From Wikipedia.org:
“Waterspouts normally develop as their parent clouds are in the process of development, and it is theorized that they spin up as they move up the surface boundary from the horizontal shear near the surface, and then stretch upwards to the cloud once the low level shear vortex aligns with a developing cumulus or thunderstorm.”
So if this "waterspout" formed cloud down, is it actually a waterspout? The National Weather Service in Mt. Holly, NJ mentioned that there was no circulation on Doppler Radar, but there should have been if it was a tornado or waterspout
Some meteorologists/viewers think this was a waterspout, others don't, below you will see pictures can be deceiving.
One of the pictures from Traci Z. sent into www.wgmd.com appears to look more like a roll cloud.
Finally, it could still be a waterspout. Without video it is hard to tell!
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