Wednesday, December 23, 2009

Waterspout in Kentucky?


This puzzling datum is from the New York Times, August 24, 1901.

A waterspout on a creek? Seriously? Is that possible? A waterspout is, by definition, a funnel cloud that connects from a cumuliform cloud to a large body of water, usually the ocean or the Great Lakes.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Maybe it happened where Barnett Creek connected with the Rough River?

Jax Rhapsody said...

Nowonder owensboro is spelt like that. Technically, it's pretty much like a tornado. I had just heard of them last year. Pretty interesting.