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  2. Scud (cloud) - Wikipedia

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    These clouds are often ragged or wispy in appearance. When caught in the outflow beneath a thunderstorm, scud clouds will often move faster than the storm clouds themselves. If the parent cloud that scud clouds pair with were to suddenly dissipate, the pannus cloud accessory would not be able to be told apart from a fractus cloud formation.

  3. Storm clouds make great pictures, but what do they mean - AOL

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    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 ...

  4. Funnel cloud - Wikipedia

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    On July 29, 2013, a cold-core funnel cloud touched down as an EF0 tornado in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, causing extensive damage in the form of downed trees on a golf course. No advance weather watches or warnings were issued by Environment Canada, and the tornado was spawned from one of the few non-severe storm clouds moving through the area ...

  5. Derecho - Wikipedia

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    A shelf cloud along the leading edge of a derecho in Minnesota A damage caused by a derecho in Barga, Italy. A derecho (/ ˈ d ɛ r ə tʃ oʊ /, from Spanish: derecho [deˈɾetʃo], 'straight') [1] is a widespread, long-lived, straight-line wind storm that is associated with a fast-moving group of severe thunderstorms known as a mesoscale ...

  6. Wall cloud - Wikipedia

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    Attached to many wall clouds, especially in moist environments, is a cauda [1] (tail cloud), a tail-like band of cloud extending from the wall cloud toward the precipitation core. [6] It can be thought of as an extension of the wall cloud in that the tail cloud is connected to the wall cloud and condensation forms for a similar reason.

  7. Cumulonimbus incus - Wikipedia

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    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).

  8. Heat lightning - Wikipedia

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    Distant lightning near Louisville, Kentucky. Heat lightning (not to be confused with dry thunderstorms, which are also often called dry lightning) is a misnomer [1] used for the faint flashes of lightning on the horizon or other clouds from distant thunderstorms that do not appear to have accompanying sounds of thunder.

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