a wall cloud and mesocyclone needed for clear tornadic observation. Sounds picky I know but thats the classification. Might well have been a storm as such, but multicellular thunderstorms (non rotating updraft) can still easily give a decent waterspout given correct atmopsheric conditions.

When exactly was this (date wise)? Be much easier to clarify what is is then by knowing if supercellular conditions existed that day or not.

i think it was the day before i originally posted it, so like in 18 or 19th of september 2004.

Do you people here remember the tornadic waterspout which terrorized the Sydney to Hobart yacht race on Dec. 25, 2001?

This really was a tornadic waterspout, since not only was it an unusually powerful waterspout, the parent storm was also a supercell.

http://www.sydneystormchasers.com/frontphotos/2612.jpg

http://www.sydneystormchasers.com/tornadoarchive/pictures/12-26-01-04.jpg

http://www.sydneystormchasers.com/tornadoarchive/pictures/12-26-01-01.jpg

http://www.sydneystormchasers.com/tornadoarchive/pictures/12-26-01-05.jpg

http://www-das.uwyo.edu/~geerts/cwx/notes/chap07/waterspout_files/image002.jpg

http://www-das.uwyo.edu/~geerts/cwx/notes/chap07/waterspout_files/image004.jpg

http://www-das.uwyo.edu/~geerts/cwx/notes/chap07/waterspout_files/image006.jpg

http://www.torresen.com/news/atwos/2002/ja/0102/ms.htm2.jpg