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StormArtz

2 years

New Pinned Yo! I'm Alex! I am a sky photographer and digital artist! I photograph the Desert Southwest and the Monsoon, and for now I paint tornadoes until I can chase the plains! Here's some of my weather art:

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4 months

hour long study paint of the Greenfield tornado added the burning windmill as well

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4 months

STRONGEST #TORNADO IN HISTORY? 300+ mph wind confirmed in Greenfield, Iowa tornado. Check out this new drone footage from this prior to this measurement! WATCH:

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2 months

Ok im listening to the whole thing and OH MY GOD its incredible. Ive never watched/listened to any rally before. The crowd is so energetic Harris has to wait! Ten thousand people screaming "WHEN WE FIGHT, WE WIN" in unison! Chills.

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FULL SPEECH: Kamala Harris and Tim Walz deliver a historic and electrifying speech in a packed arena in Philadelphia – their first event together since Walz became Harris' running mate. This is worth watching in its entirety.

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2 years

Nighttime tornadoes are truly terrifying. so I painted one since it's almost Halloween!

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2 years

Double Bolt! Taken from my patio in Las Vegas, NV. #Vegasweather #NVwx #StormHour

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@Tempest_Artz

2 months

My favorite weather artwork is this one, Inside the eye III. Based on footage/images of Hurricane Michael's eye.

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1 year

My god, the damage in Matador, TX is very, very bad. Horrible situation ongoing there. Val and Amy Castor's stream showing Debarked Trees, Granulated Debris, and leveled structures.

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@Tempest_Artz

5 months

2024: the year of insane sky shit

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@Tempest_Artz

2 years

Why are tornadoes trending? I like drawing them tho🌪️

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@Tempest_Artz

1 year

My best tornado painting yet!

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2 years

painted a magical Monsoon scene. Can't wait for it to start!

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1 year

It's may, I hope to see my 1st tornado this month. Until then, I'll keep drawing them!

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@Tempest_Artz

2 years

How does the indoor tornado work? I have a box fan aimed at a curved wall of blankets to provide broad rotation. Under the red sheet is a tube connected to my fog machine, which makes the vortex visible. A ceiling fan set to max, in reverse, provides an updraft.

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@Tempest_Artz

2 years

at around 1:50 there appears to be headlights of a vehicle flying hundreds of feet in the air around the funnel for several seconds. Truly disturbing and terrifying.

Max Olson

@MesoMax919

2 years

Harrowing series of events last night, watched a tornado form on the Mississippi River and immediately become strong to violent right as it came into Rolling Fork, MS. VIDEO LINK -

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4 months

massive convective burst in the eyewall of #HurricaneBeryl , cloud tops nearing -85C!

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@Tempest_Artz

2 years

Lightning + The STRAT tower! #VegasWeather #Monsoon2022

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@Tempest_Artz

2 years

painted a classic stovepipe over the open plains

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4 months

Beryl. why are you getting that look again.

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6 months

ITS GONNA BE MAY!! Here's some tornado paintings Ive done to celebrate

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@Tempest_Artz

1 year

Helicopter flyover showing major ground scouring from the Matador, TX tornado. All grass has been removed in the path.

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@Tempest_Artz

1 year

I'll always stand on the opinion that the Philadelphia MS tornado of 2011 was likely one of the strongest in history at it's peak. With a core diameter of less than 100m and a forward speed of 100km/h, it scoured two-foot deep trenches. A bulldozer would take days to do that.

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@Tempest_Artz

2 years

What a storm! Bolts were flying all over the place. #VegasWeather #Monsoon2022

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1 year

MY FIRST TORNADO! A weak spin-up west of Grant, NE on the CO/NE border. I've yearned for 20 years to finally see one.

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@Tempest_Artz

2 years

STOP DRIVING INTO TORNADOES Are y'all trying to have a 5/31/2013 repeat?

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@Tempest_Artz

2 years

My indoor tornado behaves a lot like Andover '22. Reminds me of @ReedTimmerAccu 's drone footage!

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@Tempest_Artz

2 years

Awesome vortex dynamics and beautiful patterns

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@Tempest_Artz

1 year

An early-morning storm rocked the Las Vegas valley and produced some of the most INSANE lightning strikes I have ever seen. #nvwx #Vegasweather #Monsoon2023

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@Tempest_Artz

2 years

Some more video of the Indoor Tornado Really cool double-layer structure and outer helical bands at one point

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@Tempest_Artz

2 years

Would anyone be interested in me making a tutorial thread/timelapse drawing of how I draw my tornadoes?

