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waterspout

weather phenomenon characterized by an intense columnar vortex that occurs over a body of water
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Summary

waterspout ranks in the top 1% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (6,213 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • Subclass of: tornado[2]
  • Commons category: Waterspouts[3]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Waterspouts[4]
  • Described by source: Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[5], The New Student's Reference Work[6], Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 9[7]
  • Different from: whirlpool[8]
  • Exact match: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_01001487[9]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Information integrity on extreme weather events[10]
  • Maintained by WikiProject: WikiProject Fluid dynamics[11]

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Influence

Things named for waterspout include Smerch[12], a monitor[13].

Why It Matters

waterspout has Wikipedia articles in 23 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[14] waterspout is known by 53 alternative names across languages and contexts.[15]

Entities named for waterspout include Smerch[12], a monitor[13].

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Direct Wikidata claims

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  1. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [13] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [14] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [15] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 27d ago · Susmuffin · 2026-09-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → waterspouts
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: waterspouts, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289970983|waterspouts (#289970983)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's tag]] "
  2. 19w ago · EPorto (WMB) · 2026-06-03 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    On focus list of wikimedia project → Information integrity on extreme weather events
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/34829|batch #34829]]"
  3. 19w ago · EPorto (WMB) · 2026-06-02 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of → —
    Subclass of → tornado
    Maintained by wikiproject → WikiProject Fluid dynamics
    Described by source → Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, The New Student's Reference Work, Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 9
    + 3 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbeditentity-update-languages-short:0||pt-br, pt */ Adding labels and descriptions to Extreme Weather events and subclasses ([[:toollabs:editgroups/b/OR/796090199e7|details]])"
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