Funnel Cloud East of Pompano Beach

This morning I took the above photo from the parking lot at Costco in Pompano Beach, Florida. From where I was it appeared to be a funnel cloud but later the NWS stated that it was a waterspout. Special thanks to Clare, Kalie and Jamie who were with me at saw this event.

Of course when I spotted this I called the NWS and they shortly thereafter issued a Special Marine Warning and a strongly worded Special Weather Statement which included:

..WATERSPOUT DUE EAST OF POMPANO AIRPORT AT 956 AM EDT...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A WATERSPOUT DUE EAST OF THE POMPANO BEACH AIRPORT. NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THIS SHOWER WAS MOVING NORTHWEST TOWARDS THE COAST IN BETWEEN POMPANO BEACH AND DEERFIELD BEACH. THIS STORM WILL AFFECT... LIGHTHOUSE POINT... DEERFIELD BEACH... AND SURROUNDING COMMUNITIES. RESIDENTS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT IN CASE THE WATERSPOUT MOVES ONSHORE IN WHICH CASE A TORNADO WARNING MAY NEED TO BE ISSUED.

The waterspout did not come ashore and the event that began at about 9:50am ended just before 10am.

Here is the Local Storm Report detailing the event:

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT 
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL 
303 PM EDT SAT AUG 23 2008 
  
.TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON 
  
.DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE. 

           ..REMARKS.. 

0953 AM     FUNNEL CLOUD     2 E POMPANO BEACH       26.23N 80.09W  
08/23/2008                   AMZ651             FL   TRAINED SPOTTER  

           SPOTTER BR264 REPORTED A FUNNEL CLOUD OFFSHORE POMPANO  
           BEACH VIEWED FROM I-95 AT SAMPLE ROAD. 

0955 AM     WATER SPOUT      2 E POMPANO BEACH       26.23N 80.09W  
08/23/2008                   AMZ651             FL   TRAINED SPOTTER  

           TRAINED SPOTTER REPORTED WATERSPOUT EAST OF POMPANO BEACH 
           VIEWED FROM COPANS ROAD.