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Originally Posted by gillygirl
It’s not that a waterspout turned into a tornado. It was a tornado over water, and a tornado over land.
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ApS is correct; waterspout is the proper term for a tornado that forms over water and, a water spout that then moves over land becomes classified as a tornado. Waterspouts (with the exception of fair weather waterspouts which form from the waters surface upward) are associated with the same weather patterns that cause tornados; hence the tornado warnings.