altostratus!
A tornado starts out as a funnel cloud.
vortex
The cloud starts turning clockwise then turns into a funnel
nimbus clouds
There are many types of lightning STREAMERS that start a lightning strike. There are 3 basic places where streamers will originate from. They can come from a cloud to the ground or the ground to a cloud or from cloud to cloud. So your teacher was correct. But not always from the ground.
funnel cloud
The motto of Cloud County Community College is 'Going Anywhere Starts Here!'.
Nebula
unfriendly storm clouds
Steam is the word.
Cloud base refers to the altitude above the ground at which the lowest portion of a cloud is observed. Cloud ceiling, on the other hand, is the height above the ground of the lowest cloud layer covering more than half of the sky. Cloud base is the specific altitude at which a cloud starts, while cloud ceiling is the overall height of the lowest cloud layer in the sky.
sometimes it does but not allways _______________________________________________________________________ It actually starts from the cloud base when a stepped leader comes down from the cloud base and meets the return stroke from the ground, which is what makes the visible lightning that we see with our eyes. In the nice attempt to educate you, your science teacher was incorrect.