Torando at sea?

Question

is a tornado is at sea does it turn into a whirlpool or does the tornado just go ontop of it like ground

Answer 1

A tornado at sea is called a waterspout. Waterspouts can easily overturn boats and create hazardous seas. If you come in contact with a waterspout move about 90 degrees to it's apparent movement and head to shore immediately. A waterspout does not cause whirlpools.

Answer 2

it will turn into a water spout waterspout is an intense columnar vortex (usually appearing as a funnel-shaped cloud) that occurs over a body of water and is connected to a cumuliform cloud. In the common form, it is a nonsupercell tornado over water, and brings the water upward. Also, it is weaker than most of its land counterparts.[1]

[edit] Formation

Waterspouts exist on a microscale, where their environment is less than two kilometers in width. Their bigger cloud that develops them can be as innocuous as a moderate cumulus, or as great as a supercell. While some waterspouts are strong (tornadic) like their land-based counterparts, most are much weaker and caused by different atmospheric dynamics. They normally develop in moisture-laden environments with little vertical wind shear along lines of convergence, such as land breezes, lake effect bands, lines of frictional convergence from nearby landmasses, or surface troughs. Waterspouts normally develop as their parent clouds are in the process of development, and it is theorized that they spin up as they move up the surface boundary from the horizontal shear near the surface, and then stretch upwards to the cloud once the low level shear vortex aligns with a developing cumulus or thunderstorm. Weak tornadoes, known as landspouts, have been shown to develop in a similar manner.[2]

an here what a whirl pool iswater moving rapidly in a circle so as to produce a depression in the center into which floating objects may be drawn

Answer 3

It's a waterspout, I think.

Very similar to a tornado; it is in a spinning cyclone above the water, but the cyclone is made of water.

Answer 4

It's called a waterspout, and it skims the surface just like on land.

Answer 5

a tornado at sea is called a waterspout

and is not as violent as a tornado on land

Answer 6

a torando at sea is like a whirlpool