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Storm profile: INCREDIBLE Shelf cloud!
examiner ^ | 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


1 posted on 06/13/2009 4:34:46 AM PDT by JoeProBono
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To: JoeProBono

That’s even cooler than those Asparagus clouds.


2 posted on 06/13/2009 4:36:32 AM PDT by Batrachian
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3 posted on 06/13/2009 4:36:55 AM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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4 posted on 06/13/2009 4:38:39 AM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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5 posted on 06/13/2009 4:41:08 AM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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To: JoeProBono
Pretty impressive clouds

I used to be impressed as well until I lived though this


It's all in the perspective.

6 posted on 06/13/2009 4:43:20 AM PDT by Popman (Joe Biden REALLY can't be Vice President, can he ?)
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7 posted on 06/13/2009 4:44:02 AM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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To: Popman
"It's all in the perspective."

Yup


8 posted on 06/13/2009 4:47:07 AM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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9 posted on 06/13/2009 5:09:06 AM PDT by ExGeeEye (Free men do not have to ask permission.)
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Don’t stalk me and ping me to threads that I am not on.


10 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")
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To: Popman

The eye of the devil....


11 posted on 06/13/2009 5:18:57 AM PDT by central_va (www.15thVirginia.org Co. C, Patrick Henry Rifles)
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To: JoeProBono

Great pictures and now I know the name of those cloud formations.


12 posted on 06/13/2009 5:21:36 AM PDT by Roses0508
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To: JoeProBono

Great pics.


13 posted on 06/13/2009 5:41:24 AM PDT by PGalt
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To: PGalt
Thx


14 posted on 06/13/2009 5:44:10 AM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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15 posted on 06/13/2009 5:48:23 AM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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To: JoeProBono

Wow! Very interesting.


16 posted on 06/13/2009 6:11:32 AM PDT by ElayneJ
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To: ExGeeEye

lolz beat me to it.


17 posted on 06/13/2009 8:59:45 AM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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