Amazing Cloud over Pulaski, TN, last night

[kkat55]

This photo shows an amazing cloud that was over Pulaski, TN, last night. The picture was posted on a local radio station's website. A lady in our office (the one who saw it) looked it up and found out that it is called an "anvil" cloud. I think it is pretty amazing! (Everyone who saw it thought it looked like the UFO in "Independence Day" or a mushroom cloud from an atomic bomb.)



You can find the link here: http://www.wksr.com/wksr.php?rfc=src/swapitem.php&id=62539

[Ralynda]

Re: Amazing Cloud over Pulaski, TN, last night

That's cool! Thanks for sharing Kat. I love clouds.

[presidentholmes]

Re: Amazing Cloud over Pulaski, TN, last night

Wow that's absolutely stunning.
Thanks for posting.

[Sheshy]

Re: Amazing Cloud over Pulaski, TN, last night

Very cool cloud, and a little scary looking!

[Lynsey]

Re: Amazing Cloud over Pulaski, TN, last night

That is beautiful, but I think it would have scared me a little bit at first, especially if it was in the direction of the Nuclear Power plant right up the road

[Atkid]

Re: Amazing Cloud over Pulaski, TN, last night

That is pretty but I think I would freak if I seen it hovering over my house.

[Heidi3]

Re: Amazing Cloud over Pulaski, TN, last night

that is amazing thanks so much for sharing that!!!

[Lisa M]

Re: Amazing Cloud over Pulaski, TN, last night

That is really awesome looking!

It almost looks like jellyfish...almost.

[kkat55]

Re: Amazing Cloud over Pulaski, TN, last night

I just got two more pictures. These were taking by Mary, a lady in our office, on her cell phone last night in her backyard. She just uploaded them to the computer. (After previewing this I see that they are big pictures -- I'll try and get my DH to reduce them for me when I get home.)

[Analog6]

Re: Amazing Cloud over Pulaski, TN, last night

A typical anvil cloud. They are usually accompanied by violent thunderstorms and hail. It is rare to see such a perfect one so you are lucky. I have a wodnerful laminated poster of an anvil cloud on my wall right in front of me! I'll try to find the link for it and post it.

Link to similar clouds here http://www.bom.gov.au/weather/nsw/se...spotter4.shtml

The Cloud Appreciation Society here http://cloudappreciationsociety.org/

[kkat55]

Re: Amazing Cloud over Pulaski, TN, last night

I went back and reduced the pictures so they should be easier to view, I hope.

[cristylp]

Re: Amazing Cloud over Pulaski, TN, last night

That's absolutely beautiful.

[boonie stomper]

Re: Amazing Cloud over Pulaski, TN, last night

That is so cool! The last (only) time I've seen a cloud like that, I was almost to the rocky summit of a mountain in the Appalachians. The thing was turning and moving fast, and getting very dense. We busted our tails racing back down the trails to the parking area, and about 3 minutes later, in the car driving down the rest of the mountain, we got pummulted with marble-sized hail. 5 minute later, it had all vanished.