Twin Waterspouts dazzle onlookers over Lake Michigan
Source: Dueling “twin waterspouts” dazzled onlookers Thursday afternoon over lake Michigan off Kenosha, Wisconsin. Check out these incredible photos captured by the the Kenosha Police Department. Waterspouts are relatively rare in the Upper Midwest. The spouts are simply tornadoes over water thus the name. The storms are spawned from parent thunderstorms just as they are over land when they are called tornadoes.
Source: Dueling “twin waterspouts” dazzled onlookers Thursday afternoon over lake Michigan off Kenosha, Wisconsin. Check out these incredible photos captured by the the Kenosha Police Department. Waterspouts are relatively rare in the Upper Midwest. The spouts are simply tornadoes over water thus the name. The storms are spawned from parent thunderstorms just as they are over land when they are called tornadoes.
Conditions were perfect along the shore of Lake Michigan for the twisters, with plenty of low level wind shear…twisting winds near the surface. No damage was reported and the apparently twisters did not move over land.
Image: Officer Eric Larsen Kenosha Police Department
Twin twisters danced of the Lake Michigan shoreline around 1:30pm this afternoon. The Milwaukee NWS issued special marine warnings alerting boaters of the danger.
Image: Officer Mike Madsen Kenosha Police Department
Here’s some good video shot by Diane Giles from the Kenosha News.
Heres’ the storm report from the Milwaukee NWS.
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