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National Severe Storms Laboratory
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Cumulus clouds forming over water.Some clouds appear to be developing into a thunderstorm.
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Globular mammatus clouds with radar in foreground.Often associated with thuderstorms and severe weather.
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Anvil of large cumulonimbus thunderhead during early stages of developing storm.
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Building line of cumulonimbus thunderstorms.View is from behind storms during early stages of development.
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Dust Storm
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Approaching thunderstorm with lead gust front.Rain-cooled air from the storm moves out ahead of the storm.It ploughs under the warm moist air forming a flatshelf cloud.
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Globular mammatus clouds with radar in foreground.Often associated with thunderstorms and severe weather.
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Towering cumulus. Mammatus clouds visible under theanvil.
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Wall cloud - Towering cumulus with rain-free base.A wall cloud, a lowering of the cloud base underneath main stormupdraft, forms in this thunderstorm. Tornadoes can form out ot the wall clouds.
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Approaching thunderstorm with lead gust front.Rain-cooled air from the storm moves out ahead of the storm.It ploughs under the warm moist air forming a flatshelf cloud.
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Cumulonimbus (Thunderstorm) forming in background.Smaller low levelscudappearing in foreground.
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Isolated supercell south of Norman Ok. Photo taken from roof of NSSL.
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Isolated severe thunderstorm.Main updraft core is in the background, storm anvil is in upper foreground.
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Severe thunderstorm with a clear slot near main updraft core.Typically a tornado, if present, will form in this area.
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Thunderstorm out flow from storm core shows up as sheets of wind driven rainspreading from right to left in 1982 photo.
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Lowering wall cloud under main thunderstorm updraft.Tornadoes will generally form in and ground the wall cloud.
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Towering Cumulus.
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Up-looking radar captures internal structure of thunderstorm.
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Roped-out tornado visible in the distance.
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A very large hailstone.
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