26 Photos of Supercells, Mammatus Clouds, and Other Incredible Weather Events

Carly Tennes Published 05/29/2024 in ftw

Despite what we may have learned in our first-grade science classes, weather is more than just rain or shine, our environment undergoing some seriously crazy things on the daily.

Though fires and tornados may be most commonly seen as plots of various Chicago-based TV franchises and a now-plural movie series (looking at you, Twisters), did you know they can come together to create the nightmare-inducing fire tornado?

Similarly, while lightning may seldom strike twice in the same spot, it seemingly happens up to hundreds of times per year in Venezuela’s Catatumbo River, in a phenomenon known as “Catatumbo lightning?”

From mammatus clouds to supercells and more, here are 26 of the most insane weather events caught on camera.

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A Minnesota woman recently captured a cloud formation that appeared to look like an ocean in the sky
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Mammatus clouds Fishers, Indiana. 45-60 mins after hail and a tornado cell later down wind.
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This phenomenal image is a stack of 32 shots taken over 40 minutes during a lightning storm in Kuala Lampur, Malaysia. Photo by: instagram.com/depth_of_fendy
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Storm just missed my hay field Alberta, Canada
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Twister at Wyoming , USA
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60,000' high supercell in west Texas, gearing up to spawn a tornado and hailstorm
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Crepuscular ray and lightning over Thessaloniki, Greece.
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Texas, May 17 2021; credit to stormchaser Laura Rowe.
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Low lying clouds in the Texas Panhandle
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Supercell near Leoti, Kansas. 05/26/20 taken by @markokorosecnet
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This shot is from McCook, Nebraska in May of 2019.
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Wicked severe thunderstorm front over Minneapolis, MN
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A sudden storm came rolling in. It was hailing dimes 5 minutes later. (Washington state)
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Absolute unit of a storm east of Queensland, Australia
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From a storm over Edmonton Canada
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Red sprites from a storm over the Aegean, Greece, 4/11/2023
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1.
A Minnesota woman recently captured a cloud formation that appeared to look like an ocean in the sky
2.
Mammatus clouds Fishers, Indiana. 45-60 mins after hail and a tornado cell later down wind.
3.
This phenomenal image is a stack of 32 shots taken over 40 minutes during a lightning storm in Kuala Lampur, Malaysia. Photo by: instagram.com/depth_of_fendy
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Storm just missed my hay field Alberta, Canada
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Twister at Wyoming , USA
8.
60,000' high supercell in west Texas, gearing up to spawn a tornado and hailstorm
9.
Crepuscular ray and lightning over Thessaloniki, Greece.
10.
Texas, May 17 2021; credit to stormchaser Laura Rowe.
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Low lying clouds in the Texas Panhandle
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Supercell near Leoti, Kansas. 05/26/20 taken by @markokorosecnet
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This shot is from McCook, Nebraska in May of 2019.
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Wicked severe thunderstorm front over Minneapolis, MN
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A sudden storm came rolling in. It was hailing dimes 5 minutes later. (Washington state)
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Absolute unit of a storm east of Queensland, Australia
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From a storm over Edmonton Canada
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Red sprites from a storm over the Aegean, Greece, 4/11/2023
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