| A funnel cloud is formed by condensed water droplets when accompanied by a rotating column of wind. |
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| This storm, incidentally, produced both a small funnel cloud and nickel-sized hail. |
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| The family is scurrying for shelter while a towering funnel cloud advances relentlessly toward their home. |
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| Then you see it for the first time, a nice formed funnel cloud coming down ready to rip, twist, and destroy anything. |
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| So when she encountered her first funnel cloud in the midst of a bike ride in 1998, the professional athlete wasn't content ducking into a ditch. |
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| I was twelve and I rode on the back of a big boy's bicycle flat into a funnel cloud that picked us up and threw us clean into the ditch. |
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| Just like a funnel cloud, the clouds were moving quickly in a circular pattern around the entire city while the thunder continued to roar loudly. |
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| Forecaster Chris Rees, from PA Weather, said it sounded as though a funnel cloud or a mini tornado had hit the town. |
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| Another funnel cloud, this one larger, and more powerful, heading towards me, Josh, and the kid. |
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| On Friday, June 9, several residents spotted a funnel cloud forming northwest of Fairview. |
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| Environment Canada was criticized for issuing a tornado warning only after someone reported seeing a funnel cloud touch down. |
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| A light gray funnel cloud was extending down, at a rate of about twenty feet a second. |
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| The twister or funnel cloud was spotted at around 4pm yesterday as a torrential downpour rained on the town. |
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| The funnel cloud associated with most tornadoes results from moisture condensing out of humid air as the vortex accelerates and the air pressure inside drops. |
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| The mean diameter of the funnel cloud is about 100 m, the mean track length is several kilometres. |
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| Thirty-three years ago, a misty funnel cloud opened up over Antarctica. |
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| Diane had picked up Shannon from school just before the twister touched down in a park a block away and she had vainly tried to outrun the howling funnel cloud. |
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| Moderate to heavy thunderstorms are not uncommon and, on occasion, a tornado or funnel cloud will be reported in the Prince George area. |
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| The soldiers looked up and watched a large funnel cloud appear in the sky. |
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| The weather we have seen over the last few days is conducive to a tornado, or a funnel cloud as we call them, and we had one near Halton on Monday as well. |
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| A funnel cloud at the rear base of a thundercloud, often behind a curtain of heavy rain or hail. |
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| Suddenly, ahead was a black funnel cloud heading towards my car. |
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| If the cloud does not reach the ground, it is called a funnel cloud. |
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| A large storage shed flew in on the funnel cloud and landed next door. |
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| Typically, a strong tornado has a broad, columnar funnel cloud. |
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| If a visible funnel cloud forms, it will occur within the core region. |
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| The funnel cloud usually outlines only the innermost core. |
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