On the morning of August 24th, in the neighborhood of the Qinghai Lake Bird Island Scenic Spot a marvelous spectacle of "Five tornadoes taking water" appeared and lasted for about an hour. In recent years, on the bank of Lake Qinghai there have been occurring the scene of "tornadoes taking water" many times.

At about 9:50 in the morning of October the 20th, 2014, there appeared successively 9 "tornadoes taking water" on the northern slope of the Haixin Mountain near Qinghai Lake. The white water poles formed circinate shape stood vertically connecting the sky and the lake surface, lasting for 40 minutes. On September 1st, 2010, there appeared twice the marvelous spectacle of "tornadoes taking water" on Lake Qinghai:

Zhang Jinong, a specialist from the Weather Bureau of Qinghai Province said that,as an weather specialist, the tornado is extremely rare yet the appearance of 9 tornadoes within 40 minutes was even more rarer.

The experts indicated that the "tornadoes taking water" is a relatively common natural phenomenon which also make the beautiful Lake Qinghai look even more unique.

The tornado is a round-shaped air pole that spins strongly. Its upper part connects to a thunder cloud while its lower part partly hangs in the air and partly expands directly to the ground or to a water surface. The pole spins while moving in a direction. If it appears on the ocean it looks like "tornadoes taking water" which is hence called the "water tornado roll".