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Category: Funnel Clouds

Funnel Clouds: July 19-20, 2009

Posted at 03:56 PM on July 19, 2009 Comments comments (0)

Several cold air funnel clouds were observed Sunday the 19th and Monday the 20th across northern Indiana and northwest Ohio. Cold air funnels usually don't touch the ground, and therefore, are usually not a tornado threat. Below is a list of reports from the National Weather Service.

 

Time -- Event -- City -- Lat/Lon

Date -- County -- State -- Source

Remarks/Comments

 

12:12pm -- Funnel Cloud -- Rensselaer --...

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Very Large Hail & Funnel Cloud: June 19, 2009

Posted at 07:57 PM on June 21, 2009 Comments comments (0)

During the afternoon hours of Friday, June 19, a supercell thunderstorm developed across northcentral Indiana. This storm produced a funnel cloud and several wall clouds. None of these cloud formations touched the ground to be called a tornado. This storm did, however, produce very large hail -- up to grapefruit size!

 

For a more detailed and in-depth analysis of this isolated supercell, please read the following storm summary prepared by the National Weather ...

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Funnel Clouds: June 11, 2009

Posted at 08:42 AM on June 18, 2009 Comments comments (0)

This article was written by the National Weather Service.

Numerous funnel cloud reports were received from portions of Northwest Ohio Thursday afternoon (Figures 1,2, and 3). The funnel clouds were associated with rain showers similar in the circled area in Figure 4. It is interesting that the funnel clouds were associated with shallow convection as indicated by the lack of any lightning and shallow cloud tops of less than 16,000 feet. Even though atmospheric co...

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