Pompano Beach Florida Water Spout Pictures
May 6, 2009 by Jeff Gammons
Filed under Featured, South Florida, Top Stories
It was one of those lucky days where you just happen to come across a water spout when you not even in chase mode. Early this morning Kersten and I headed south from Lake Okeechobee to Broward County. I had a lab appointment for UM in Pompano Beach, Florida at 8am, and I was all wrapped up by 8:30am.
We decided to head south and east to make a surprise visit at my aunt’s house since she lives about 10 minutes away. On our way we’re driving south on Powerline Rd and under this very small convergence boundary that extended northwest to southeast towards Pompano Beach. I noted to Kersten that if this built a little more easterly out over the ocean we just might see a distant water spout. 10 minutes later deep in morning South Florida traffic, I glance over to my left only to see a translucent funnel cloud extended halfway towards the water. I luckily brought my camera and something told me that morning just to bring it along. I quickly grabbed it and began to shoot as I’m telling Kersten to drive east towards the beach.
There was no going anywhere fast as traffic was slow and still nearing the end of rush hour. As Chris Collura would say, a fellow Chaser friend, “ Great! Look at all those brake lights”. So I continued to take pictures between buildings, power poles, tree’s and anything else that just seemed to want to get in my way. We finally we reach the Pier at Pompano Beach only to see that convergence boundary had weakened significantly and the spout dissipated. I did asked the local lifeguard if the water spout was at the surface and he did say there was a circulation at the ocean surface with mist. Cool!
It was a nice treat for us during this long, and I mean long drought here in South Florida. It was nice to see a little convection and something rotating finally, because there has been little action in Florida since early last Fall. We made our stops, had lunch and then headed home. A interesting morning indeed, and I’m sure glad I had the urge to grab my cam before leaving the house. LOL!
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Awesome pictures!
Awesome pictures.
Thanks Mike! It was a lucky morning.
Nice catch Jeff. Right at my old stomping grounds.
LMAO at “Great! Look at all those brake lights”. Yup…that would be Chris. It likely was Chris a little earlier in rush hour S. Florida traffic elsewhere.
Nice grab too BTW. Nothing like getting a nice surprise on an otherwise uneventful trip.
What a special treat! I saw the one that made brief landfall as it dissipated in Miami last year! Too cool! Great shots, even if everything was getting in your way!