MAMMATUS CLOUD FORMATIONS
| Definition Mammatus Clouds - Rounded, smooth, sack-like protrusions hanging from the underside of a cloud (usually a thunderstorm anvil). Mammatus clouds often accompany severe thunderstorms, but do not produce severe weather; they may accompany non-severe storms as well. See photos below of some that storm chasers have seen while chasing. Remember, mammatus clouds do not guarantee a storm is tornadic, but usually are seen when a storm does produce a tornado. This is one cloud you will always be looking for when chasing sever weather. |
 Greeley Colorado by Tornado Tim
Chase Behee took these photos of mammatus
clouds outside of Dodge City, Kansas on or about April 20, 2005...There were a
couple of tornado warnings for Clark and Meade counties at approximately the
same time he took the pics, but I am not too sure if any tornados actually
touched down with these.
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