Tornado Season Naturally Yields Tornado Videos, Storm Photos

Wedding photographer Brittani Preece captured these newlyweds
under the "mothership" cloud of a rotating supercell
thunderstorm in Amarillo, Texas.

It's tornado season, so it's time for a flurry of tornado videos to come out.

As always there are teams of storm chasers out there in the middle of the country, drawn like flies to every supercell thunderstorm that even hints that it might drop a twister.

It's a little unfair to a lot of stormchaser videos without permission. It's better to make you click on them yourself, so the videographers get the ad revenue. That's part of why they chase. Income. Can't blame them a bit.

So you're free to look at the videos on YouTube, and I'll have some hyperlinks in this post to a couple good ones.

One of the most intriguing is a drone video from Live Storm Media of a tornado zipping across open country in Oklahoma this week. If you look closely you can occassionally see little mini vortices on the ground amid the main swirl.

SevereStudios captured a lot of footage of a tornado near Dean, Texas. Tornadoes often don't have visible funnels that entirely reach the ground, though the actual tornado is on the ground. This one, like the Live Storm Media drone, has several vortexes within the main tornado. That's pretty common , to.

So in some of the the SevereStudios footage, you can see what appears to be maybe a weak tornado, punctuated by what looks like brief, intense spin-ups with in. Those are the vortices, and this type of tornado is known, naturally, as a multi-vortex tornado.

Still photography is often a big winner, too.

Wedding photographer Brittani Preece got some great shots of Morgan LeeAnn Monteiro and Manuel Monteiro, who had just tied the knot a couple weeks ago in Amarillo, Texas.

After the ceremony, a supercell thunderstorm loomed overhead. As we know, these storms can be dangerous, unleashing giant hail, damaging winds and tornadoes.

This particular supercell thunderstorm had something coveted by storm chasers: A mothership feature.

It's a large, rotating, layered part of a supercell, that, if the view is not blocked by rain, resembles a giant alien spaceship invading Planet Earth. Preece, being from Texas, is no dummy when it comes to Lone Star State storms, had the happy couple pose under the mothership clouds and got some spectacular shots, one of which you can see in the photo in this post.

Preece had to move quickly. High winds and heavy rain were fast approaching, so she got off some quick shots before everyone hustled indoors to continue the celebration, says the Houston Chronicle.

One more video we can show: This one shows a spectacular tornado in Romania this week that overturned a bus. It's dash cam footage: