Weather photos of the day (and tornado videos!)

// June 18th, 2009 // weather

Seems like these weather photo posts have been fun for some of you to check out every day or two, so I’ll keep going with them. I totally love finding them and sharing them, so it’s no skin off my back!

Some crazy weather in the Plains States the last few days. Here are some weather shots, plus a special video from CNN from a stormchaser freaking out about this massive tornado AND another video from TornadoVideos.net, the site I frequent most these days.

This is a pretty bad tornado. As you see the building rip apart, it kind of looks like those scenes from Twister. For me personally, if I was next to a tornado that bad, I’d be driving in the OPPOSITE direction.

Listen for the guy telling us all the date, time and year of the video. I think at that point, he figured he was probably about to die *grin*

(thanks to Melanie for the link to this)

I think the above tornado may have been connected to this one below, but I’m not sure. It’s from Central Nebraska yesterday, same as the above. Anyways, it’s awesome and you can see the difference between stormchasers…the one above is freaking out, the ones below are yelling, but totally under control.

These two photos are from Rapid City, South Dakota. I’ve personally never seen a “supercell” (as they call it) like this…they are just so scary looking.

And holy crap, this next one…a “mesocyclone”, meaning it is a kind of rotating vortex within a storm system. Tornadoes form from these very often. Whatever it means, it’s downright creepy looking.