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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 has to happen to a funnel cloud to be classified as a tornado?
To be classified as a tornado, a funnel cloud must make contact with the ground. Once the funnel cloud touches the ground, it becomes a tornado and is classified based on its size, intensity, and associated damage.
What happens before the tornado hits the ground?
Before a tornado hits the ground, a rotating column of air forms in the storm cloud known as a funnel cloud. This funnel cloud extends towards the ground, and once it makes contact, the tornado is then officially considered to have touched down.
What is A sudden electric discharge between parts of a cloud between nearby clouds or beween a cloud and the ground is?
That is called a lightning strike. It is a sudden electrical discharge that occurs during a thunderstorm when there is a buildup of electric charge in the atmosphere. Lightning can strike within a cloud, between clouds, or between a cloud and the ground.
Why does a tornado have to touch the ground to be a tornado?
By the meteorological definition a tornado extends from cloud base to the ground. If it does not, it cannot produce damage. However, just because the visible funnel doesn't touch the ground doesn't mean the strong winds don't. It is the vortex of wind which defines a tornado, not the funnel.
Why are shadows cast on the ground?
A shadow is a place where direct light has been blocked from reaching in the presence of direct light around it. Because most direct light is received from the sun, the shadow is cast on the ground. The light would normally have reached the ground, but something (a person, a building, a cloud, etc.) blocked the light between the sun and the ground resulting in a shadow.
How many different types of lighting strikes are there?
There are three main types of lightning strikes: cloud-to-ground strikes, intra-cloud strikes, and cloud-to-cloud strikes. Cloud-to-ground strikes are the most common and well-known type, where lightning extends from the cloud to the ground. Intra-cloud strikes occur within the cloud itself, and cloud-to-cloud strikes happen between different clouds.
Is a tornado a funnel cloud that has touched the ground?
True, but not that the funnel itself does not have to reach the ground, just the violent vortex associated with it.
Does lighting come from the ground?
There are 3 main places lightening can travel from. The ground to a cloud, a cloud to a cloud, and the cloud to the ground.
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 cloud to cloud lightning called?
Cloud-to-cloud lightning is commonly referred to as intracloud lightning because it occurs entirely within the same cloud without reaching the ground.
Does lightning start from the ground and go up or start from the clouds and go down?
There are three types of lightening, There is Ground-to-cloud, Cloud-to-ground and cloud-to-cloud.
Is a tornado a cloud?
No. A tornado is a violently rotating column of air extending from the base of a thunderstorm to the ground. A tornado is often, but not always made visible by a funnel cloud. But the tornado is not the cloud itself.
What is a cloud formed near the ground?
fogfogA cloud that forms close to the ground is known as a stratus cloud.
You were told from a earth science teacher that lightning starts from the ground is this true?
There are many types of lightning STREAMERS that start a lightning strike. There are 3 basic places where streamers will originate from. They can come from a cloud to the ground or the ground to a cloud or from cloud to cloud. So your teacher was correct. But not always from the ground.
A funnel cloud touching the ground?
A funnel cloud that touches the ground is a tornado.
Is fog a ground level cloud?
Yes, fog is a ground level cloud.
