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Time lapse captures spectacular mammatus display over Oklahoma

06:46 PM
May 19, 2022

Mammatus clouds
Like you've never seen them before

The sky became overwhelmed by a dazzling display of mammatus clouds after a supercell thunderstorm brought baseball-size hail to a small town.

Severe thunderstorms swept across the Plains on Sunday, May 15, with over 200 storm reports of destructive hail, damaging winds, and tornadoes. However, once the storms settled, the sky filled with mammatus clouds.

Derived from the Latin word mamma, meaning udder or breast, these clouds form as warm saturated air sinks around the periphery of an intense thunderstorm. Learn more about these spectacular cloud formations here.

Weather & Radar USA editorial team
Federico Di Catarina
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