Image List Chapter
14 - Thunderstorms and Tornados
PHENOMENON
IMAGES
Air
-Mass Thunderstor
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A Mature Air-Mass Thunderstorm
Anvil Clouds
Anvil Cloud
Another Anvil
Cumulonimbus over Orkneys with Remnant Anvil
Overshooting
Overshooting Anvil
Severe Thunderstorms
A Supercell Thunderstorm Cloud Over Montana
S
helf Cloud in Maryland
Roll Cloud over Missouri
Roll Cloud Versus Shelf Cloud
Gust Front Leading Shelf Cloud in Kansas
Approaching Texas Gust Front during the Dust Bowl of 1935
Utah Gust Front
Cloudburst Result near Moab
Snowy Cloudburst
Mesoscale Convective Complex over Missouri
Wet Microburst
Floods
Buckskin Gulch
Big Thompson Canyon, Colorado
News Story (7/31/76, 145 deaths)
Rescue Worker
The Great Connecticut River Flood of 1936: Photo Gallery
Great Mississippi River Flood of 1927
Lightning
Lightning
Lightning over the Blue Mountains
Evening Lightning over Salt Lake Valley
Lightning Striking the Eiffel Tower (1902 Photo)
Lightning and Moonset over the Gulf of Mexico
Lightning in Lindon
Lightning & Rainbow near Sedona, AZ
Cloud-to-Cloud Discharge
Ground-to-Cloud Discharge
Lightning Bolt with Numerous Dart Leaders
Ribbon Lightning
Bead Lightning
Sheet Lightning
Sheet Lightning over Florida
Ball Lightning?
Mixed Lightning
Oklahoma-Style Lightning!
Lightning in the Ash Cloud of a Volcanic Eruption
Night Lightning on Jupiter
Fulgerite
Lightning Rod
Mt. Timpanogos Summit Shelter
St. Elmo's Fire
Cows Near a Fence after a Lightning Storm
Recently Discovered Phenomena
Red Sprite & Blue Jet
Red Sprites (movie)
Gigantic Jets (movie)
Tornados
Development
Mesocyclone Near Lubbock Texas - June 1995
Texas Mesocyclone - May 2001
Wall Cloud beneath a Supercell Cumulonimbus
Forming Tornado in Kansas
Developing Kansas Tornado - May 2002
Kansas Tornado - May 2002
Small Town Excitement
Tornado near Duchesne
A Weakening Tornado
Tornado with Visible Suction Vortices
Examples (rated using Fujita Scale)
Oldest Known Tornado Photo
(August 28, 1884, near Howard, South Dakota)
National Weather Service Collection of Utah Tornado Images
Tornado Approaches Downtown Salt Lake City
An F3 Tornado (note flying debris)
An F4 Nebraska Tornado
An F5 Maryland Tornado (strongest in their history) - April 28,2002
Damage
Tornado Damage in Moore, Oklahoma - May 3, 2003
Video
Tornado Camera
Video of inside a Tornado
Waterspouts
Waterspouts Associated with Hurricane Lili
Lake Erie Waterspout
Waterspout over Great Salt Lake
Fair-Weather Waterspout in the Florida Keys