With every storm I experience, comes something new, and on this particular occasion there really was something new. I funnel cloud decided to form from the base of a super cell, at about the distance of an American Football field away from me, perhaps a little closer. This thing just came out of the clouds and started heading down.
I can not describe fully the feeling I had when I saw this. The emotions were mixed, excitement and fear, for in my mind I was about to get the shot I was longing for, a Tornado, I was just not expecting it to form a few hundred yards away from me. With my camera ready, I snapped a few shots of this threatening cloud dropping from the heavens.
Unfortunately, or should I say thank fully, I'm not sure, it was not to be. There was not enough rotation in the atmosphere and it dissipated after about a minute or so. There were other people watching, from their cars, all expectantly waiting the formation of a Tornado.
No matter, the storm was still a sight to behold and I managed to shoot some great photographs.
Below is a small selection of those images, click any of the pictures to be taken to my Flickr to see all of them.
above: the funnel
3 comments:
Oh my goodness... that was almost a tornado! Amazing pictures! Love those crazy clouds!
Your photos are incredible Ian. Without being their, your photos seem as good as. Brilliant
awesome pictures ian! i love the one of the funnel forming!
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