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Wild TORNADO funnel storm cloud ,
Waterspout documented over 
SALISBURY BEACH Massachusetts
 June 3, 2004 ~

Digital Photo taken from the clear 5th floor, 
 Newburyport Mill Building condo~
Visually straight across  the Merrimack River harbor.
June 3, 2004 2:55 pm ~ 2:56 pm

 
Wild weather! Funnel-shaped cloud seen over Salisbury Beach. Some witnesses say they saw a waterspout
 (a tornado passing over water and picking up a column of water and mist touch down in the ocean.)

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The next day I received this letter-

Mary, Todd G. kindly forwarded your amazing photo to me at the State Climate office.  This is so excellent that it should be published in the Globe and/or other papers  and perhaps in meteorological magazines, such as Weatherwise or in an AMS journal.   I have always been especially interested in tornadoes and lament the policy of denial that had been so ingrained in the Weather Bureau and now Nat. Weather Service.   However, since radar, this policy has somewhat declined.    I will foreword your photo to the Nat. Wea. Serv office at Taunton that they may incorporate the event in the publication "Storm Data."     I believe that on TV I heard this called a possible waterspout.  Not so, as those occur only over warm water with the advent of cold air overrunning. The sea is now cold and could not support a waterspout.  They usually do not have a great cloud development, but may have a modest cumulus cloud.  There are the same as a dust devil over heated land, which may or may not have any cloud overhead.  Yours was definitely associated with the thunder cloud and was a tornadic funnel.  If you have any further information, such as any wind damage, I would appreciate getting it.  Thanks again for your fortune in getting such a great shot. Robert Lautzenheiser

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These following storm images are the large original  pictures. 
Showing the tornado's  storm formation. 
(and will no doubt take a bit of a moment to load -) 
But worth every second for the detail of the seething, twisting forming clouds.

Incredible sequence of  weather of pictures follows:
These 5 pictures are all taken within 1 minute. 
With a Digital Camera.