Storm Chaser: A Photographer's Journey



Jim Reed, an award-winning extreme weather photographer, gathers some of his most amazing photos in a new book "Storm Chasers: A Photographer's Journey." The full-time storm chaser has spent nearly two decades documenting almost every type of meteorological phenomena, including tornadoes, blizzards, electrical storms, and floods.
(Jim Reed )


Hurricane Katrina nears Gulfport, Mississippi, during astronomical twightlight on August 28, 2005.


A tornado threatens Mulvane, Kansas, on June 12, 1994. A few hours before this photo was snapped, I was visiting with actress Dawn Wells, who played Mary Ann on the popular TV series Gilligan's Island.


A severe thunderstorm and lightning strike over southern Sedgwick County, Kansas on July 25, 1998.


A vibrant double rainbow shimmers on the backside of a tornadic thunderstorm in Cowley County, Kansas on June 8, 1998.


An unmarked Kansas state trooper throws his car into reverse to escape the path of a tornado near Pretty Prairie, Kansas, on April 11, 2002. It was the first Kansas twister of the season


Warm temperatures and dust particles in the atmosphere produce this stunning sky over Columbia Metropolitan Airport in South Carolina. Shot on December 31, 1999, is was the final sunset before the new millennium.


A motorist in a pickup truck attempts to escape the path of a tornadic mesocyclone rotating above central Kansas on May 24, 1998.


Magenta-colored lightning erupts over the National Weather Service in Wichita, Kansas


An octagon of frozen precipitation hangs momentarily from a stop sign before falling to the ground following a major ice storm in eastern Kansas on January 31, 2002.

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Fotograaf: Jim Reed}