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A family was taking the vacation of a lifetime when they looked out the window of their cruise ship and were left terrified.
Megan Watts, who posts to TikTok under the username megansparkswatts, said she had had a “new fear unlocked” by what she saw outside the cruise ship she was traveling on with her family.
The ship was just out at Cape Canaveral in Florida and people were gathered for food in the enormous ship’s restaurant, which has large glass windows allowing passengers to look out at the water.
On this occasion, though, the camera captured a woman’s face utterly dropping as she saw what was in the distance.
‘Excuse me, what?’
What appeared to be two tornadoes had formed between heavy clouds and the water, one of the twin twisters seemingly much thicker and more powerful than the other.
“Excuse me, what?,” Watts wrote in the caption, with the video set to intense music.
Luckily, within a day the creator was back to posting regular vacation content from the cruise ship, meaning they had not hit any danger.
That’s because, while the tornado-like phenomena look scary, they are in fact waterspouts and are only dangerous in certain conditions.
The National Weather Service notes that waterspouts are common in Florida and are generally broken into two categories: fair-weather waterspouts and tornadic waterspouts.
Tornadic waterspouts are tornadoes that form over water, or move from the land to the water, usually during severe thunderstorms and accompanied by high winds, seas, hail and dangerous lightning.
However, fair-weather waterspouts occur during relatively calm weather, usually along developing cumulus clouds, and are not usually associated with thunderstorms, and because of the light winds, usually do not move very much.
If a waterspout moves onto land, the National Weather Service may issue a tornado warning. However, fair-weather waterspouts usually disappear quickly once making landfall, and rarely penetrate far inland.
‘Bring it on’
Some commenters on Watts’ video—which has more than 283,000 likes and 4.2 million views—rallied to assure her that she wasn’t in danger, as one wrote: “That’s a water spout, [don’t worry]. They’re pretty common—not a tornado!”
Another person thought there would be, “fighting for a front row seat to watch the sea tornadoes, ” while an individual revealed, “We pull out lawn chairs and watch for these tornadoes. Bring it on, water tornadoes!”
But one commenter joked: “Remember that a water spout can easily turn into a sharknado!”
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