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• On March 28th, off duty Meteorologist-in-Charge, Steve Mendenhall, was near the intersection of Houston and 11th Avenues in Hanford when he observed this funnel cloud to the northwest. The funnel cloud was also seen by several other people. ...

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• Is that a Funnel Cloud? Slide 55 of 89 .

• Funnel cloud near Wagga -22nd April 2001.
• To put it mildly I'm absolutely stoked about seeing my first (hopefully) funnel cloud. ... I'm pretty sure it was rotating clockwise (from above) and had two very distinct 'shells' comprising the cone (outer) and condensation funnel (inner) the later of which didn't really show up too well on the photo. ... There was no obvious rotation in the storm except for the part which protruded from the base of the cloud, which resembled a wall cloud and dissipated along with the funnel while I watched it. ...
• Michael Thompson - It is interesting to note that the times match pretty well with Robert Goler's report, was it the same funnel ?? Robert has an excellent summary of conditions that day, including maps.

• What is a funnel cloud? .
• Funnel clouds can be considered weak tornadoes that do not have a visible portion reaching the ground. Some desctrutive tornadoes may only look like a funnel cloud if the air is unusually dry, preventing the formation of cloud material all the way to the ground. But more commonly, the tornadic circulation is too weak to support a well developed condensation funnel. Nevertheless, in virtually all true funnel cloud situations, there will be a circulation of air reaching from the visible funnel all the way to the ground. Low clouds associated with thunderstorms are often mistaken for funnel clouds, and the National Weather Service makes a special effort to train storm spotters to be able to tell the difference. ...

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• A funnel cloud is a vortex of condensated water vapor and air spinning at high velocity. Funnel clouds can form under cumulus clouds if there is enough humidity and vorticity in the air. Landspouts and waterspouts are funnel clouds which reach to ground level, but are usually weak, as opposed to tornadoes. A tornado by definition is a funnel cloud created by mesoscale storm rotation rather than the small vorticity in the air which is responsible for funnel clouds.

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• This funnel cloud was of a land spout form, but I am uncertain whether it had touched the ground or not. This funnel cloud made the talk of the Maitland area for a few days and one of the words was that it touched the ground just near Rutherford, but I have nothing to confirm that.

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• A funnel cloud and associated rotation is visible in this thunderstorm system that passed over the Fargo, North Dakota, region on June 6, 1988. ...

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• I saw my first wall cloud and funnel cloud on March 20 this year during the Ralegh tornadic supercell - a thrilling yet terrifying event. I made the mistake of chasing too close to dark though, and almost paid for it as the funnel passed nearly directly over me and other cars on the 440 beltline. ... I guess you probably saw the local news video, shot by a Holly Springs resident, of the descending multiple-vortex funnel. ...

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• This funnel cloud preceded the small twister that we saw. ... It kept respawning a funnel and finally became this tornado. ...
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•    OBSERVING AND REPORTING TORNADOES, WATERSPOUTS, AND FUNNEL CLOUDS.
•    TORNADO, WATERSPOUT, OR FUNNEL CLOUD.
• In the body of the SPECI observation, insert +FC (for tornado or waterspout) or FC (for funnel cloud) at the beginning of the present weather group (see paragraph 15-14, Present Weather Group). Insofar as known, the following shall be reported in the remarks section for any SPECI when a tornado, waterspout or funnel cloud appears or begins (see paragraph 15-21, Funnel Cloud, for remarks format):.
• The following shall be reported in the remarks section for any SPECI when a tornado, waterspout or funnel cloud ends or disappears from sight (see paragraph 15-21, Funnel Cloud, for remarks format):.
• Example of remarks for a funnel cloud disappearing from site: FUNNEL CLOUD E35.

• Major Supercells Outbreak including funnel cloud and giant hail: Sunday 30th March 2003 .

