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====Overshooting top==== {{main|Overshooting top}} This "dome" feature appears above the strongest updraft location on the anvil of the storm. It is a result of an updraft powerful enough to break through the upper levels of the troposphere into the lower [[stratosphere]].<ref>{{cite journal|last1= Shenk|first1= W. E.|date= 1974|title= Cloud top height variability of strong convective cells|journal= [[Journal of Applied Meteorology]]|volume = 13|issue= 8|pages= 918{{ndash}}922| doi=10.1175/1520-0450(1974)013<0917:cthvos>2.0.co;2 |bibcode = 1974JApMe..13..917S |doi-access= free}}</ref><ref name="Overshooting Tops">{{cite web|url=https://www.eumetsat.int/website/home/Data/Training/TrainingLibrary/DAT_2042700.html|title=Overshooting Tops β Satellite-Based Detection Methods|publisher=[[EUMETSAT]]|date=9 June 2011|access-date=10 May 2019|archive-date=10 May 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190510090501/https://www.eumetsat.int/website/home/Data/Training/TrainingLibrary/DAT_2042700.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> An observer at ground level and close to the storm may be unable to see the overshooting top because the anvil blocks the sight of this feature. The overshooting is visible from satellite images as a "bubbling" amidst the otherwise smooth upper surface of the anvil cloud.
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