A HUGE WATERSPOUT

Seventh-Day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Thursday, February 26, 1880

FromThe Advent Review and Sabbath Herald, Vol. 55, No. 9

A HUGE WATERSPOUT.

SOME gentlemen of Greenport, L. I., thus describe an extraordinary phenomenon which they witnessed while on the Sound shore, opposite that village, on a recent afternoon. Their attention was first attracted by what seemed to be an unusual disturbance on the surface of the water, directly under a heavy cloud coming from windward. The tops of the waves assumed the spirally-ascending motion peculiar to waterspouts, which increased until the elevation was upward of 50 feet before the water took the cloud form. This was soon followed by a second, about a mile off shore, similar to the first, but considerably larger, its height, judging from the angle of elevation, being nearly 1,000 feet. The top of this also resolved into a fog or mist directly under the cloud. Then, at a distance of about four miles, a third one was plainly discernible, which seemed to meet the sky at the rear of the cloud, and which must have covered an area of several acres. All three of these spouts were moving with the wind, and the first or smallest one subsided to the water level only a few rods from the beach. Immediately there was a sharp dash of rain, followed by a hail squall, as the disturbing cloud passed over, and when this subsided, so that a view of the Sound could again be obtained, the waterspouts had disappeared. So far as known, these were the only waterspouts ever seen in the Sound.—New York Sun.