Scattered showers and storms Thursday produced a water spout on Sabine Lake. Linda Craft took this photo while she was in Bridge City.
Waterspouts and tornadoes look similar and both types of rotating columns of air, but they differ primarily in their formation and location.
Waterspouts can form without a thunderstorm and often develop from surface convergence over warm water. Tornadoes, on the other hand, typically require a rotating thunderstorm to form.
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