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A wall cloud looks like a lowering of the cloud base, often with a tail like projection on it.

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What is a wall cloud on a tornado?

A wall cloud is a lowering of a cloud base that is often seen before a tornado forms. It marks the most intense portion of the mesocyclone, the rotating updraft from which a tornado forms. The links below shows picture of what wall clouds often look like.


Is the mesocyclone under the wall cloud or next to the wall cloud?

The mesocyclone is typically located next to the wall cloud, in the rear portion of the thunderstorm updraft. The wall cloud is the lowering, rotating cloud that often forms at the base of a supercell thunderstorm where the mesocyclone is present.


Name of lower cloud base often associated with tornado formations?

Wall cloud.


How does a cumulus cloud look like?

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How much damage does the wall cloud do?

The wall cloud itself doesn't do the damage. The wall cloud is an indicator of rotation in a thunderstorm that can lead to the formation of a tornado.


Is there a wall cloud with a tornado?

There often is. Most tornadoes are associated with a wall cloud but not all.


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What does the inside of a cloud look like?

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Strong tornadoes form in a low cloud just below a thunderstorm what kind of cloud is this called?

This kind of cloud is typically called a wall cloud. Wall clouds are often associated with severe thunderstorms and can be a precursor to the development of a tornado.


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nothing it look like anterunibus cloud the new cloud that the first guy invented and went to jupinter


Sighns of a tornado?

A wall cloud is suspended from a cumulonimbus cloud (mostly during thunderstorms). Then the wall cloud begins rotating counter-clockwise. Then a funnel cloud will drop from it.


What is the wall cloud in a tornado?

The wall cloud is a large section of cloud extending down from the base of a thunderstorm. The wall cloud marke the strongest part of the mesocyclone, which is the rotating updraft that can produce a tornado. A funnel cloud or tornado usually extends from the base of a wall cloud.