Thunderstorms Are Exhilarating!

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Like this....



I was at my bosses house when they showed this storm on radar. It was nasty looking on the TV, but in this picture it looks pretty benign.



A few minutes later I spied this off to the south west, about the same time a tornado warning was issued for where I was. Exposure time on this picture was 1 second with 200 speed film through a 150mm f/4 zoom lens, it was a lot darker out than it looks



So I drove south about 10 miles or so to see what the fuss was, this is what I ran into. You classic rotating supercell thunderstorm



Starting to spin really fast, like a top.



Really getting intense now. Rain then started to wrap itself around the meso as the storm went high precip. About five minutes after this picture, it produced a tornado that was on the ground for 5 miles and destroyed a bunch of houses.



Fifteen miles southeast of the above picture after the tornado and the storm was starting to weaken as it moved out over lake michigan.