Going through photos that I never got to earlier. This was of an upcoming storm in June of this year.
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Actually you are partly right there. The updraft does help to make the cloud taller. If it had made it to where the jet stream was it would have started to make an anvil shape towards the top. Thos are ominous to especially as they get bigger.