Double Waterspouts, Ocean Vortex Tornadoes Twisters, Honolulu, Waikiki, Hawaii, Hi 360 view

Amazing view from all sides of Honolulu's twin waterspouts! Monday afternoon, May 2, 2011, as land bases tornadoes were unleashing their destructive power all over the mainland, Hawaii was able to enjoy the beauty and wonder of twin waterspouts a few miles out in the Pacific Ocean. On the afternoon of May 2nd, people all over the south side of the Island of Oahu were privy to a beautiful show, for almost 15 minutes two large funnel clouds, or water twisters were seen dancing about, at one point even twisting around each other. This video will allow you to see the waterspout forming and dissolving into nothing.

This is a very rare phenomenon in Hawaii, even many Kama'aina have never seen this.

Waterspouts are intense columnar vortexes which generally appear as a funnel-shaped cloud or tube of water. They occur over water and are connected to a cumuliform cloud.

Basically speaking, a waterspout is a "non-super cell tornado, over water"

Waterspouts are usually weaker than land tornados however stronger versions can be spawned by mesocyclones. Contrary to the appearance of the ocean tornado and common belief, Waterspouts do not suck water up into the funnel rather the water you see in the main funnel cloud is the water formed by condensation within the cloud. Waterspouts tend to form in the tropics; however Europe and the Great Lakes have had them on occasion.

There are even lake-effect snow waterspouts although they are rare.

There are 5 parts to a waterspouts lifespan.
1. A dark spot forms on the water's surface.
2. A spiral pattern develops on the water surface.
3. Visible formation of a spray ring.
4. Visible condensation funnel develops.
5. Waterspout decays and dissipates.

I hope you enjoyed this video, please share with your friends.
http://tiny.cc/waterspouts

~Brice Beaman.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• supercell tornadoes
• double twisters
• dual waterspouts
• twin funnel clouds

[paisleyford]

so glad they are in the ocean sucking up sealife, instead of the folks watching them

[ckcelite]

@paisleyford That is FUNNY!

[ckcelite]

@paisleyford

But where does it drop all of the creatures from the sea? up on the top of buildings?

[ckcelite]

I just love this video at 0:32

[tegomassai]

oh my gosh

[Onemanband87]

Damn that sail boat looked awfully close to that vortex at 7:20...

[pshdatsooked]

This is how its going to look when the end of the world comes. fuck, i'll be camping at the top of the stairway to heaven.

[natalia]

changosssssssssss

[paisleyford]

Bradley. Fantastic display of Nature's fury. What is man that she should be even mindful of us! Thanks for sharing the splendor! Love Gma

[845763lola]

all my lifw i livwd in hawaii i never seen something like this pretty cool

[lazybuttman12]

Are waterspouts water inside a hurricane? o.o It sure looks like thats what it is

[duuudehahayousuck]

WOW! Would you look at that thing?! It's huge! How were you not scared? Haha.