Waterspout · Gulf of Mexico

A narrow, vertical waterspout with an observed spray ring was reported approximately four miles north northwest of the Niles Channel Bridge. The waterspout was observed for a few minutes before it became tilted and more rope-like before dissipating.

Showers and thunderstorms originating in weak, nebulous lower to middle tropospheric steering flow on the afternoon of September 12, 2025, produced isolated gale force wind gusts and a waterspout near the Lower Florida Keys. The showers and thunderstorms eventually evolved into a mesoscale convective system over the southeast Gulf of America featuring a large southward-moving outflow boundary bringing scattered gale-force wind gusts through much of the Florida Keys coastal waters the evening of September 12 to the early morning hours of September 13, 2025.