waterspouts in English

noun
1
a rotating column of water and spray formed by a whirlwind occurring over the sea or other body of water.
Tornadic thunderstorms can also produce waterspouts and downbursts.
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1. 1 A series of white waterspouts soon rose in the harbor.

2. Initially, residents believed that waterspouts transported tremendous amounts of water to the island, triggering the floods.

3. Among their hazards are heavy rain, hailstorms, flash floods and their associated landslides, high elevation snow, high winds which result in large surf and swells, and waterspouts.

4. Psalms 42:7 View whole chapter See verse in context Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts: all thy waves and thy Billows are gone over me

5. 1874 January 9, "Chemical News from Foreign Sources," Chemical News, page 26, of waterspouts: The vis viva of these Affluxes is employed almost wholly in turning the mass of intermediate gas […]

6. Observations of such phenomena such as waterspouts, St. Elmo’s Fire, abnormal refractions, haloes, rainbows, meteors, and other astronomical phenomena, aurora, ocean currents, birds or unusual marine life are most welcome and the observer will be making a valuable contribution to our knowledge of these subjects.