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Several “scary-looking” so-called “vapor tornadoes” have been spotted on Texas lakes as the state faces a deadly threat. winter storm.
A video shared on Facebook National Weather Service Fort Worth Showing a towering tornado-like vortex of steam spiraling into the air a dozen miles north of Lewisville Lake Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport.
The agency said it has received several reports of weather phenomena on lakes in North and Central Texas and assured locals that they do not pose a threat to public safety.
“When extremely cold Arctic air flows over still-warm lake water and a favorable moist and unstable lower atmosphere, it creates vapor that can spin and rise into clouds,” the weather service said. wrote in a Facebook post.
“While they look very impressive and scary, luckily they are harmless!”
Also known as “steam vents” or “steam devils,” steam nados can extend more than 1,500 feet high. They are sometimes confused with waterspouts, which also occur on bodies of water, but they are different weather phenomena. They usually only last a few minutes.
Tornadoes come as North Texas city faces inches of snow due to extreme Arctic blast sweep across Much of the eastern half of the country brought sleet, freezing rain and snow. The weather system severely disrupted air and road travel and left hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses without power, particularly in southeastern states.
winter storm fern Two people have died in Texas: one in Austin, where an unidentified man was found dead in a gas station parking lot, and a horrific sledding accident in Frisco on Sunday that killed a 16-year-old girl after her sled hit a curb and collided with a tree. According to Fox 4 News.
More than a dozen people have died across the country, five of them Arrested outside New York Cityand eight Maine plane crash.
The storm is expected to cause more than $100 billion in damage to the country.