| The family is scurrying for shelter while a towering funnel cloud advances relentlessly toward their home. |
| Then you see it for the first time, a nice formed funnel cloud coming down ready to rip, twist, and destroy anything. |
| This storm, incidentally, produced both a small funnel cloud and nickel-sized hail. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| A funnel cloud is formed by condensed water droplets when accompanied by a rotating column of wind. |
