A towering waterspout tornado ripped through coastal homes in Indonesia. Footage shows the massive rotating vortex peeling ...

They occur as tornadic waterspouts or fair weather waterspouts. Tornadic waterspouts move from land to water or form over ...

They can form either as a tornadic waterspout, which develops from a supercell thunderstorm, or the more common fair-weather waterspout, which forms in calm conditions without severe storms.