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When causing thunderstorms, these clouds may be called thunderheads. Cumulonimbus can form alone, in clusters, or along squall lines. These clouds are capable of producing lightning and other dangerous severe weather, such as tornadoes, hazardous winds, and large hailstones.
A cumulonimbus incus is a mature thunderstorm cloud generating many dangerous elements. Lightning: this storm cloud is capable of producing bursts of cloud-to-ground lightning. Hail: hailstones may fall from this cloud if it is a highly unstable environment (which favours a more vigorous storm updraft).
Clouds of the genus nimbostratus tend to bring constant precipitation and low visibility. This cloud type normally forms above 2 kilometres (6,600 ft) [10] from altostratus cloud but tends to thicken into the lower levels during the occurrence of precipitation. The top of a nimbostratus deck is usually in the middle level of the troposphere.
Indicates that the air below the cloud is dry; can also signify the downdraft region of a storm. Wall clouds. A supercell forms and a wall cloud pushes north of Beardstown, Ill. Friday, March 31 ...
A thunderstorm, also known as an electrical storm or a lightning storm, is a storm characterized by the presence of lightning [1] and its acoustic effect on the Earth's atmosphere, known as thunder. [2] Relatively weak thunderstorms are sometimes called thundershowers. [3] Thunderstorms occur in a type of cloud known as a cumulonimbus. [4]
A shelf cloud is a low, horizontal, wedge-shaped arcus cloud attached to the base of the parent cloud, which is usually a thunderstorm cumulonimbus, but could form on any type of convective clouds. Rising air motion can often be seen in the leading (outer) part of the shelf cloud, while the underside can often appear as turbulent and wind-torn.
The eye wall is the ring of storm clouds surrounding the eye of a tropical cyclone. [29]) A large shield of cirrus and cirrostratus typically accompanies the high altitude outflowing winds of tropical cyclones, [28] and these can make the underlying bands of rain—and sometimes even the eye—difficult to detect in satellite photographs. [30]
A storm that pummeled dozens of Midwest states with snow during the weekend also brought another weather phenomena, at least to Missouri: Thunder and lightning. The phenomenon, known as ...