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2 years

what the hell is this lmfao

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5 months

Northern lights over my house in Las Vegas! Literal Backyard Aurora!! #vegasweather #northernlights #aurora @LasVegasLocally

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@Tempest_Artz

5 months

MAJOR ground scouring from the El Dorado-Greta tornado. #okwx

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@Tempest_Artz

1 year

Closeup of Cat 5 Hurricane #Otis 's eye shows intense gravity waves and INSANE amounts of lightning. This hurricane is still undergoing extreme intensification. #HurricaneOtis

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@Tempest_Artz

2 years

30 mins later.....not bad!

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@Tempest_Artz

2 years

im gonna draw a tornado with my mouse and see how well i do

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3 years

A little doodle of a tornado

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@Tempest_Artz

3 months

Lightning blasted the mountains north of Las Vegas early in the AM today. You can even see the landing points in some shots! #Vegasweather #nvwx #Monsoon2024 @LasVegasLocally

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3 months

Probably the most vertical lightning strike ive captured. Just straight up and down

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6 months

this xkcd comic hits us weather geeks at the atomic level

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@Tempest_Artz

2 years

Hurricane Ian is producing insane amounts of lightning in its eyewall now. #Ian #HurricaneIan

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6 months

The Hawley, TX tornado looked almost identical to the infamous Elie, MB F5.

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2 years

Laser scan of vortex formation

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6 months

A painting based off of how I saw the Total Eclipse in Ohio!

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6 months

RRFS decided to wipe Kansas off the map I guess

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@Tempest_Artz

8 months

was watching Basehunters' footage of the Ashby tornado and these ultra-compact subvortices are just unbelievable. They're moving so fast the camera barely registers them. Wouldn't surprise me at all if those little vortices were harboring EF5-level winds at that instant

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StormArtz

@Tempest_Artz

3 years

Yo, #wxtwitter ! It's the guy who draws tornadoes and lightning storms! I've decided to make an alt acct exclusively focused on storms and photography, so come and check me out if you'd like! Here's some of my work!

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@Tempest_Artz

4 months

Made this back in 2022, but cant help but notice how similar it looks to Rolling Fork

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@Tempest_Artz

8 months

Going through my older art folders and found a Supercell painting from 2020!

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@Tempest_Artz

2 years

what the hell were those two drivers doing and what happened to them

RadarOmega

@RadarOmega

2 years

INCREDIBLE TORNADO INTERCEPT by @BradArnoldWX using a mobile @cyclonePORT unit! A sharp pressure drop was captured near Taylor Landing, TX as the tornado and RFD were caught on video and live sensor data. Huge day for science! #TXwx

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@Tempest_Artz

1 year

10 years ago, the VIIRS satellite passed over Super Typhoon #Haiyan ( #Yolanda ) and gave us perhaps the most menacing satellite image in history. The eye of one of the strongest storms ever recorded on this planet.

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@Tempest_Artz

9 months

With El Nino predicted to rapidly decline and transition to La Nina, it looks like that this year could get interesting for Severe weather and Hurricane season.

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@Tempest_Artz

1 year

The images Hurricane Michael's eye at landfall were astonishing. I was inspired to paint a recreation a few years ago. Still one of my favorite pieces ive made!

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@Tempest_Artz

1 year

Testing out some new brushes, decided to draw a danger noodle

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8 months

another crazy clip is this sequence as it crosses the dirt road. Rips half a tree off, drags it 50ft along the ground, Ingests the trunk into the vortex core, LAUNCHES IT about 50 feet into the air, and fully debarks the part that made contact with the vortex core mid-flight.

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@Tempest_Artz

8 months

was watching Basehunters' footage of the Ashby tornado and these ultra-compact subvortices are just unbelievable. They're moving so fast the camera barely registers them. Wouldn't surprise me at all if those little vortices were harboring EF5-level winds at that instant

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2 months

2024 has been by far, the best year for sky photography. The Eclipse, Aurora Superstorm, my 1st tornadoes, Monsoon Insanity...this year has had it all

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@Tempest_Artz

2 years

Def one of the crazier HWRF runs I've seen. 152kt? Wow. #98S could be a monster.

