waterspout
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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.
In Orange County, a possible tornado or waterspout moved ashore around 10:15 p.m.
From Los Angeles Times
“Convective storms will bring increased risk of strong to locally damaging winds, lightning, small hail, and isolated waterspouts,” the weather service office in Oxnard said just before 2 p.m.
From Los Angeles Times
Sometimes they form on land, or they begin as waterspouts — a tornado over the ocean — and move onto land.
From Los Angeles Times
Conditions are favorable for rotating storms, capable of isolated waterspouts/tornadoes.
From Los Angeles Times
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