funnel cloud
noun
: a funnel-shaped cloud that projects from the base of a thundercloud and that often precedes the formation of a tornado
also
: tornado sense 1a
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As the crew plant themselves in position, rods shoot out and drill deep into the ground, holding the truck in place and preventing it from being sucked into the funnel cloud — all modifications based on real-life tornado chaser trucks.
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Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 20 July 2024
There were no reports of injuries, the department said in a post on X.
Weather watchers in Oswego, west of Chicago, captured footage of an enormous funnel cloud just after 10 p.m. Monday.
—Patrick Smith, NBC News, 16 July 2024
The National Weather Service is tasked with figuring out if damage after a bad storm was caused by a microburst or a tornado, even when social media is awash with videos of funnel clouds.
—John Tufts, The Indianapolis Star, 10 July 2024
But this is an invisible threat that unfolds over many days, Olson says, unlike a roaring funnel cloud or the rushing wall of an ocean storm surge.
—Andrea Thompson, Scientific American, 19 June 2024
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Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 20 July 2024
There were no reports of injuries, the department said in a post on X.
Weather watchers in Oswego, west of Chicago, captured footage of an enormous funnel cloud just after 10 p.m. Monday.
—Patrick Smith, NBC News, 16 July 2024
The National Weather Service is tasked with figuring out if damage after a bad storm was caused by a microburst or a tornado, even when social media is awash with videos of funnel clouds.
—John Tufts, The Indianapolis Star, 10 July 2024
But this is an invisible threat that unfolds over many days, Olson says, unlike a roaring funnel cloud or the rushing wall of an ocean storm surge.
—Andrea Thompson, Scientific American, 19 June 2024
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