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tuba Commonly called a funnel cloud, pendant cloud, or tornado cloud. In meteorology, a cloud column, inverted cloud cone, or pendant from a cloud base. This supplementary feature occurs mostly with cumulus and cumulonimbus; when it reaches the earth's surface it constitutes the cloudy manifestation of an intense vortex, namely a tornado or waterspout.

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