Prior to severe thunderstorms in Cumberland and Sampson counties Sunday evening, some of you saw a unique cloud formation.

Molecular clouds are composed of gas and dust and serve a vital purpose in star formation. Eos, a crescent-shaped gas cloud, ...

Still embedded in its parent cloud ... the angel. A thick, red lane of dust separates the regions of superhot gas and consists of cooler, dark material that gives S106 a unique hourglass shape.

The area where the funnel cloud was spotted is not a stranger to such events. The last tornado warning issued for Oregon was close by, between Mount Angel and Molalla on February 24.