What is "funnel clouds"

Usage examples of "funnel clouds".

And then those four funnel clouds all came together and twisted violently, bending underneath the woven mat they sat upon and lifting it into the air.

Storm-produced funnel clouds that create winds over one hundred sixty kilometers per hour and destroy almost everything in their path.

Unfortunately, the funnel clouds also hurtled some of it back at Questor.

Closer, much closer, hanging from the river of black cloud flowing above me, curled a dozen or more tornadoes, their funnel clouds striking toward me like scorpion tails.

An unhealthy yellow light illumined the sky, and gray funnel clouds could be seen over the mainland.

The caull shrieked with such fury that the sound matched the howl of the worst storm Bek had ever witnessed, of hurricane winds tearing past windows and walls, of funnel clouds ripping at the earth.

Dust devils were spinning up everywhere, miniature tornadoes, funnel clouds spewing Just and debris up into the air.