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They are often dark gray or even black, but not always. In terms of color they could look like fairly ordinary storm clouds.

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Is the dark base of a tornado called the wall cloud?

No, the wall cloud is a lowered section of the cloud base from which a tornado or funnel cloud descends. The dark cloud at the base of a tornado is called the debris cloud.


What is a shape coming down from a large cloud that is shaped like a funnel cloud?

Most likely it is a funnel cloud. If it touches the ground then it is a tornado.


What causes the tornado funnel cloud to black and dark?

The funnel cloud of a tornado is full of water droplets just like an ordinary cloud. As a result it blocks light and may appear dark. A tornado may also appear dark if it is lifting large amounts of dark soil into the air. However, not all tornadoes are dark in color. Front-lit tornadoes may appear light gray or even white. Depending on the soil some tornadoes may be light tan, to reddish brown, to gray in color.


What type of cloud is in a tornado?

The cloud that forms the visible part of a tornado is called a funnel cloud.


How does a tornado make dusk?

It is often dark during a tornado not because of the tornado itself, but becasue of the parent thunderstorm. The thunderstorm consists of a very tall cumulonimbus cloud, which blocks out most sunlight.


What are dark rain clouds?

The water droplets coming out of vapour phase in a cloud reflect sunlight. This makes the sunwards side of a cloud shiny white and the opposite side of the cloud dark and grey.


Why is a tornado visible?

There are two components that make a tornado visible. The first is the condensation funnel or funnel cloud, which forms from moisture condensing inside the tornado. The other component is the debris cloud. This consists of dust and debris lifted into the air by the tornado's winds.


What do you call a tornado that does not touch the ground?

A tornado that does not touch the ground is a funnel cloud.


What does a tornado come out of?

A tornado usually emerges from a wall cloud, which is at the base of a cumulonimbus cloud.


Is a funnel cloud a tornado?

Not technically. It is the beginning of a tornado, but they are categorized differently. It is not considered a tornado until it reaches the ground with damaging winds.


What is a name for a funnel cloud touching the ground?

A funnel cloud that touches the ground is commonly known as a tornado.


When the tip of the funnel cloud touches the ground it becomes a?

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