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 ...

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 ...

It happened in Kapalua Bay. People were still in the water at the time. Waterspouts are similar to tornadoes over water. They are associated with severe thunderstorms and often accompanied by high ...

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 ...

"It lasted about five minutes. The sky had been dark and overcast since morning, like rain was coming," she said, noting that waterspouts and tornadoes are occasionally seen in the Phu Quoc area ...