Trained weather spotters spotted some weather Wednesday afternoon when they saw “a well-defined waterspout just west of the Long Beach peninsula in Washington," according to the National Weather Service in Portland.
A waterspout is a swirling column of water. If it comes ashore, it becomes a tornado.
Tornados and waterspouts aren’t especially common in Oregon and Washington, though officials confirmed an EF-0 tornado hit Rockaway Beach on the Oregon coast earlier this month.
On Tuesday, the coast began to experience a “bomb cyclone,” which brought high waves and wind.
Wednesday’s waterspout was observed between 3:16 p.m. and 3:30 p.m.
The National Weather Service, in a post on Facebook, said the current storm is “still capable of producing waterspouts,” noting that a tornado warning was in effect for the area until 4:30 p.m. Wednesday.
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