In a video, onlookers watch as the fast-moving waterspout makes landfall on Smith Island Anna Lazarus Caplan is a writer-reporter for PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2022. Her work ...

It was gone as fast as it formed.' Two types of tornadoes form at sea - tornadic waterspouts and fair-weather waterspouts. Tornadic waterspouts form from thunderstorms, just like land tornadoes ...

Waterspouts are similar to tornadoes but form over water and are generally weaker. There are two types - tornadic waterspouts and fair weather waterspouts. Tornadic waterspouts form over water or ...