rapidly. A particularly tall hot tower rose above Hurricane Bonnie in August 1998, as the storm intensified before striking North Carolina. See also List of cloud types Pileus Overshooting top Rapid intensification References Bibliography External links Hurricane Multimedia Gallery – a hurricane multimedia page. UCAR slides: "Hot Towers and Hurricanes: Early Observations, Theories and Models" Weather hazards Tropical cyclone meteorology Articles containing video clips Cloud and fog physics