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. This one was a tornadic waterspout so developed downward during a thunderstorm and was accompanied by high winds. The president's recent ...

Twin waterspouts forming from the sky to the sea recently surprised visitors at popular Florida beach. Waterspouts usually disperse after about five minutes but their associated wind can move at ...