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• "A Synoptic Climatology of Funnel Clouds in California. ...
• Abstract This paper is the first to highlight a climatology of funnel clouds in California. Funnel clouds often develop during the cool season as cold, deep upper lows propagate down the California coast. ... A twenty-five year data set from Storm Data for the period 1975-1999 is used to create a distribution of funnel clouds in the state. The data reveal that funnel cloud sightings closely match the distribution of tornadoes in the state. Funnel clouds are more numerous than tornadoes in the Central Valley, for example and more numerous along the central coast as well as the south coast. ... There is also a population bias as to where these events occur meaning funnel clouds could be more widespread than indicated as well as the tornado. ...

• 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. ...

• FUNNEL CLOUDS POSSIBLE OVER THE VICTORIA CROSSROADS THIS AFTERNOON. ... THE PUBLIC REPORTED A FUNNEL CLOUD NEAR BLOOMINGTON. THE PUBLIC ALSO REPORTED A FUNNEL CLOUD NORTH OF VICTORIA AT 330 PM. ... THE ATMOSPHERE WILL BE FAVORABLE FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF ADDITIONAL FUNNEL CLOUDS THIS AFTERNOON. MOST OF THESE FUNNEL CLOUDS WILL BE SHORT LIVED AND SHOULD NOT REACH THE GROUND. ... YOU SHOULD BE PREPARED TO SEEK SHELTER IN THE UNLIKELY EVENT A FUNNEL DOES REACH THE GROUND. ...

• Funnel clouds.
• You are here: Home Photo gallery Clouds Various cloud forms Funnel clouds .
• 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.

• Subject(s): funnel clouds.
• Title: LISTENER QUESTION: FUNNEL CLOUD.
• I listen to the Weather Notebook on KUMD radio out of Duluth, MN and my question is are funnel clouds really clouds and what determines a funnel cloud. ...
• Let’s see I’d say that the best place to start with this is with a description of a funnel cloud. ... A funnel cloud is just this a tornado like vortex that might eventually reach the ground and become a tornado but so far for the moment its spinning winds are aloft. ... A funnel is an extension of a cumulo nimbus, so some see it simply as a funnel. Not a funnel cloud. But Ted, if you want to call it a funnel cloud, you won’t be shunned by meteorologists. Just remember that when a funnel cloud starts rearranging things down on Earth, it’s then a tornado.

• Cold Air Funnel Clouds.
• Cold air funnel clouds, usually short-lived, develop from relatively small showers or thunderstorms when the air aloft is very in cold. ...
• The instability of the atmosphere may be sufficient to support deep connective clouds (towering cumulus) if there is enough moisture in the lowest part of the atmosphere. ...
• - The key feature is that the coldest air with the trough was over the area of the funnel about the time it occurred, and the 500 mb temperature was unseasonably low. ...
• - The main surface low was always well to the east of any reported funnel clouds. In 80% of the cases there were small secondary lows in the vicinity of the cold air funnel activity. ...
• Only on 1 day did the top of a thunderstorm associated with a cold air funnel exceed the tropopause height.
• In summary, the synoptic situation associated with funnel cloud and waterspout reports in Southwest Alaska June 25, 2002 do not fit any of the classic signatures of "cold air funnels. " I will discuss the characteristics of weak convection, and funnel clouds/waterspouts/and weak tornados next.

• Funnel Clouds Over Immokalee .
• The funnel in the center caught my attention and then .
• In this photo you can actually see a third funnel to the right.
• I will have to admit that the first time I saw a funnel was actually a waterspout over Tampa Bay. ...
• As much as I have watched the sky in the past, this is the first time I have seen a funnel over.
• clouds due to the buildings and trees in the area. ...

• Close examination of this photo reveals a funnel cloud. ... Funnel clouds may be the beginning, ending, or intermediate stage of a tornado event. ...

• It was a tremendous storm, with wild unusual clouds, wind and rain. I then noticed funnel clouds forming on the Connecticut River and across in NH. 15 or 20 black funnel clouds took shape and slowly made their way up the river. ... When the storm cleared, one could still see the funnel clouds parading away up the river valley and the storm moving away. ...

• Lashley said that what many people in the area reported as funnel clouds were actually “scud” clouds, which are often mistaken as funnel cloud “imposters. ...
• He defined scud clouds as “low-hanging clouds that do not rotate” and cannot cause a tornado. He further explained that tornadoes stem from funnel clouds that touch down on the ground and can create damage to an area with high winds. ...
• 33 in Goshen and in the areas of Middlebury and Millersburg Sunday night to investigate claims of funnel clouds, and said there has been no confirmation as to any real touchdowns and no reports of damage in the Michiana area. ...

