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  2. 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 ...

  3. Cumulonimbus calvus - Wikipedia

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    Landspout; Cumulonimbus calvus clouds can, on rare occasions, produce a unique type of tornado known as a landspout. Landspouts are formed when strong ground level rotation is caught in the updraft of the storm, pulling it upwards and connecting it to the clouds above resulting in the rotation becoming a true tornado.

  4. Mesocyclone - Wikipedia

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    As the updraft rotates and ingests cooler, moister air from the forward flank downdraft (FFD), it may form a wall cloud, a spinning layer of clouds lowered from ambient storm cloud base under the mid-level mesocyclone. The wall cloud tends to form closer to the center of the mesocyclone. As it descends, a funnel cloud may form

  5. Supercell - Wikipedia

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    The first storm to be identified as the supercell type was the Wokingham storm over England, which was studied by Keith Browning and Frank Ludlam in 1962. [4] Browning did the initial work that was followed up by Lemon and Doswell to develop the modern conceptual model of the supercell. [ 5 ]

  6. List of cloud types - Wikipedia

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    High clouds having the traditional "mare's tail" appearance. These clouds are long, fibrous, and curved, with no tufts or curls at the ends. Cirrus uncinus (V-2) Filaments with up-turned hooks or curls. Cirrus spissatus (V-3) Dense and opaque or mostly opaque patches. Cirrus castellanus (V-4) A series of dense lumps, or "towers", connected by a ...

  7. Cumulonimbus cloud - Wikipedia

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    The atmosphere is a dynamic system, and the local conditions of turbulence, uplift, and other parameters give rise to many types of clouds. Various types of cloud occur frequently enough to have been categorized. Furthermore, some atmospheric processes can make the clouds organize in distinct patterns such as wave clouds or actinoform clouds ...

  8. 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).

  9. Hurricane dynamics and cloud microphysics - Wikipedia

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    Cloud microphysics are the physical processes that describe the growth, decay, and fallout of precipitation particles. In terms of models, cloud microphysics occur on a scale smaller than the grid-scale of the model and have to be parameterized. [2] Hurricane track forecasts have been getting better in recent years.