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What is a funnel cloud?

What is a funnel cloud? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (meteorology) A tapering cloud descending from a larger storm cloud, indicating the presence of an intense vortex. A tornado is a funnel cloud which reaches the ground.
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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.
Then you see it for the first time, a nice formed funnel cloud coming down ready to rip, twist, and destroy anything.
The family is scurrying for shelter while a towering funnel cloud advances relentlessly toward their home.
A funnel cloud is formed by condensed water droplets when accompanied by a rotating column of wind.
This storm, incidentally, produced both a small funnel cloud and nickel-sized hail.
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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