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Scud StogieBack in our NSSL field project days in 1989, Rich Thompson coined the term "Scud Cigar," a.k.a. Scud Stogie, for these kinds of elongated, often rather smooth and cigar-like, low-level cloud masses. [It seemed as if outflow was all we saw storms produce that year, so we got good at watching it and micknaming its effects.] A specialized but common variety of fractocumulus, stogies form in an area of cold outflow -- usually on the back side of an outflow-dominant multicell, supercell or squall line. 29 SSW Ft. Sumner NM (5 Jun 3) looking NNW |
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