What type of clouds are these (pics)?

Question

We just moved to Southwest Oklahoma ... well we had a bad thunderstorm the other evening and I was just wondering what type of clouds these were, the pics were taken a few moments before the storm.

http://i288.photobucket.com/albums/ll186/army_wife_94e/storm4.jpg

http://i288.photobucket.com/albums/ll186/army_wife_94e/Picture031.jpg

Answer 1

I don't know what you would call those but really cool looking clouds

Answer 2

The 'hairy' clouds in the foreground are Nimbostratus clouds; the are the shaggy,  clouds that usually contain rain.

In Your pics, the hairy bottom is rain trying to fall, but evaporates before hitting the ground, and that is called 'Virga'

The smaller bits are just shards cut off by wind.

In the background is the anvil of the Cumulonimbus, or thunderhead.

A 'califlower' towering cloud is a cumulonimbus cloud in the developing stage.

When it develops a 'head' or anvil, it has apogeed and when You see lightning, it is in the mature stage.

Gary

Answer 3

idk but it looks like a koi fish =O thats awesome hahah maybe im just tired . but its not drugs i swear. anyway idk anything about clouds.

Answer 4

they r nimbus and or storm clouds anytime it is gray and rainy it is nimbus duh!!?!?!?

Answer 5

I know you are looking for answers, which I cannot give you, but I do want to comment on the beauty of nature you caught in your pictures. No matter if calm or deadly, mother nature can sure produce some awesome sights.

Answer 6

cumulus,cirrus and nimbus..i think..

Answer 7

They look like cumulus and stratus ......... good pictures.

Answer 8

Uhh.. storm clouds.

Answer 9

That landscape is familiar, as I grew up in Lawton.

The diffuse, shredded-looking clouds look like what are known as scud.  They tend to develop and move in the moist low level winds around showers and thunderstorms.  They are not dangerous.  I see a diffuse looking thunderstorm in the background.  I also see some virga above those scud clouds.

Answer 10

These are the beginnings of a thunder cloud

Answer 11

scary.

tornade may come, be careful!!

Unusual clouds

Answer 12

i have no idea but that scenery is b-e-a-utiful. i wish i lived in Oklahoma so i could see a sky like that.

Answer 13

the kind that fly around, and attack at random.

Answer 14

storm clouds

Answer 15

on the first one, the small dark in the foreground is just a stray cirrus, but the white anvil shaped one in the back is a classically shaped cumulonimbus cloud, also known as a thunderhead. same in the second pic