We had a round of severe weather come through Central North Carolina this afternoon, and I saw a phenomenon I'd never seen before. What I saw was called a pileus cloud. This is a cloud that sort of looks like a cap over another cloud, and it occurs when warm, moist air rises so fast in a thunderstorm's updraft that it pushes against the cooler, drier air above the storm. When the two air masses meet, it created a thin, cap-like cloud over the storm's cumulonimbus.
Here are a few of the pics I took:
= Tornado Warning
= Severe T'storm Warning
= Flash Flood Warning
