"My wife and I were driving westbound on US40 this afternoon (Saturday, 30 June), at about 1:45 PM.  As we approached MD 543 in Belcamp (in Harford County) I noticed a thin, dark, mostly vertical column of SOMETHING rising from the vicinity of the Bush River toward the sky.  I could not tell what it was, but I definitely saw this thing, and my wife saw it too.  It did not last very long, and it eventually faded completely away.  It almost looked like a shadow, but it moved and bent a little before it faded.  It did not look like any kind of smoke that I have ever seen.  We thought it sort of looked like a big, thin, dust devil.

"The sky was fairly clear, with no storm in the area, and no weird winds were obvious from where we were driving. Could this have been a small waterspout?  Were the conditions today right for a waterspout to form?  I know from a TV weather show that waterspouts form in a different way than regular tornadoes, and they are much weaker.

"Unfortunately, I did not have a camera on me at the time. Sincerely, Monroe Harden, Havre de Grace, MD"