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What is the funnel of a tornado called?
tornado is often made visible by a distinctive funnel-shaped cloud. Commonly called the condensation funnel, the funnel cloud is a tapered column of water droplets that extends downward from the base of the parent cloud. It is commonly mixed with and perhaps enveloped by dust and debris lifted from the surface.
Is a tornado called a thunderstorm before it touches the ground?
No. It is called a funnel cloud. However, tornadoes are produced by thunderstorms.
What are tornadoes called when they hit the ground?
A tornado that touches the ground is simply a tornado. Before it touches down it is called a funnel cloud.
How long does it take for a funnel cloud to touch the ground?
It can take anywhere from just a few seconds, to several minutes, if the funnel cloud reaches the ground at all.
What has to happen to a funnel cloud to be classified as a tornado?
Either the funnel cloud or the violent, rotating winds associated with it must reach the ground in order to be classified as a tornado.
What is a funnel-shaped cloud called?
A funnel shaped cloud is called a funnel cloud. If it touches the ground it is called a tornado.
What is the synomym of funnel cloud?
A funnel cloud may be called a condensation funnel or simply a funnel.
When the tip of the funnel cloud touches the ground it becomes a?
tornado clouds
What is a funnel cloud that touches the cloud?
All funnel clouds touch the clouds. A funnel cloud that touched the ground is called a tornado.
A funnel cloud touching the ground is what?
a funnel cloud touching the ground is then called a tornado
What is the difference between a funnel cloud and tornado?
A tornado has actually touched down on the ground - a funnel cloud is a spinning cloud that has not actually touched the ground.
When a tornado has not touched the ground yet what is it called?
A tornado that has touched the ground is called a funnel cloud.
What clouds are there in a tornado?
The funnel of a tornado itself is a called a funnel cloud, though this term is usually reserved for when it does not touch the ground. The funnel cloud often emerges from a low-hanging cloud called a wall cloud, which is attatched to the base of a cumulonimbus cloud.
What is the funnel of a tornado called?
tornado is often made visible by a distinctive funnel-shaped cloud. Commonly called the condensation funnel, the funnel cloud is a tapered column of water droplets that extends downward from the base of the parent cloud. It is commonly mixed with and perhaps enveloped by dust and debris lifted from the surface.
A twisting cloud that comes before a tornado is called a?
Funnel cloud.
What is a twisting funnel cloud called?
it's called a tornado...
What is called the low hanging cloud base that spawns tornadoes?
The funnel cloud.
