Waterspout report

[Eric Flescher]

Saw a waterspout on the new KMBC in Kansas City of a very tall waterspout.

Not sure if it is this one that has photos (it was wider)

http://www.wunderground.com/wximage/viewsingleimage.html?mode=singleimage&handle=NCBeechbum&number=43&album_id=14&thumbstart=3&gallery=CURRWEATHER (http://www.wunderground.com/wximage/viewsingleimage.html?mode=singleimage&handle=NCBeechbum&number=43&album_id=14&thumbstart=3&gallery=CURRWEATHER)


any of you see this report?
anybody ever seen a waterspout? location, time, circumstances

[Shane Adams]

The image where the "feature" is vertical had me fooled...but closer inspection of the other three images makes me think this was an optical illusion that fooled a laymen. I could always be wrong but it sure looks like a helluva look-a-like when you look at all four images in the sequence.

Unless I'm wrong, this is yet another inaccurate weather story hitting the press.

[Tim Vasquez]

It looks like a simple outflow or frontal passage cloud with a unique combination of parallax and haze. I made a simple animation and attempted to crudely "stabilize" the field of view, as seen here:

http://www.weathergraphics.com/tim/torn-anim.gif

Plus on the earlier frames you can see no vertical development to this cloud line. If someone is trying to pass this off as a waterspout, I wonder who it is and what the motives are for propagating erroneous information. As with the "Katrina" pics it may be worth considering whether the pics are stolen, too.

Tim

[Jim Saueressig]

No water spout there, you can see it continue on around to the right on the horizon. just a line or outflow of sorts.

[Tim Thomas]

I agree - definitely not a waterspout. I have seen countless waterspouts over lake Ontario, all very thin, narrow, and develop under towering cumulus towers when a cold airmass moves over the warm waters typically from late August through October.

Tim.

[JIM SELLARS]

Gravity wave?....Maybe"

[Daniel Christianson]

Looks like a weak roll cloud, i mean the edge of one overhead, but its for sure not a waterspout...