A. T. Willett Photographer Severe Weather and Lightning Image Gallery

The lightning gallery, tornado gallery and severe weather gallery are all available for stock usage. Fine Art Pints are also available of these lightning and tornado photographs. If you need instant purchase and download, you can click on the images bellow, you will be taken to the Alamy.com web site. You can view larger images, caption, available size information, you can also use their pricing calculator to figure out usage cost. You can also purchase and download any photograph listed on this page 24/7. If you are a new or current customer and would like to contact us about usage please call us or send us an email with the image numbers you are interested in purchasing and let us know how you want to use these images.

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huge lightning bolt away from storm Arizona
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huge lightning bolt hit near houses in Benson Arizona
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lightning bolts hit peaks in Catalina mountain range
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lightning at dusk over the Tucson Valley
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Lightning at dusk over Tucson Arizona, 1983. This two to three minute time exposure of lightning also captured the silhouettes of two people watching a single cell thunderstorm at dusk over the Tucson Valley. Shot from a vantage point high in the Santa Catalina Mountain range. At the time this image was shot three copper smelters were in full production in the Southern Arizona desert and the microscopic dust particulates generated by copper production would create the brilliant orange sunsets experienced in Arizona at the time.
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lightning bolts Siera Vista Arizona
LIGHTNING 014		 Huge close lightning bolts near Siera Vista Arizona
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LIGHTNING 018		 desert lightning storm with A-10 aircraft at night
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lightning strike hit less than 200 feet from camera Sells Arizona
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Huge lightning bolt crashes down within 200 feet of camera near Sells Arizona USA Microscopic Dust from the Volcano Mt Pintubo floating in the upper atmosphere makes sunset and sky extremely orange. Lightningsmith's photographer Jeff smith was standing right next to me when this very close strike hit. We got back into the car after that.

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LIGHTNING 022		 Lightning storm over the city of Tucson Arizona from windy point
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Lightning storm over the city of Tucson Arizona from windy point
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Huge lightning bolt hit near houses in Benson Arizona
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Huge bolt in a rare winter time thunderstorm. Shot in a February storm it is rare to see lightning like this in the winter time. After this storm passed we were caught in a blinding hail shaft from this same storm crossing Interstate 10 while driving back to Tucson. It was almost scary. There was so much hail on the road we had to go into four wheel drive.

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Severe thunderstorm over Tucson Arizona USA with lightning bolt coming out of top of thunderhead to the ground. The Saguaro cactus in the foreground is so sharp you can see the cactus needles. The storm top is around 22,000 feet which makes this a very long lightning strike. You always wish for a huge lightning bolt to coming from the top of the storm but it rarely happens. That night I could see green flashes of bright light on the horizon as some of these bolts struck power transformers down on Oracle road. This was a 100 megabyte drum scan from a 35mm file.

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Severe thunderstorm over the New University of Arizona Student Union under construction. These bolts were huge and close, lightning was hitting in every direction, I was sitting in my car it was so close. This was one of the few good shots I was able to get in 2001 as it was a lame year for lightning.

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A. T. Willett Storm Cloud Photo Gallery

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Large White Tornado 15 miles NE of Gruver Texas over green wheat field shot from the window of a moving truck windmill and farm house show scale of Tornado rated F3 on the Fujita scale. This tornado destroyed a large farm in the Oklahoma Panhandle no deaths or serious injuries reported with this storm. This tornado lasted about 40 minutes and mostly passed over open pastures.

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Tornado 011 This tornado is a digital composite of real tornado elements the tornado is a rope tornado which touched down North east of McClain Texas and the foreground image is from a wheat field in the North Texas Panhandle area.

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Tornado 021 Wizard of Oz like rope tornado on a scary wicked sky in the Kansas Plains
Tornado 022 Tornado on the New Mexico High country touches down out of a rotating supercel thunderstorm.
 
Verticle Panorama of Lightning storm over downtown Tucson, Arizona skyline. Shot on a Hasselbald XPAN 35mm Panorama camera showing film strip and edge numbers Shot on Fuji Velvia. This was a difficult shot to shoot because the XPAN camera has a 30 second bulb time. This was the one major draw back of this camera which otherwise would be a great lightning camera. I sold and this was the only shot I really liked from the camera. The newer version has a longer bulb time. This was a 100 megabyte drum scan.
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
   
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
Lightning 021 Severe Lightning with huundred of bolts per hour storm rolls across the Rincon Mountian Range into south east Tucson Arizona
Lightning 022 Lightning bolts from a severe thunderstorm crash down against the sky at dusk, shot from the east side of Tucson Arizona
Lightning 023 Located in the Santa Catalina Mountain Range a view from Windy Point at dusk of a summer monsoon lightning storm moving across the city of Tucson and the Tucson Valley, Arizona, USA
Huge waves from Hurricane Nora approaching Rocky Point Mexico Fork Driven into tree by killer Saragosa Texas F4 rated Tornado Cumulonimbus clouds in Tornado Producing Supercell over Anthony Kansas

© A. T. Willett 1983-2008