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Storm profile: INCREDIBLE Shelf cloud!
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| June 12,
| Steve LaNore
Posted on 06/13/2009 4:34:46 AM PDT by JoeProBono
A band of intense thunderstorms moved through Oklahoma and Arkansas on the morning of June 12, 2009.
This series of photographs shows how such a storm sometimes appears. Some storm spotters call this the spaceship or UFO cloud. The official name is shelf cloud.
Cold air produced by heavy rain rushes out ahead of the storm; as the cooler denser air lifts the surrounding moisture, it can create this odd-looking cloud. Shelf clouds may or may not be accompanied by severe winds; but they are not tornadoes.
TOPICS: Weather
KEYWORDS: clouds
To: JoeProBono
That’s even cooler than those Asparagus clouds.
To: All
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posted on
06/13/2009 4:36:55 AM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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posted on
06/13/2009 4:38:39 AM PDT
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JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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posted on
06/13/2009 4:41:08 AM PDT
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JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: JoeProBono
Pretty impressive clouds
I used to be impressed as well until I lived though this

It's all in the perspective.
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posted on
06/13/2009 4:43:20 AM PDT
by
Popman
(Joe Biden REALLY can't be Vice President, can he ?)
To: ansel12
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06/13/2009 4:44:02 AM PDT
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JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: Popman
"It's all in the perspective."
Yup
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posted on
06/13/2009 4:47:07 AM PDT
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JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: JoeProBono
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posted on
06/13/2009 5:09:06 AM PDT
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ExGeeEye
(Free men do not have to ask permission.)
To: JoeProBono
Don’t stalk me and ping me to threads that I am not on.
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posted on
06/13/2009 5:16:33 AM PDT
by
ansel12
(Romney (guns)"instruments of destruction with the sole purpose of hunting down and killing people")
To: Popman
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posted on
06/13/2009 5:18:57 AM PDT
by
central_va
(www.15thVirginia.org Co. C, Patrick Henry Rifles)
To: JoeProBono
Great pictures and now I know the name of those cloud formations.
To: JoeProBono
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posted on
06/13/2009 5:41:24 AM PDT
by
PGalt
To: PGalt
Thx
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posted on
06/13/2009 5:44:10 AM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: All
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posted on
06/13/2009 5:48:23 AM PDT
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JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: JoeProBono
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posted on
06/13/2009 6:11:32 AM PDT
by
ElayneJ
To: ExGeeEye
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