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Highest cloud tops you have seen or heard of
« on: June 07, 2012, 03:36:16 PM »
What is the highest cloud top you've ever seen or heard about..... I saw in another weather forum that a radar operator at Charleston, SC once measured a 72,000 foot cloud top on the '57 back in August of '85 or '86.
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