• Funnel clouds trigger tornado warning.
• Reports of funnel clouds triggered a Tippecanoe County tornado warning around 7 p. ...
• Numerous funnel cloud sightings were reported around Shadeland and Klondike.
• "We had very severe storms and funnel clouds, but no confirmations that it touched the ground," he said.
• "According to the National Weather Service, they had some cold air funnel clouds in Illinois and we think that's probably what we had here," said Tippecanoe County sheriff's Lt. ...
• A funnel cloud is not classified as a tornado unless it touches the ground and picks up debris, Wettschurack said. ...
• However, such funnel clouds can still cause damage, he said.
• Cold air funnel clouds, which are usually short-lived, develop from relatively small showers or thunderstorms when the air aloft is very cold.

• Lots of convection popping up over northeast wisconsin with several funnel clouds reported throughout the area. ... We don't get two feet out the door and we see a developing wall cloud to the south. ...
• Here is a wall cloud south of the GRB airport.
• Here is the right edge of the wall cloud.
• The wall cloud becomes better developed.
• A funnel forming in the center of the wall cloud.
• A close-up of the funnel cloud.
• Watching the wall cloud for more action.
• Here is the funnel forming to the left.
• A closer look at the funnel.
• The funnel is just above the trees.
• A pic of the wall cloud as it dies.
• Notice several lowerings below the cloud.

• This particular observation was a heart-stopper, though ---- my view to the east-northeast featured a funnel cloud! I kind of stared at it for a few seconds----not yet ready to believe that it was a funnel cloud. ... It extended perhaps one-third of the way from cloud base to the ground, and it came out of a very dark cloud base. The funnel cloud did resemble a funnel quite closely, close to the shape of a "sugar" ice-cream cone. ... This was probably a "cold-air" funnel associated with a relatively low-topped cumulus congestus---perhaps along a boundary of converging northwesterly and southeasterly winds. Anyhow, I continued to stare in disbelief at the funnel cloud --- the first one I have ever seen in California. I fretted for several seconds----should I run inside the house to get the camcorder? Should I call the NWS? Should I keep watching it? I was still not convinced that it was a funnel cloud after all of this fretting --- but it persisted for at least 30 seconds and it was rapidly changing its form. ... When I got back outside, the funnel was gone. A very dark and suspicious cloud base persisted, though --- with a slightly lowered area that might be called a "poor-man's" wall cloud. I called the NWS office in Oxnard to report that I was rather certain that I had witnessed a funnel cloud, and that an ominous and suspicious updraft base persisted over the middle of the San Fernando Valley. ... The Fresno footage was of a cigar-shaped funnel perhaps 70 to 80 percent of the way from cloud to ground. ...

• But thunderstorms signify something far more serious for trained tornado spotters _ the possible formation of one or more tornadoes from just one thunderstorm cloud bank. ...
• Towers of rising air called cells form in the cloud bank, pushing more clouds high into the air. ...
• The result of all this activity is the formation of spinning air funnels inside the cloud bank called mesocyclones. A cloud bank may contain many mesocyclones. ...
• It is these mesocyclones that provide the foundation for rotating circles of air, called wall clouds, that form on the bottom of a cloud bank. ...
• Rotating wall clouds have the potential to form cones of air, from with a funnel cloud can be ``spun off. ...
• Collar told tornado spotters not to look up at the clouds but at the flat under-surface of the cloud bank, since this is where the wall clouds form. ...
• Another indicator that a funnel is forming is when observers can see dust and other debris being kicked up under the wall clouds. ...
• ``A dust whirl is a clear indication of a forming funnel,'' he said. ...
• It gives you a real clue that you better keep an eye out for a tornado,'' he warned, adding that ``if a funnel is half way or more the ground, report it as a funnel cloud. ...
• Anyone who spots a rotating funnel cloud should call their local law enforcement department, Collar said. ...

