Waterspout
![A waterspout near Florida. The two flares with smoke trails near the bottom of the photograph are for indicating wind direction and general speed.](/Images/godic/202502/11/Trombe5249.jpg")
![Non-tornadic waterspouts seen from the beach at Kijkduin near The Hague, the Netherlands on 27 August 2006.](/Images/godic/202502/11/Three_waterspouts_Kijkduin5249.jpg")
![Tornadic waterspout on 15 July 2005 off the coast of Punta Gorda, Florida, caused by a severe thunderstorm.](/Images/godic/202502/11/Punta_Gorda_waterspout5249.jpg")
![A large winter waterspout over Lake Ontario, just off the shore of Whitby, Ontario on 26 January 1994.](/Images/godic/202502/11/Winter_waterspout5249.jpg")
A waterspout is an intense columnar vortex (usually appearing as a funnel-shaped cloud) that occurs over a body of water. They are connected to a towering cumuliform cloud or a cumulonimbus cloud. In the common form, it is a non-supercell tornado over water.