Waterspout — Breton Sound, Gulf of Mexico

2025-05-01 · near Bay Gardene Near Point-a-la-hache, Breton Sound, Gulf of Mexico

Event narrative

Pictures of a well-developed waterspout near Myrtle Grove from both EM and broadcast media.

Wider weather episode

Clusters of thunderstorms developed overnight along a stalled frontal boundary draped across Texas from the Permian Basin to southeastern Oklahoma on April 29th. Those individual clusters congealed into a Mesoscale Convective System on April 30th from the I-20 corridor in Texas to central Oklahoma. This MCS steadily tracked southeast towards Louisiana, reaching southeast Louisiana in the morning hours of May first. A storm along the leading edge of the convection produced a severe wind gust in local marine waters.

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Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 1259394. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.