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Which of these is a narrow funnel of air extending down from a cumulonimbus cloud?
A tornado is a narrow funnel of air that extends down from a cumulonimbus cloud, usually associated with severe thunderstorms.
What has a funnel and is at the bottom of a cumulonimbus cloud?
A tornado has a funnel and is at the bottom of a cumulonimbus cloud. If its winds do not reach the ground, though it is just a funnel cloud.
What cloud looks like a funnel and touching the ground?
A tornado cloud, also known as a funnel cloud, is a violent rotating column of air extending from a cumulonimbus cloud to the ground. Tornadoes are typically associated with severe thunderstorms and can cause significant damage and destruction. They are characterized by their distinctive funnel shape and destructive winds.
What happens when the spinning of air moves to the bottom of the cumulonimbus cloud?
It forms a funnel cloud.
What often happens after you spot a cumulonimbus cloud?
The cloud starts turning clockwise then turns into a funnel
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.
Is a cirrus cloud a funnel cloud?
No. A cirrus cloud is a high, wavy, thin cloud formed of ice crystals. Funnel clouds are usually formed from cumulonimbus clouds (thunderclouds) at lower altitudes.
How do you tell when there is a funnel cloud?
A funnel cloud is a rotating column of air that extends from the base of a thunderstorm. They can be identified by their funnel-shaped appearance extending downwards from the cloud. Funnel clouds may or may not reach the ground to become tornadoes.
Which clouds develop tornadoes?
Tornadoes form in thunderstorms, which are composed of cumulonimbus clouds. Usually a tornado will form from a wall cloud that develops are the based of the cumulonimbus cloud, and will develop from a funnel cloud that comes out of the wall cloud.
What are cumulonimbus tornadoes?
There is no such thing as a cumulonimbus tornado. A cumulonimbus cloud is a ver large towering cloud. Most thunderstorms are cumulonimbus clouds, and some of the strongest of these storms are what produce tornadoes.
When a funnel cloud pokes through the bottom of a cumulonimbus cloud and makes contact with the ground what does it form?
When a funnel cloud touches the ground, it forms a tornado. Tornadoes are rapidly rotating columns of air that extend from the base of a cumulonimbus cloud to the ground. They can cause significant damage due to their strong winds and intense rotation.
What happens when a funnel cloud pokes through a cumulonimbus cloud?
It forms a funnel cloud.
