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When Hell Breaks Loose ... summer storm at harvest time in Strohgau / Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany

Close-range image of a landspout tornado, was captured by Jim Reed in western Kansas on May 8, 2008.

Infographic illustrates the impact of the May 22, 2011, tornado in Joplin, Missouri.

A rare cloud formation called a mammatus, where clouds take on a bubble-like shape, appeared in the skies above Regina, Saskatchewan in Canada following a thunderstorm on June 26 [2012 ?], Photo courtesy of Preston Smoke/CBC.CA (Linda)

After looking at a picture of a sky punch or sun hole (apparently formed when ‘Ice crystals form above the high-altitude cirro-cumulo-stratus clouds, then fall downward, punching a hole in the cloud cover’) by Terry Boswell on Facebook, I knew it couldn’t be the first time this ominous-looking phenomenon has been captured and preserved on the Internet. These pictures are evidence.

Caught on camera: The 30 metre high tornado of FIRE that whirled around Australian outback for terrifying 40 minutes Fire tornadoes occur when a column of warm, rising air contacts with - or creates - fire on the ground An astonished filmmaker is coming to grips with the moment he witnessed one of nature's rarest phenomenons - a tornado comprised entirely of fire- and lived to tell the tale. Chris Tangey had been out in Alice Springs, Australia, scouting locations for a new movie.

Hannibal Mo Tornado/Straight Line Winds May 2013

5 Tornado Safety Myths Debunked : Discovery News

NOAA Weather Radio Public Service Announcement (PSA) from 1987

Oldest known photograph of a tornado. 22 miles southwest of Howard, South Dakota.   August 28, 1884 Credit: NOAA’s National Weather Service (NWS) Collection [wea00206]

Double Rainbow all the way across the sky!

Cathedral of snow. #trees #photography | Via Flickr, photo credit: M. Braun

MAP: Only EF-5 tornado of 2013 was in Oklahoma; National Weather Service releases tornado report