waterspout
Example Sentences
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Holding it down causes waterspouts to spin up all around you, dancing on their tails, merging and splitting—the immersiveness comes courtesy of a speaker in the driver’s headrest.
There is a risk of waterspouts or small tornadoes.
From Los Angeles Times
There were even reports of winter waterspouts — akin to devilish vortexes of stream — on Lake Champlain and over the open Atlantic.
From Washington Post
Low-level convergence, or the gathering of air near the surface, meanwhile, could even support a remote waterspout over the lake — something meteorologists reported observing coming to pass early Friday.
From Washington Post
A tornado called a waterspout brought winds of up to 110 kilometers an hour, or 68 miles per hour, to the University of British Columbia campus in Vancouver.
From New York Times
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