Editing Funnel cloud (section)

{{Short description|Funnel-shaped cloud not touching the ground}}
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[[File:Tornado skips and hops across the central Minnesota.jpg|right|thumb|A funnel cloud across the central Minnesota landscape as it lifted momentarily narrowly missing this rural farmstead.]]
[[File:F5 tornado funnel cloud Elie Manitoba 2007.jpg|300px|right|thumb|A needle-like funnel cloud, which may have been a tornadic circulation but was not yet visible as such and which did later develop to become an [[Fujita scale|F5]] [[2007 Elie tornado|tornado]], near [[Elie, Manitoba]]]]
A '''funnel cloud''' is a [[funnel]]-shaped [[cloud]] of condensed water droplets, associated with a rotating column of wind and extending from the base of a cloud (usually a [[cumulonimbus cloud|cumulonimbus]] or [[Cumulus congestus cloud|towering]] [[cumulus cloud]]) but not reaching the ground or a water surface.<ref name="GoM">{{cite book |last = Glickman |first = Todd S. |title = Glossary of Meteorology |publisher = American Meteorological Society |edition = 2nd |date = 2000 |location = Boston 
|url = http://glossary.ametsoc.org/wiki/Funnel_cloud |isbn = 978-1878220349 }}</ref> A funnel cloud is usually visible as a cone-shaped or needle like protuberance from the main [[cloud base]]. Funnel clouds form most frequently in association with [[supercell]] [[thunderstorm]]s, and are often, but not always, a visual precursor to [[tornado]]es. Funnel clouds are visual phenomena, but these are not the [[vortex]] of [[wind]] itself.<ref name="NWS Glossary">{{cite web |url = https://forecast.weather.gov/glossary.php?word=FUNNEL%20CLOUD |title = Funnel cloud |website = National Weather Service Glossary  |publisher = NOAA National Weather Service |access-date = 2019-12-17  }}</ref>