My luck with tornado photos used to be worse than my luck with tornadoes themselves. Example? Saw (and videotaped) 10 tornadoes in 3 straight chases in 1991, photographing 7 of them -- but one roll of film came back way overexposed; the other, blurred and overexposed. The rolls without tornadoes were fine -- of course. I have more pictures than I care to admit of distant and/or low-contrast tornadoes. There are a few of those here for identification purposes; after all, few tornadoes are "perfect specimens". Still, during stretches of the late 1990s, mid 2000s and early 2000-teens, my fortunes with photogenic tornadoes finally improved.
 Sunlit Funnel Tip |
 Sargent Tornado Underway |
 "Elephant Trunk" Tornado |
 Funnels Aplenty |
 Funnels Away |
 The Caged Bear |
 Rain-wrapped Tornado |
 More Rain-wrapped Tornado |
 Tornadic Mini-supercell |
 Wind Farm Tornado: |
 Wind Farm Tornado: |
 Wind Farm Tornado: |
 Wind Farm Tornado: |
 Wind Farm Tornado: |
 Vortex Within |
 Across State Line |
 Tornadic Marionette |
 LeFors Wall Cloud & Tornado |
 Backbuilder |
 Violent Wedge approaching |
 Off 19 |
 Kansas High Plains Tornado |
 Slapout Early |
 Cone in Rain |  Funnel Tip |
 Slapout Late |
 Custer City Spinup |
 Custer City Spindown |
 Multivortex in |
 Dust Tube Spout |
 No Funnel |
 Fuzzy Cone |
 McClellan Lake TX Tornado |
 Scorpion Tail Tornado |
 Mature |
 Stromsburg |
 Stromsburg Rope-out |
 Spencer SD Tornado |
 Cold-core Tornado |
 Capulin Landspout |
 Scorpion Stinger Tornado |
 Dragging a Dust Plume |
 Early Aurora Tornado |
 Churning Closer |
 Menacing Aurora |
 Patricia Tornado |
 Vigo Vigor |
 Lowering Funnel |
 Tornado behind Rain |
 Two Funnels |
 Stern Chase Surprise |
 Hill City Tornado |
 Classic Oklahoma Tornado |
 Tornado with |
 Tornado through the Rain |
 Interstate in Danger |
 Hampton Tornado |
 Early St. Peter Vortex |
 True Tornado Tail Tale |
 St. Peter Tornado Zoom |
 Pleasant Little Tornado |
 Scuddy Rope-out |
 Parting Kiss |
 Look, BeHIND You! |
 Space Ship Storm |
 Satellite Tornado |
 Chugwater Sequence 1 |
 Chugwater Sequence 2 |
 Chugwater Sequence 3 |
 Chugwater Sequence 4 |
 Chugwater Sequence 5 |
 Chugwater Sequence 6 |
 Chugwater Sequence 7 |
 Chugwater Sequence 8 |
 Colorado Landspout |
 Tilted Cone |
 Deuel Vortex |
 Stovepipe Tornado |
 Sky Worm |
 Violent El Reno/ |
 EF5 Wedge with |
 Distant Fat One |
 Bradshaw: Cone |
 Bradshaw: Big Picture |
 Caution: Tornado Crossing |
 Classic Kansas Tornado |
 Mature Stockton Tornado |
 Stockton Tornado Zoom |
 The Stockton Occlusion |
 Not a Tornado! |
Elsewhere in SkyPix:
Night Lightning |
Daytime Lightning |
Mini Cloud-Atlas |
Visual Effects |
Sunrise, Sunset |
Okie Winters |
The Majestic Supercell |
Gallery of Outflow |
Wall Cloud Wall |
Tornadoes |
Hurricane Andrew |
Floods |
Unusual Weather Damage |
Fog & Mist |
Water Works |
All Hail |
Burnscapes |