The Hailstorm of July 14, I&Q4- 
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objects caught up from the ground, but they acquired addi¬ 
tional momentum by the height from which they had 
previously fallen 
In describing the s^prm one of the daily papers, speak¬ 
ing of the storm-cloud as it reached the city, said: “This 
cloud was evidently met by one from the east.” This is 
undoubtedly an error, resulting from confounding some of 
the detached clouds in front of the main mass—possibly 
the “squall cloud” — with another storm cloud. In all 
thunderstorms there' is a forerunner of elevated cirro-stratus 
cloud, sometimes festooned beneath, often extending a great 
distance from the body of the storm. Besides this there 
usually form in front of the main body, and at a lower 
level, detached clouds which increase considerably in size 
before being overtaken by, and coalescing with, the storm- 
cloud. It was probably a mass of such clouds which the 
newspaper reporter took for another storm cloud coming 
from the eastward. 
