{"id":29379,"date":"2025-07-22T19:15:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T19:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/29379\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T19:15:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T19:15:10","slug":"sudden-waterspout-shocks-beachgoers-near-barnegat-inlet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/29379\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudden waterspout shocks beachgoers near Barnegat Inlet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A waterspout was spotted Tuesday morning off Island Beach State Park near Barnegat Inlet, surprising beachgoers who witnessed the event. <\/p>\n<p>New images just into the newsroom show beachgoers stopping to watch the rare sight.<\/p>\n<p>The National Weather Service confirms the waterspout was observed on local beach cameras and lasted two to three minutes.<\/p>\n<p>\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/spout.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Storm Watch Team Meteorologist Mike Rizzo explains how waterspouts form and whether they pose any danger.<\/p>\n<p>Rizzo says as a result of the &#8220;impromptu&#8221; waterspout the NWS issued a Special Marine Warning for this event, indicating that this thunderstorm can produce sudden waterspouts.<\/p>\n<p>Waterspouts can easily overturn boats and create locally hazardous seas. The NWS safety messaging is to seek safe harbor immediately.<\/p>\n<p>Although this spout is not associated with a severe thunderstorm, these &#8220;fair weather&#8221; spouts can occur when weather fronts like a sea breeze with southeasterly winds meet an area with northerly\/northwesterly winds. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s still not advisable to approach or go near these spouts. Waterspouts can easily overturn boats and create locally hazardous seas. <\/p>\n<p>Photo by Dee Atchley<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A waterspout was spotted Tuesday morning off Island Beach State Park near Barnegat Inlet, surprising beachgoers who witnessed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29380,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[24860,24858,24859,192,79,24861],"class_list":["post-29379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-barnegat","tag-barnegat-bay","tag-barnegat-inlet","tag-environment","tag-science","tag-water-spouts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29379\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}