• Bass coast waterspout and funnel clouds.
• 1 waterspout and 2 funnel clouds seen off the Bass coast -  23rd May 2001 .
• At 1:50 pm I got a call from a friend who was working in Wonthaggi who also has an interest in weather saying that he could see 1 possibly 2 waterspouts and 1 funnel cloud  from the base of this line of mature congesting cu. ... One very prominant defined funnel that was undoubtedly in decent contact with the sea surface and another visible approximately 40% of the way down and a weak dissapating funnel. ... Meanwhile the second most prominant funnel (possible waterspout also)had weakend and seemed to lack something and just continued as a funnel cloud. ... By the time I managed to get my gear up and running again all that was left were 2 funnel clouds at 2:05pm (approx. ... At one stage the closest funnel (the former prominant waterspout) passed in front of a bright white section of cumulus that was in the distance. I could see clearly through the condensation funnel as it was only about 200m away at the most. ...
• DISSAPATING WATERSPOUT AND FUNNEL CLOUD   -  23. ...

• FUNNEL CLOUDS SEEN IN CONTRA COSTA COUNTY.
• A number of people reported seeing funnel clouds this afternoon in Contra Costa County, the National Weather Service said. ...
• According to Rebecca Waddington, a student intern at the San Francisco Bay Area Weather Forecast Office, numerous "spotters'' said they saw a funnel cloud moving eastward above Bailey Road at State Highway 4 between Pittsburg and Concord around 5 p. ...
• to report a funnel cloud 15 miles northeast of Mount Diablo. ...
• A funnel cloud is tornado that has not touched the ground. ...
• Because there were no indications of rain, hail, lightening and thunder, Waddington said the National Weather Service was not expecting the clouds to turn into tornadoes.

• Storm clouds swell on the eastern horizon late Tuesday afternoon. Severe weather got an early start Tuesday when a storm produced two tornadoes and at least five funnel clouds in an area stretching from Kimball to northwest Sidney.
• A relatively docile-looking storm spawned at least five funnel clouds and two tornadoes Tuesday, starting shortly before noon. Severe weather spotters reported sightings of several funnel clouds from Kimball to northwest Sidney.
• A funnel cloud was reported north of Dix causing the tornado warning siren to be activated there. The funnel did not touch down and receded back into the storm.
• Two funnel clouds were spotted north of Potter. ...
• Two more funnel clouds were reported that never made contact with the ground, one northwest of Brownson and the other near Huntsman.

• By noon the low clouds had started to break over the eastern plains of Colorado with bright, late spring sunshine filtering through the forming puffy cumulous clouds. ...
• By 4 o'clock there were spotter reports of funnel clouds and a possible tornado near Parker, CO. ... There was a lot of unorganized cumulous clouds drifting in the sky and no storm development yet. ...
• All the low lying unorganized clouds to the west of the line had completely dissappeared. ... The line of storms had developed a dark flat imposing underside with small wall clouds spaced along its underside every 5 miles or so.
• At 5:06 pm from my vantage point I observed a long sharp funnel immediately appear to my north-east. ... Rain began to fall at my location and was beginning to obscure the funnel cloud. ...
• From this location I had a great view of the wall cloud that had developed the first brief funnel. A small nub funnel was visible in the center of the wall cloud with a developing dust cloud directly beneath it. For the next five minutes the dust whirl continued on the ground with only a faint visible connection to the funnel above.
• At 5:19 pm things got much more interesting! I had turned off my camcorder to conserve batteries and was driving down the interstate further to stay ahead of the rain when out of my side window I saw that the funnel was now a fully connected tornado churning up the field to my north-west. ...

• STORMREPORTS funnel clouds in Northwest Ohio .
• There were funnel clouds spotted in Northwest Ohio, Williams county .
• funnel cloud forming. ...
• funnel clouds disappated quickly. ...

• Funnel clouds hit farms.
• A funnel cloud had touched down in his yard. ...
• In an interview on Monday evening, LaCoste said he had actually seen the funnel cloud touch down that night. ...
• LaCoste tried to contact his neighbour, Jerry Cugnet, to warn him of the oncoming funnel cloud. ...
• Most of the items in his yard, like feed troughs, were not moved or touched by the funnel. ...

• Newest Pics of Funnel Clouds .
• Best Pics and funnel clouds .

• Funnel cloud sightings are reported around the.
•    Funnel clouds, hail, rain, lightning and thunder showered down from Oregon skies Tuesday night, creating a display rarely seen in this area.
•    Some of the wildest sights were in Yamhill County, where a funnel cloud (a tornado that has not touched the ground) was reported near McMinnville.
•    Mark O’Malley, a meteorological intern at the National Weather Service, said funnel cloud reports and photos also came in from Tigard, although there was no way of determining whether it was one cloud or separate occurrences.
• When he spotted the funnel clouds, he went inside to grab a camera.
•    Harold added that in his roughly two-and-a-half years living in the area, he has watched thunderheads move around the valley several times, but has never seen a funnel cloud.
• Reports of hail were heavy in the Salem area, lightning and thunder were spotted throughout the region, and funnel clouds were reported between McMinnville and Tigard.
•    O’Malley said that because funnel clouds by definition do not touch ground and cause measurable damage and because they are too small for radar to detect, there is no way to measure their speed. ...
•    “That’s something you stay completely away from,” Dale said of both funnel clouds and thunderstorms. ...

