So you have funnel clouds that are rotating columns of air, much like a tornado, but the key thing is that they do not reach the ground. With a pretty robust thunderstorm, they can quickly and ...

A terrifying funnel cloud caught on camera was possibly a tornado touching down in central Florida as the Sunshine State ...

How does a tornado form? (WMBF) We tend to see tornado warnings with these clouds and with those thunderstorms we get those downdraft and those winds pushing that vertically rotating column of air ...

This causes horizontal rotation. The lift within the storm causes the storm to shift more vertically leading to a funnel cloud reaching the ground, resulting in a tornado. If you are ever in a ...

Scud clouds are formed when cooler air meets warm, humid air, said Brad Small, a NWS meteorologist. "They're not severely hazardous in any way, shape or form," he said.

Tornado Alley, which covers portions of the Great Plains and Midwest, experiences “a higher propensity for tornadic development” because all the key ingredients to form one are found there ...

They rarely lead to tornadoes. - Wall Clouds, by contrast, form from inflow winds, often rotate, and are typically associated with severe storms and tornado development.

And among what tornadoes excel at, including causing destruction, is evading researchers’ ability to understand it. Here is a simplified explanation of how a tornado is formed during severe weather.