Large waterspout spotted off airport runway

| 20/10/2014

(CNS): A CNS reader captured an impressive image of a waterspout that had formed on the North Sound just off the Owen Roberts International Airport runway, Saturday. Fortunately there was no aircraft taking off at the time. Although not an uncommon weather phenomenon around Cayman this was a particularly large example of an intense columnar vortex. Waterspouts are non-supercell tornadoes, less powerful than land tornadoes and connected to towering cumuliform cloud or cumulonimbus cloud. Photo by Ian Hider

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  1. Anonymous says:

    I managed to get this one on video. If you YouTube 'Grand Cayman Water Tornado' you will see it. I got close enough to be able to hear it. Super Cool!

  2. Anonymous says:

    awesome sight it was.