• Anvil clouds, wall clouds, and funnel clouds are examples of accessory clouds.
• Altocumulus- Middle level cumulus clouds. They are composed of liquid drops and have patches of clouds arranged in regular patterns.
• Altostratus- Middle level stratus clouds. ...
• Anvil- The ice crystal clouds blown downwind from the top of a cumulonimbus thunderstorm clouds.
• Cirrus- The general term for high clouds composed of ice crystals. ...
• Cirrocumulus- Patches within cirrus clouds that give the appearance of the mackerel sky. ...
• Cirrostratus- High clouds composed of ice crystal stratus. ...
• Cumulus- The general term for vertically developing clouds. ...
• Stable air above the shallow layer of unstable air limits the growth of these clouds. ...
• They are isolated low level stratus clouds that can often be seen around the base of thunderstorms. ...
• Funnel cloud- The cloud produced from condensation from a rotating column of air. The funnel cloud is the visible portion of a tornado produced from clouds. A funnel cloud is not a tornado if the circulation is not in contact with the ground.
• Lenticular- Lenticular clouds are clouds that form above mountains that have a lens and flying saucer shape. ...
• Mammatus- Mammatus are pouched shaped clouds that protrude downward from the thunderstorm's anvil. ...

• CLOUDS QUIZ .
• com/clouds/ and other sources.
• These are high clouds that are composed of ice crystals:.
• Clouds that develop due to convective uplift are termed:.
• Stratiform clouds.
• Noctilucent clouds.
• Cumulus clouds.
• Funnel cloud.
• All the following are cirrus type clouds except:.
• Precipitation generated from dynamic lifting and not convective lifting will fall from a _____________ clouds.
• The two ingredients needed to form clouds aloft are:.
• Which clouds occurs at the highest altitude:.
• The most fair weathered and smallest of the cumulus clouds is the:.
• The clouds produced behind aircraft exhaust that is often visible high aloft are called contrails.
• Funnel cloud.

• STORMREPORTS Funnel Clouds Over Northwest Illinois .
• There were several sightings of funnel clouds. ...

• Curious Funnel Clouds at Sea.
• Slowly, the breeze picks up and off to the south you notice a dark phalanx of clouds approaching. ...
• Afternoon thunderstorms are common in summer, but as you gather your belongings you notice something else about those dark clouds over the water. ...
• Reaching down from the clouds in a meandering funnel, as if searching for a place to connect its loose end, it anchors on the water. The funnel can be white, gray, or almost black and range in diameter from a few inches to several hundred feet. ... Thin funnels are associated with dry air and elevated clouds, while thick funnels seem to form from low clouds during high humidity conditions. ... In the process, a large ring of spray, called a cascade, is whipped up around the base of each funnel for a dramatic display. ...
• Tropical latitudes have many more of these than mid-latitudes, but there's a good chance of spotting a fair-weather funnel cloud during the summer months if you spend a lot of time on the beach or in a boat. ...
• If you are one of the unfortunates, he suggests noting the direction the funnel is moving and whether it seems to grow or shrink in diameter. ...
• Ancient Chinese sailors believed waterspouts were dragons flying down from the sky with their heads in the ocean and tails in the clouds. ...
• Some waterspouts have produced amazing "rains" of animals or objects that have been sucked into the funnel, airlifted high into the clouds, then ejected forcefully and plopped into the sea or on a beach some distance away. ...

• Night of two funnel clouds over water.
• Night of two funnel clouds over water. ...

• Lots of convection popping up over northeast wisconsin with several funnel clouds reported throughout the area. ...
• A funnel forming in the center of the wall cloud.
• A close-up of the funnel cloud.
• Here is the funnel forming to the left.
• A closer look at the funnel.
• The funnel is just above the trees.

• Funnel Clouds over Lake Ontario In December 30,1998.
• I am always looking at the clouds even in the winter over the lake because I had already been informed that these "Steam Devils" could happen over water during an Arctic blast of cold air. ... As I crossed the Welland canal on the high QEW bridge I was amazed to see not one but many funnel clouds and some appeared to be full blown water spouts from the cloud base to the water surface! I had no camera so I raced home to get my equipment and zipped up to the lake. ...
•     Anyway, It was quite a show, you could watch all kinds of funnel.
• Some grew up from the water to meet the funnel coming down from the cloud base. ...
• METAR CYSN 301500Z 32010KT 15SM -SHSN FC SCT015 M12/M15 A2997 RMK SC3 FUNNEL CLOUD FC OVR LK VSBY W-S 4 SLP153 .
• Funnel Cloud.
• FUNNEL CLOUD FC OVR LK.
• Funnel Cloud Over Lake.

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