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Wall Cloud with Lightning

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Title: Wall Cloud with Lightning

Caption: Wall cloud with lightning. Miami, Texas. A wall cloud (or pedestal cloud) is a large, lowering, and rotating base of a cumulonimbus cloud that potentially forms tornadoes. It is typically beneath the rain-free base (RFB) portion of a deep cumulus cloud (normally cumulonimbus but on rare occasion cumulus congestus), and indicates the area of primary and strongest updraft which condenses into cloud at altitudes lower than that of the ambient cloud base. Most strong tornadoes form from wall clouds.

Category: WEATHER

Credit: Album / NOAA/Science Source

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Image size: 1840 × 1196 px | 6.3 MB

Print size: 15.6 × 10.1 cm | 724.4 × 470.9 in (300 dpi)

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