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wall cloud

A well-defined bank of vertically developed clouds with a wall-like appearance, often dropping below the level of the general overcast.
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"I remember saying to Brett, 'the wall cloud is getting closer, closer--oh shoot, it's turning.'
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Fun Fact: Meteorologists sometimes call this a wall cloud.
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Eyes will not only tell the intensity of the rain, seeing the outflow from the storm, a shelf or wall cloud that precedes the storm and the actual width of the holes or breaks is the best way to decide whether to punch or run.
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After that, no more tornadoes were reported, but this supercell continued to produce large hail, straight-line wind damage, a massive wall cloud, and funnel clouds until it moved over Lake Michigan between the cities of Racine and Kenosha.
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Satellites can show the clouds, their temperature and moisture content, but it takes a spotter to see the wall cloud forming beneath the anvil shape of a thunderhead that often precedes a tornado - the last one in Lane County hit Creswell in 1999.
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* The eye is surrounded by wall clouds, where the strongest winds and heaviest rains are found.
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