Misc storm photos (larger size)

Here's the sequence of hurricane Andrew. This was a category 5 hurricane...meaning winds elevate to 175 MPH at times and rip off rooves of buildings and blow ships onto the land. A good pix of a Kansas tornado...maybe an F4 with winds above 200 MPH in cyclical fashion. These will cause a lot of damage in their pathway. Tornadoes may touch down for 10 minutes or move for 200 miles (3-4 hours) before they retract back into the anvil cloud. In the large Ohio tornado of 1974, supposedly 60 tornadoes touched down in a 24 hour period...and they were in 3 different states. Included is a dust storm. These often occur in desert areas and can wipe a car's paint job clean off. Here's the anvil cloud...super cells may be 60000 feet above the Earth's surface...with temperatures near the top 100 degrees below 0 farenheit.