F0 Tornado (Danish: skypumpe) in Gilleleje, Denmark on August 27, 2003 (around 10:20 AM):

Just as we were packing to leave the summer house we had rented, I noticed a white area out on the ocean in front of the house. At closer inspection, a strong vortex had formed, foaming up the water in a 30-50 wide area. We went outside and took this picture:

A small tornado was clearly forming. The funnel cloud touched down as we were watching:

Only about 300 meters away, a funnel cloud stretched all the way from the water to an angry cloud above (unfortunately, the contrast is not so great - the funnel really goes all the way from bottom to top of this picture

We were standing right beneath the funnel cloud, looking straight up into the swirling vortex: It was an amazing sight (the picture does not do it justice, you have to imagine a swirling motion of the entire picture):

The tornado moved towards shore, and began to disintegrate somewhat, still maintaining very high winds. It got very windy, we were only about 200 meters (maybe less) from the center of the vortex as it moved on shore, and the funnel cloud began to retract:

On the way away from the house, we saw a tree with a large branch broken off, and other signs of wind damage. Based on that, I think this was an F0 tornado on the Fujita scale. Or maybe it should be labeled a water spout (which is officially a tornado but does not count as a tornado in some statistics) since it dissipated rather quickly over land. The Danish word, in any case, is 'skypumpe' (cloud pump). There are actually relatively frequent observations of funnel clouds and small tornadoes in Denmark. Click here for a list.