A friend of mine sent this description and URL showing incredible cloud formations in Nebraska. I've blocked out identifying information for privacy.
Jxxx Oxxxx works for the Dxxxxxx-xxxxxxx Co. in Hastings, Nebraska, and lives by Heartwell Park next to Hastings College. The other night, probably just after the big storm hit, he took these photos and sent them to UNL which, then, posted them to the following URL. The stadium lights are at the Hastings College stadium just east of his home.
The clouds are called Mammatus clouds and there's a link on this URL that tells about them. They do not precede a tornado, or foretell a storm, but are formed when the air is already saturated with rain droplets and/or ice
stals and begins to sink. The worst of the storm is usually over when these kind of clouds are seen. They are quite
rare, but really beautiful.
Mammatus clouds
Jxxx Oxxxx works for the Dxxxxxx-xxxxxxx Co. in Hastings, Nebraska, and lives by Heartwell Park next to Hastings College. The other night, probably just after the big storm hit, he took these photos and sent them to UNL which, then, posted them to the following URL. The stadium lights are at the Hastings College stadium just east of his home.
The clouds are called Mammatus clouds and there's a link on this URL that tells about them. They do not precede a tornado, or foretell a storm, but are formed when the air is already saturated with rain droplets and/or ice
stals and begins to sink. The worst of the storm is usually over when these kind of clouds are seen. They are quite rare, but really beautiful.
Mammatus clouds
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