Tornado

The Best Tornado Photos
Pick Your Favorite Tornado Photo & Video
This lens is a "Photo Phight" and Youtube video throwdown featuring tornado pictures and video chosen after poring over hundreds of images on Flickr. Take a look and choose your favorites! Image courtesy of FlorGuedes on Flickr.

The Science of Tornadoes, Funnel Clouds, Twisters, Cyclones
The Science of Tornadoes
The name 'tornado' comes from the Spanish word 'tronada'. The other common names for tornadoes are: twister, funnel, or funnel cloud, and cyclone. This is about the different types tornadoes and how they occur, plus other helpful information.

storm chasing
Only the Brave (with good car insurance)
Storm Chasing is a hobby, but a dangerous one and having a show on the Discovery Channel is growing this hobby. I have always been fascinated by the weather and took meteorology, aviation meteorology and climatology courses in college and did get to take part in a professional storm chase once. I also helped work on Vortex 1 data long ago but luckily Vortex 2 happened this year. There were reports amateur storm chasers kind of got in the way of the researchers.