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Which of these is a narrow funnel of air extending down from a cumulonimbus cloud?
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Is a stratus cloud a funnel cloud?
No. Stratus clouds are low level, usually flat clouds that can bring rain or snow but usually do not indicate hazardous weather. A funnel cloud is a rotating downward projection of a cumulonimbus that is often cone shaped.
What does a cumulonimbus cloud produce?
A cumulonimbus cloud produces rain.
What forms from a cumulonimbus cloud called a wall cloud?
First. A wall cloud is not a cumulonimbus clouds, but is a smaller cloud that extends from the base of a cumulonimbus. Tornadoes often form from wall clouds.
What are tornado's and thunderstorms?
A thunderstorm is a rain storm that produces thunder and lightning usually associated with a cumulonimbus cloud. They can also produce strong, sometimes damaging and hail. A tornado is a violently rotating and often destructive column of air extending from the base of a thunderstorm to the ground, often made visible by a condensation funnel.
What is the cloud that produces hail?
Hail comes from cumulonimbus clouds.
What is a narrow funnel of air extending down from a cumulonimbus cloud?
a tornado :) 100%
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 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
Does a tornado come from a cumulonibus cloud?
Yes. Tornadoes are produced by thunderstorms, which from from cumulonimbus cloud. Usually a wall cloud and then a funnel cloud develop at the base of a cumulonimbus cloud before a tornado touches down.
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.
What causes a funnel cloud?
Afunnel cloud is a funnel-shaped cloud of condensed water droplets, associated with a rotating column of wind and extending from the base of a cloud (usually a cumulonimbus or towering cumulus cloud) but not reaching the ground or a water surface. A funnel cloud is usually visible as a cone-shaped or needle like protuberance from the main cloud base. Funnel clouds form most frequently in association with supercell thunderstorms.If a funnel cloud touches the ground it becomes a tornado. Most tornadoes begin as funnel clouds, but many funnel clouds do not make ground contact and so do not become tornadoes. Also, a tornado does not necessarily need to have an associated condensation funnel---if strong cyclonic winds are occurring at the surface (and connected to a cloud base, regardless of condensation), then the feature is a tornado. Some tornadoes may appear only as a debris swirl, with no obvious funnel cloud extending below the rotating cloud base.A funnel cloud that touches down on, or moves over water is a waterspout.
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 is a rotating cone shaped column of air extending downward from a cloud?
Funnel cloud
What cloud forms tornado?
Tornadoes are produces by cumulonimbus clouds. Often a wall cloud and/or funnel cloud are seen before or during a tornado.
What happens when a funnel cloud pokes through a cumulonimbus cloud?
It forms a funnel cloud.
