Tornado, Rainbow, Lightning and Storm

Incredibly colorful supercell time lapse with a white rope tornado, brilliant double rainbow and intense lightning activity as this storm journeys through the magic hour lighting. This video is composed of over 5000 still images animated to create a time lapse. Several events of isolated thunderstorm activity are used to tell the story of a single thunderstorm and associated phenomenon. All storms were photographed between April 1st and July 1st of 2015 in tornado Alley except the rope tornado footage from 5-17-13.

- Blue skies soar over an increasingly unstable atmosphere as tornado watch is issued.
- An isolated thunderstorm rises high into the atmosphere and precipitation begins to fall.
- Sheets of rain reflect, refract and disperse sunlight into the visible color spectrum.
- Cloud-to-ground lightning activity increases as the storm begins to rotate.
- A tornado warning is issued. Source: Radar indicated rotation.
- The mesocyclone lowers from the base of the storm.
- A confirmed tornado has been reported.
- The explosive updrafts flatten into the ceiling of the troposphere.
- At sunset, the isolated thunderstorm creates a dance of light and color.
- Decreasing sunlight reveals more and more lightning activity.
- Bursts of cloud-to-air lightning reach out into the naked sky
- Downstream, mammatus clouds sail underneath the storms anvil.
- A full moon emerges from behind the storm clouds
- Icy cirrus cloud crystals refract moonlight into a lunar halo.