Water tornado mimics a protoplanetary disk To analyze the flow behavior at the water's surface, the research team introduced small polypropylene beads into the vortex.

Water Tornadoes Are Surprisingly Good At Modeling Planetary Formation Using a very simple setup, researchers were able to replicate Kepler's laws of planetary motion.

On Sept. 8, 2004, 21 years ago: the remnants of hurricane Frances produced 11 tornadoes in North Carolina, according to the NOAA.

Meteorologist Derek Witt explains the science behind those "water tornadoes" in this Weather Word of the Week.

Fast-moving water is about 800 times denser than air. Just a few feet of floodwater can exert more pressure than an EF5 tornado. "They're both catastrophic even though the damage looks similar ...

Flowing Water Can Do As Much Damage As An EF5 Tornado Water flowing at just over 6 mph has the equivalent force per unit area as air blowing at EF5 tornado wind speeds.

The National Weather Service (and the 3News Weather Team) says waterspouts are likely to pop up around Lake Erie through ...

Disaster can strike at any time, which is why the Ohio Emergency Management Agency wants you to be prepared all year ...

Simple laboratory model for cosmic flows developed: A water tornado enables a realistic simulation of the dynamics of gas and dust in planet-forming discs. Kepler’s laws confirmed in a water ...