Ezzie Posted July 31, 2013 Report Share Posted July 31, 2013 Sighted out in the lake - 2 of them around 8:00 - 8:15 AM this morning. One became huge and dissipated over the west end of the Lake, the other near the east end became pencil thin then dissipated before it became very large. Got some pics from my angle near the Chapala Golf Club so will try and post them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShanConshue Posted July 31, 2013 Report Share Posted July 31, 2013 Where are you posting them? I want to see Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carmelbaloney Posted July 31, 2013 Report Share Posted July 31, 2013 Heres the video i shot this morning from Las Salvias. Is there another way to post videos? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fordtruckman Posted July 31, 2013 Report Share Posted July 31, 2013 Kewl! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
k2tog Posted July 31, 2013 Report Share Posted July 31, 2013 I've never seen one of these -- that way very cool -- thanks for capturing and sharing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johanson Posted July 31, 2013 Report Share Posted July 31, 2013 Thank God it broke up before hitting shore. Some of you may remember the flooding in San Juan Cosala maybe 8 years ago Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
giltner68 Posted July 31, 2013 Report Share Posted July 31, 2013 Pete, it was 6 years ago because I was just moving down here and looking at houses in the Racquet Club - until then and I called my rental agency and said "BIGGIE CHANGE OF PLANS" and ended up in Riberas where I couldn't be happier (other than CFE & water) - ha. But, as suspected, the S shore is holding out on us, we got .05", Rancho del Oro got .04" and the S shore got .19" - now, where is the fairness in that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Saltos Posted July 31, 2013 Report Share Posted July 31, 2013 Which was NOT caused by a water spout. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Saltos Posted July 31, 2013 Report Share Posted July 31, 2013 Yes, I remember SJC and the Raquet Club flooding and landslide which was NOT caused by a water spout. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
behnwau Posted July 31, 2013 Report Share Posted July 31, 2013 Which was NOT caused by a water spout. Correct. It was a freak short lived heavy downpour of immense magnitude hitting the mountain above the Racquet Club. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Denver Posted July 31, 2013 Report Share Posted July 31, 2013 Wow! Interesting. Any news and/or video of the 2nd water spout? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
giltner68 Posted July 31, 2013 Report Share Posted July 31, 2013 Yes, it was likely a massive cell over the wrong place, but it's more fun to tell friends NOB that it was a waterspout and the latest pic is on the local weather site, when's the last time anyone in Kansas saw one of those? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johanson Posted July 31, 2013 Report Share Posted July 31, 2013 Yes, I believed it was a water spout until I learned otherwise today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Travis Posted July 31, 2013 Report Share Posted July 31, 2013 Great video. Thanks. The horrible thing that happened in San Juan Cosala is called a "tromba", I think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johanson Posted July 31, 2013 Report Share Posted July 31, 2013 Yes "tromba" was what I was told, which means water spout (But I "aint no" expert) in my dictionary. All I know is that it was a lot of rain in a short period of time in a very small area and that various other areas lakeside have had the same happen to them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cedros Posted July 31, 2013 Report Share Posted July 31, 2013 Many of the locals call the Raquet Club event a tromba. Which can mean whirlwind but locally seems to mean water spout. I've asked many of the RC residents and thought about it a lot and I'm sure the event wasn't a waterspout. More like a supercell of heavy rain that lasted for many hours with possible dams building up in the arroyos which later broke. I'm annoyed I missed that this morning as I was out on my morning walk above San Juan Cosala and saw nothing. I've seen two waterspouts on remote lakes and they were very noisy-like a train coming. Was there any noise with these ones? In west Ajijic above the gas station there is a hill called Cerro Colorado that is bare of vegetation. I've been told that was caused by a water spout but have also read it was caused by gold mining. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
exHawaiian Posted July 31, 2013 Report Share Posted July 31, 2013 About 35 years ago, a water spout came ashore in Kailua Kona, and wiped out a hotel and a supermarket. They can be powerful. We used to see them from time to time over the ocean in .Kona Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
traderspoc Posted August 1, 2013 Report Share Posted August 1, 2013 wow great video well done also take a look at the corn field on the carretera north of coca cola its has at least 25% of the corn lying flat. must have been a micro burst from the storm. sad 25% of farmers crop flat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alex45920 Posted August 1, 2013 Report Share Posted August 1, 2013 It is a tornado on the water. Instead of sucking up earth and debris, it sucks up water. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joco Posted August 1, 2013 Report Share Posted August 1, 2013 Correct. It was a freak short lived heavy downpour of immense magnitude hitting the mountain above the Racquet Club. I was in SJC then and that rain was the hardest I've ever heard, so hard the commodes and bath tub started backing up water from the street drains. How the story got started that it was a water spout, I don't know, but at my house it rained incredibly hard for at least and an hour and probably longer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CWB Posted August 1, 2013 Report Share Posted August 1, 2013 It is a tornado on the water. Instead of sucking up earth and debris, it sucks up water. Actually it does not suck up water. The water is already in the water spout and is condensation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Floradude Posted August 1, 2013 Report Share Posted August 1, 2013 Waterspout From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search Not to be confused with water spout, a pipe that carries water down from a roof, or with watersprouts, regrowth on trees. A waterspout near Florida. Note the two flares with smoke trails for indicating wind direction and general speed near the bottom of the photograph. Part of the nature series Weather Calendar seasons Spring Summer Autumn Winter Tropical seasons Dry season Wet season Storms Thunderstorm (Thundersnow) Supercell Downburst Lightning Tornado Waterspout Tropical cyclone (Hurricane) Extratropical cyclone Winter storm Blizzard Ice storm Dust storm Firestorm Cloud Precipitation Drizzle (Freezing drizzle) Rain (Freezing rain) Snow (Rain and snow mixed • Snow grains • Snow roller) Graupel Ice pellets Hail Topics Meteorology Climate Weather forecasting Heat wave Air pollution Cold wave Weather portal v t e A waterspout is an intense columnar vortex (usually appearing as a funnel-shaped cloud) that occurs over a body of water, connected to a cumuliform cloud. In the common form, it is a non-supercell tornado over water.[1] While it is often weaker than most of its land counterparts, stronger versions spawned by mesocyclones do occur.[2][3] Waterspouts do not suck up water; the water seen in the main funnel cloud is actually water droplets formed by condensation.[4] While many waterspouts form in the tropics, other areas also report waterspouts, including Europe, New Zealand, the Great Lakes and Antarctica.[5][6] Although rare, waterspouts have been observed in connection with lake-effect snow precipitation bands. Waterspouts have a five-part life cycle: formation of a dark spot on the water surface, spiral pattern on the water surface, formation of a spray ring, development of the visible condensation funnel, and ultimately decay. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johanson Posted August 1, 2013 Report Share Posted August 1, 2013 I was talking to friends at breakfast this morning about what happened in the Racquet Club. We all thought that the water spout when it was over the lake picked the water up and then dropped it on the Racquet Club. I guess we were all wrong. Oh well Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HarryB Posted August 1, 2013 Report Share Posted August 1, 2013 Chapala was warned this spring to expect many water spouts this season. That is why they made a special effort to clean the arroyos. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Travis Posted August 1, 2013 Report Share Posted August 1, 2013 Well, at least we're all learning something. Another friend today said that locals also refer to them as a "serpiente de agua"...water snake. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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