Inflow Bands

INFLOW BANDS (or Feeder Bands)
Bands of low clouds, arranged parallel to the low-level winds and moving into or toward a thunderstorm. They may indicate the strength of the inflow of moist air into the storm, and, hence, its potential severity.

Therefore, a mesocyclone should not be considered a visually-observable phenomenon (although visual evidence of rotation, such as curved inflow bands, may imply the presence of a mesocyclone)MesoclimateThe climate of a small area of the earth's ...

The characteristic inflow bands are present in front of a translucent, anvil-born precipitation area on the extreme right.

Lines or bands of low-level clouds that move (feed) into the updraft region of a thunderstorm, usually from the north through east (i.e., parallel to the inflow). Same as inflow bands.

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Browse Related Terms: Beaver('s) Tail, Billow Cloud, Feeder Bands, Inflow Bands, Inflow Stinger, Morning Glory, Stratocumulus, T Rolls, Transverse Bands, Transverse Rolls ...

Same as inflow bands. This term also is used in tropical meteorology to describe spiral-shaped bands of convection surrounding, and moving toward, the center of a tropical cyclone.FEMAFederal Emergency Management Agency.

See also: Supercell, Storm, Tornado, Cloud, Precipitation