Archive for the ‘Waterspouts’ Category

Insane footage taken today by a TV tower cam of the Springfield, Massachusetts tornado as it developed and raked across the river into town.  Some fatalities have been reported and major damage has also been confirmed.  Couplets like this don’t go without doing some kind of damage….

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MOBILE, Ala. — Bob Barnett, manager of Technip’s facility off Dauphin Island Parkway in south Mobile County, spotted this waterspout about 10 a.m. Monday morning as a line of thunderstorms moved through the area.

Using a small, digital camera, he snapped several pictures of the waterspout as it crept south behind a rig moored at Alabama State Docks property. It was gone in about five to 10 minutes, he said.

Barnett, who has managed the facility for the past three years, said he’s seen several waterspouts at the site before, but this is the first one he’s seen this year.

The waterspout caused no damage, he said.

Paris-based Technip established its Theodore facility in 2001. Since then, it has become one of the company’s most prolific spoolbases, so called because lengths of pipe for deepwater oil and gas exploration are spooled from there onto a vessel for shipment and installation in the Gulf of Mexico.

Source: AL.COM