AP News has two different pictures of a waterspout that touched down off the coast of Palos Verdes, California on January 3rd, 2005. A waterspout is a tornado over water so if it had happened over land it could have been a scene right out of the movie "The Day After Tomorrow". Suffice to say tornados are rare in Southern California. It doesn't really say how long the waterspout touched down for either.

Click on over to view the Waterspout #1 and Waterspout #2 pictures.