Tornado and Rainbow Over Kansas...great shot!


	Tornado and Rainbow Over Kansas...great shot!

Newfman

5-8-2007 9:34 PM

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5-8-2007 9:53 PM

The REAL Napster

Wow. That is a great shot! What are the odds of that happening again?
/me runs for calculator

5-8-2007 11:27 PM

jatfla

Is it real??

5-8-2007 11:36 PM

The REAL Napster

Apparently so. He has lot's of other images on the site as well.

5-9-2007 12:29 AM

Deepti

wow!

5-9-2007 12:52 AM

skwirlinator

The Truth in ToTo conspiracy?

5-9-2007 2:25 PM

ericskiff

This clip was featured on today's Clipiversity podcast. Thanks for the great clip.

5-9-2007 8:37 PM

pink panther

Wow! Scary.....

Good picture though.

5-10-2007 1:05 PM

ramsesemerson

I'm from Kansas and I've NEVER seen anything like this...but in Kansas you get used to strange weather.

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The scene might have been considered serene if it weren't for the   
<A href="http://www.tornadoproject.com/faq/faq.htm" set="yes">tornado</A>.  
Last June in <A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kansas" set="yes">Kansas</A>,   
storm chaser <A href="http://www.mesoscale.ws/biography/" set="yes">Eric Nguyen</A> photographed  
this budding twister in a different light -- the light of a   
<A href="http://eo.ucar.edu/rainbows/">rainbow</A>.    
</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.astronet.ru/db/xware/msg/1206226">Pictured <A href="http://www.mesoscale.ws/pictures/tornadic/" set="yes">above</A>, a white tornado cloud descends from a dark storm cloud.    
The Sun, peaking through a clear   
patch of sky to the left, illuminates some buildings in the   
foreground.  Sunlight reflects off raindrops to form a   
<A href="http://www.astronet.ru/db/xware/msg/1169708" set="yes"><FONT color="#00a000">rainbow</FONT></A>.    
By coincidence, the   
<A href="http://www.tornadoproject.com/myths/myths.htm" set="yes">tornado</A> appears to end right   
<A href="http://www.reelclassics.com/Musicals/Wizoz/rainbow-lyrics.htm" set="yes">over the rainbow</A>.    
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