what is the name given to clouds that are producing rain in convection-cell thunderstorms?
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What Type of Cloud Produces Heavy Rain, Lightning, Thunder, Hail and Strong Winds? Cumulonimbus clouds produce rain, hail and other attributes of thunderstorms. These clouds begin as cumulus clouds that achieve vertical growth. Tornadoes are also a product of cumulonimbus clouds.
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- Finally there is the cumulonibus cloud, also known as a thunderhead. it has not either a high, middle, or low cloud. it stretches from the high clouds to the low clouds. as you can guess by its name, it produces heavy rain and thunderstorms.
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When do hailstorms occur? A hailstorm is a thunderstorm that produces hail, a form of hard,  frozen precipitation. A supercell is the most powerful class of  thunderstorm on Earth, characterized by a … strong, rotating updraft.  Because of the strong updraft, supercells are the most likely kind  of storm to produce damaging hail.
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Severe Weather 101 A wall cloud is an isolated cloud lowering attached to the rain-free base of the thunderstorm. The wall cloud is usually to the rear of the visible precipitation area. A condensation funnel is made up of water droplets and extends downward from the base of the thunderstorm.
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Severe Weather 101 A gust front is the leading edge of rain-cooled air that clashes with warmer thunderstorm inflow. Gust fronts are characterized by a wind shift, temperature drop, and gusty winds out ahead of a thunderstorm. Sometimes the winds push up air above them, forming a shelf cloud or detached roll cloud.
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- 1 Large thunderstorms with high cloud tops formed from hot moist rising air.  Upper level cold air with a large temperature contrast between the upper level air and the rising moist air.
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- The air mass thunderstorm is a common and usually non severe phenomenon that forms away from frontal systems or other synoptic-scale disturbances. They form where moist and unstable conditions exist in the atmosphere. Air mass thunderstorms are usually produced in areas of very little vertical shear.As a result, the threat for severe is small. When they do reach severe limits, the thunderstorms may produce brief high winds or hail which develop because of high instability. These storms are know as pulse severe storms.s wind shear organizes the convection, new thunderstorms form as a result of parent thunderstorm outflows converging with warm, moist inflow creating new updrafts. Multicell storms can form in a line known as a squall line, where continuous updrafts form along the leading edge of the outflow, or gust front.
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Thunderstorm Formation Thunderstorm Formation. Most thunderstorms form by a cycle that has three stages: the cumulus stage, mature stage, and dissipating stage. Cumulus Stage. The sun heats the Earth's surface during the day. The heat on the surface and warms the air around it.
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Thunderstorm Lightning Tornadoes and Hurricane 1 Distribution: Worldwide, except Antarctica; common in the tropics. 2  Height: Anywhere within the height range of a cumulonimbus cloud. 3  Cause: Electrical discharge between one thundercloud and another, or within a single thundercloud. 4  Associated Weather: Heavy rain or hail, strong winds from associated thundercloud.
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Cumulonimbus cloud Cumulonimbus, from the Latin cumulus (heap) and nimbus (rainstorm, storm cloud), is a dense towering vertical cloud associated with thunderstorms and atmospheric instability, forming from water vapor carried by powerful upward air currents.he cumulonimbus base may extend several miles across and occupy low to middle altitudes-formed at altitude from approximately 200 to 4,000 m (700 to 10,000 ft).
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What causes a thunderstorm? Thunderstorms result from the rapid upward movement of warm, moist air, sometimes along a front. As the warm, moist air moves upward, it cools, condenses, and forms a cumulonimbus cloud that can reach heights of over 20 kilometres (12 mi).
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Nimbus, Cumulonimbus, Nimbostratus, and Fog Cumulonimbus clouds are the “thunderheads” that can be seen on a warm summer day and can bring strong winds, hail, and rain.
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Precipitation types Since cold air is more dense, the cold air mass pushes the warm air mass up pretty quickly. If there's a lot of moisture in the air, large cumulus or cumulonimbus clouds can form and thunderstorms can happen. For an animation on Weather Fronts click here.
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Thunderstorms A forming thunderstorm in Swifts Creek, Victoria. Thunderstorms are violent weather systems that can produce hail, heavy rain, thunder, lightning, microbursts,sometimes tornadoes and destructive winds.