• A tornado is a vortex of air rising into a cloud. ... In some cases, these columns of rising air become a vortex, a funnel cloud, or tornado. ...
• Cooling condenses water vapor in the air into the tornado's familiar funnel-shaped cloud. As the swirling winds pick up dust, dirt, and debris from the ground, the funnel turns even darker. Twisters that pick up little dirt can retain their white, cloud coloration. ...
• Although the air is rising in a tornado, the funnel itself grows from the cloud toward the ground as the tornado is forming. Uncommonly known to most, the term "funnel cloud'' refers to a tornado-like vortex that doesn't reach the ground. When a funnel cloud touches the ground, it becomes a tornado. Often, however, apparent funnel clouds are already tornadoes. The part nearest the ground is still invisible because a cloud hasn't formed there and little dirt is being picked up. ...
• The lesson: Don't think you're safe near or under a funnel cloud. ...

• —Roll cloud formation on cumulonimbus.
• Although with weaker gust fronts, the roll cloud may appear rough, ragged, or bumpy, under certain conditions the roll cloud may appear very smooth. ... The turbulent action along the cold air outflow boundary may produce small-scale vortices on the ragged base of the roll cloud.   These  vortices  sometimes take on the appearance of small, ragged funnel clouds. The public commonly mistakes these vortices for funnel clouds and occasionally reports them as funnel clouds. ... Rarely, a cold-air funnel will develop sufficiently to reach the surface.   It does not have the strength of a true funnel cloud or tornado, and is about as powerful as a strong dust devil. ...  Usually,  the  damage  associated  with  sightings of cold-air funnels is caused by the much more powerful straight-line winds in and behind the outflow boundary (gust front) that produced the cold-air funnel. Another phenomenon associated with the outflow boundary is a dust cloud on or near the earth’s surface. ... A  wall  cloud,  a  sometimes  hollow,  generally circular patch of cloud with a ragged bottom edge, may lower from the base of a CB cell. A wall cloud is usually much smaller than the base of the CB cell, and will usually form in the right rear quadrant of the CB cell with respect to the CB's movement. When viewed from the side of the CB, the wall cloud usually is under the rear portion of the cell, where the billowy cloud tops appear to be tapering from the anvil top downward toward the rear portion of the cell.

• Gewitter mit Funnel-Cloud im Münchner Westen am 21. ...
• Nach kurzer Wetterberuhigung zog am Nachmittag eine Gewitterfront mit einer Funnel-Cloud und heftigem Platzregen über den Münchner Westen hinweg. ...
• Hier kann ein Zeitraffer-Video von der Funnel-Cloud im Münchner Westen abgerufen werden. ...

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• Distant, Classic Wall Cloud with Funnel.
• This textbook wall cloud and funnel dangled from an isolated supercell about 90 miles ahead of the dryline. ...

• This funnel cloud swirled over Makakilo.
• Waianae funnel cloud.
• WINDS over the Waianae range yesterday created a slowly swirling, funnel-shaped cloud that lingered long enough to be seen by hundreds of Leeward residents.
• James Causey, who watched from near the top of Makakilo after the cloud formed just before 6 p. ...
• The white funnel appeared over Makakilo near Palehua Ridge, extending down from a darker cloud bank, he said.
• Several people called the police and radio stations to describe their view of the cloud.
• And with a shallow cloud covering, it's visible to a lot of people. ...
• Larson said the convergence of weak tradewinds and a sea breeze from the Leeward Coast, plus the mountainous terrain, provide the air currents that create the swirling cloud.

• Funnel cloud  south of Centennial, Wyoming on Saturday May 24th.

•   I received this in the mail and it stated, " This is a picture that a co- worker took of a funnel cloud during the tornado warnings recently. What you are seeing is the funnel cloud and a tree that was blown down. ...
• Funnel cloud and a tree that was blown down .
• What I see in the pic of the funnel cloud and tree knocked down, is the figure of a person with their hand outstretched. ...

• Subject: todays funnel. ...
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• funnel was in the newspaper the next day. ...
• I've never seen one before and at first wasn't sure if it was a funnel .
• cloud because the edges weren't well defined but just before it broke .

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