My first Tornado, Spain.

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My first Tornado, Spain.

Postby waspiflab » Tue Sep 29, 2009 7:07 am

Sat in a bar on holidays in Albir in Spain on Tuesday and just caught a cool tornado coming across the ocean. First one I've ever seen even if not quite an F5.

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Re: My first Tornado, Spain.

Postby Mobius » Tue Sep 29, 2009 3:47 pm

Beat me to one! ;)

Over here we would call that a waterspout if it was over the ocean (a landspout if it was over the land), essentially a tornado not associated with a supercell thunderstorm.

Nice catch! :)
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Re: My first Tornado, Spain.

Postby OVERLORD_CHRIS » Tue Sep 29, 2009 5:49 pm

Nice, I thought it was going to be a plane.
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Re: My first Tornado, Spain.

Postby Leigh » Tue Sep 29, 2009 7:34 pm

pft a plane picture on a site like this!

ive never seen one but well done :D
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Re: My first Tornado, Spain.

Postby BFMF » Wed Sep 30, 2009 6:37 pm

That looks like a small funnel cloud. We get funnel clouds out here every once in a while... ;)
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Re: My first Tornado, Spain.

Postby a1 » Wed Sep 30, 2009 7:50 pm

I don't know why but funnels at sea seems scarier than on land.  :o
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Re: My first Tornado, Spain.

Postby EJW » Sun Oct 04, 2009 12:02 pm

You'll sometimes see waterspouts in the Wash estuary near where I live. Yup, waterspouts in the East Midlands.
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Re: My first Tornado, Spain.

Postby Willit Run » Tue Oct 06, 2009 9:18 pm

Great catch!!  8-)

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