Amazing Cumulonimbus Storm Clouds - El Reno, Oklahoma - 2024.04.30

April 2024 has been a record month for tornadoes in Oklahoma. April 2024 has been the second highest on record for tornadoes. The only April that has had more tornadoes than this past month was in 2011. And with breaking records and it being peak tornado season also comes severe weather and thunderstorms.
This thunderstorm was watched off in the distance as it went around the town I was in. And the following cloud formations were amazing to watch.
CUMULONIMBUS CLOUD
(from Latin cumulus 'swell', and nimbus 'cloud') is a dense, towering vertical cloud,[1] typically forming from water vapor condensing in the lower troposphere that builds upward carried by powerful buoyant air currents. Above the lower portions of the cumulonimbus the water vapor becomes ice crystals, such as snow and graupel, the interaction of which can lead to hail and to lightning formation, respectively. When occurring as a thunderstorm these clouds may be referred to as thunderheads. Cumulonimbus can form alone, in clusters, or along squall lines. These clouds are capable of producing lightning and other dangerous severe weather, such as tornadoes, hazardous winds, and large hailstones. Cumulonimbus progress from overdeveloped cumulus congestus clouds and may further develop as part of a supercell.
MAMMATUS CLOUD
It is also known as also known as the mammatocumulus meaning mammary cloud. These cloud formation usually was seen after the thunderstorm has been passed. It is like a pattern of pouches hanging underneath the base of a cloud which looks beautiful. The cloud formation looks beautiful when sunlight is reflected through them. These formations are one of the long-lived if the sinking air contains large drops and snow crystals because the larger parts of clouds will require greater amounts of energy for evaporation and over the time droplets of clouds will evaporate and certainly the mammatus clouds will disappear. The formation looks like pouch-like cloud structures and one of the finest examples of clouds in sinking air. According to studies, the clouds are ominous in appearance because they are harmless and does not have any relation with the tornados.
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