We just learned that a tornado is a column of spinning air that is touching both the ground and the clouds.
If the air is spinning by the clouds so much that it makes a funnel shape,
but it is not touching the ground that is called a funnel cloud.
![funnel cloud](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b1/F5_tornado_funnel_cloud_Elie_Manitoba_2007.jpg/640px-F5_tornado_funnel_cloud_Elie_Manitoba_2007.jpg)
(from: wikipedia - funnel cloud)
Kid Facts - Blast from the past: Clouds