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Atmospheric convection Atmospheric convection is the result of a parcel-environment instability, or temperature difference, layer in the atmosphere. Different lapse rates within dry and moist air lead to instability.ixing of air during the day which expands the height of the planetary boundary layer leads to increased winds, cumulus cloud development, and decreased surface dew points. Moist convection leads to thunderstorm development, which is often responsible for severe weather throughout the world.
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Convection cell Life Cycle of a Thunderstorm. Warm air has a lower density than cool air, so warm air rises within cooler air, similar to hot air balloons. Clouds form as warm air carrying moisture rises within cooler air. As the warm air rises, it cools. The moist water vapor begins to condense.
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Cumulonimbus cloud From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Cumulonimbus, from the Latin cumulus (heap) and nimbus (rainstorm, storm cloud), is a dense towering vertical cloud associated with thunderstorms and atmospheric instability, forming from water vapor carried by powerful upward air currents.
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- Frontal rain occurs when two air masses meet. When a warm air mass meets a cold air mass, they don't mix as they have different densities (a bit like oil and water). Instead, the warm less dense air is pushed up over the cold dense air creating the 'front'.
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Thunderstorm Stronger thunderstorm cells are capable of producing tornadoes and waterspouts. There are four types of thunderstorms: single-cell, multicell cluster, multicell lines, and supercells. Supercell thunderstorms are the strongest and the most associated with severe weather phenomena. Mesoscale convective systems formed by favorable vertical wind shear within the tropics and subtropics are responsible for the development of hurricanes.
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- The Hadley cell, named after George Hadley, is a tropical atmospheric circulation which features rising motion near the equator, poleward flow 10–15 kilometers above the surface, descending motion in the subtropics, and equatorward flow near the surface.echanism [edit]. The major driving force of atmospheric circulation is solar heating, which on average is largest near the equator and smallest at the poles.
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Academy Award Records Most awards won by a single film. Ben-Hur, Titanic, and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King each won a total of 11 Academy Awards. Most awards won by a man. Walt Disney won 22 Oscars in his lifetime. Disney also holds the record for the “most nominations for a person” with a whopping total of 59 nominations! Most awards won by a woman. Edith Head won eight Oscars, all for Costume Design. Some of her notable wins were for Audrey Hepburn classics such as Roman Holiday in 1954 and Sabrina in 1955.
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Thunderstorm A thunderstorm, also known as an electrical storm, lightning storm, or thundershower, is a storm characterized by the presence of lightning and its acoustic effect on the Earth's atmosphere, known as thunder. Thunderstorms occur in association with a type of cloud known as a cumulonimbus. They are usually accompanied by strong winds, heavy rain, and sometimes snow, sleet, hail, or, in contrast, no precipitation at all. Thunderstorms may line up in a series or become a rainband, known as a squall line.
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Atmospheric convection Atmospheric convection. Atmospheric convection is the result of a parcel-environment instability, or temperature difference, layer in the atmosphere. Different lapse rates within dry and moist air lead to instability. Mixing of air during the day which expands the height of the planetary boundary layer leads to increased winds, cumulus cloud development, and decreased surface dew points. Moist convection leads to thunderstorm development, which is often responsible for severe weather throughout the world. Special threa
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- Cumulonimbus - A dense and vertically developed cloud that produces thunderstorms. The cloud can bring heavy showers, hail, lightning, high winds and sometimes tornadoes. Cumulus Clouds - Fluffy, mid-level clouds that develop in towering shapes and signal fair weather. Cumulus clouds are a principle cloud type.
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Thunderstorm Thunderstorms develop by the same process that forms cumulus clouds, the puffy clouds of summer skies. These clouds form when a humid air mass (air with an abundance of water vapor) near the surface rises on currents of air called updrafts. As the air mass rises through the atmosphere it expands and cools.
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Severe Weather 101 Thunderstorm Types. Often called “popcorn” convection, single-cell thunderstorms are small, brief, weak storms that grow and die within an hour or so. They are typically driven by heating on a summer afternoon.Single-cell storms may produce brief heavy rain and lightning. squall line. [+]. A multi-cell storm is a common, garden-variety thunderstorm in which new updrafts form along the leading edge of rain-cooled air (the gust front).