You didn't offend me, HR. I did a quick check though, to make sure I wasn't coming from left field in my assumptions about white caps.
"Full on whitecaps" does not appear to be a classification in the Beaufort scale. Numerous whitecaps is a classification though, and 14 knots is easily enough to produce them.
Scattered whitecaps appear to start fairly shy of 17 knots (like 10 or so).
It's just a chart with numbers on it, though.
Prolly best to watch the birds, not the water surface (via cam or live) for sure.
http://www.spc.noaa.gov/faq/tornado/beaufort.html
And yes, I can be sarcastic.
