Waurika OK, Tornado

Photo Courtesy of NSSL

Waurika OK, 30 May 1976, looking W. This photo was taken within a few seconds of the one below, and from the opposite direction (along the same roadway). Here, much of the sunlight is absorbed by tens of thousands of feet of thunderstorm cloud material, leaving the tornado "backlit," or silhouetted, by the light to the west.