GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — A single spinning storm cell dropped a picturesque tornado in Antrim County in northern Michigan on Monday evening.

The tornado then traveled over Torch Lake, sucking up water and becoming a tornadic waterspout. The tornado crossed Torch Lake before continuing east and eventually dissipating.

The National Weather Service in Gaylord, Michigan, issued a tornado warning at 5:57 p.m. for central Antrim County shortly after rotation was spotted on radar. The storm was fairly isolated, with the tornado dropping from a relatively high cloud base. These conditions made the twister very easy to spot across the northern Michigan landscape.

Was it a tornado or was it a waterspout?

Tornadoes can touch down on land or water. In fact, tornadoes can touch down just about

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