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 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 ...

Just a like a regular tornado tornadic waterspouts start from the cloud and works its way down towards to the service. They typically form from severe storms and supercells and they just form over ...