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5 months

The Northern Lights from my backyard in Las Vegas!! It was an unbelievable spectacle. I can't believe it. @JimCantore @TamithaSkov @WxNB_ @LasVegasLocally @NWSVegas #vegasweather #solarstorm #Aurora #NorthernLights

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13 days

New microwave imagery of TS #Milton shows a low-level eye beginning to form.

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@Tempest_Artz

1 year

I drew a nighttime tornado last Halloween, so what should I do for this year? I'm thinking maybe drawing the Jarrell "Dead Man Walking" photo

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@Tempest_Artz

2 years

Painting destruction is kinda fun ngl

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1 year

Typhoon #Mawar has dramatically recovered from last night's EWRC and shear, and is now likely beginning a new period of Rapid Intensification. Will probably peak as a marvelous-looking Category 5 in the near future.

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@Tempest_Artz

2 years

EXTREME DUST DEVIL CHASING

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@Tempest_Artz

1 year

the eye of Super Typhoon #Mawar is one of the top 5 driest eyes ever recorded, up there with Goni (2020), Meranti (2016) and Nepartak (2015)

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1 year

@LasVegasLocally Saw them just north of Town on Cow Camp road! Beautiful red, magenta, and purple.

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2 months

Indoor Ashby? (My phone's focus hates it)

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@Tempest_Artz

2 years

The many forms of my indoor tornado. Tubes, Stovepipes, and even wedge-like!

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1 year

MAY 2023 BOUTTA BE WILD Y'ALL

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1 year

KABOOM!! Amazing lightning over Summerlin tonight. #nvwx #vegasweather

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2 years

Laser scans of my indoor tornado reveal a hurricane-like structure. Other forms ive seen are a dense circle or even concentric rings

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1 year

Sextuple bolt! This massive release of electricity lasted less than 0.5 seconds. #Lightning #Stormhour

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6 months

Just a bit of a signal

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1 year

Brilliant Pink and Red Northern Lights....in LAS VEGAS! Taken along Route 95 a few miles NW of town. #LasVegas #NorthernLights

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@Tempest_Artz

2 years

There is a giant uhhh...sausage.... in the sky right now

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2 years

Vortex interaction - breakdown - Multiple Vortices

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2 years

the beginning of the track from the Amory, MS tornado started in some open fields, where a narrow vortex core drilled down and caused likely ground scouring.

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@Tempest_Artz

24 days

Tropical Storm Helene is rapidly organizing and deepening as it approaches the Yucatan tonight. Likely will reach hurricane status tomorrow AM. An ominous view indeed. Got a bad feeling about this one.

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@Tempest_Artz

1 year

Woah, thats an intense one. Betcha that was pushing past 60 in the core there

Justin Berk

@JustinWeather

1 year

#dustdevil 🌪️ in Frederick MD on Wed May 24 ~3:30 PM. 🎥 Krista Novak 🚨 Siren unrelated. 👉 Winds 40 to 60 mph, but can get stronger. 👉 Height ~ 100 Ft ☀️ Sunny days, formed when ground gets very warm/air rising quickly, surrounding air rushes in forming the vortex.

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2 years

i love that the Lawnmower tornado guy got his own Float in a parade

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1 year

Super Typhoon #Mawar is clearing out its eye once more, revealing swirling mesovortices and the ocean below. On it's way to reaching Category 5 status.

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6 months

The incredible Corona and Flares of the Total Solar Eclipse from Wapakoneta, Ohio. I traveled all the way from Las Vegas to see this event! Despite my rudimentary setup and hazy skies, I got the dream shot. #SolarEclipse2024 #Eclipse #OHwx @spann @JimCantore @spahn711

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@Tempest_Artz

2 years

One of the craziest lightning bolts Ive captured. All from my patio! #Vegasweather #Monsoon2022

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@Tempest_Artz

2 months

I need art references! Its been a while, gimme ur best shots of 2024's insane weather! Tornadoes, Supercells, Lightning, Auroras...anything else! Wanna make more drawings and studies soon.

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@Tempest_Artz

2 years

an older tornado paint from june 2020 meso + wedge

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2 years

This severe season sucks Making my own photogenic tors

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6 months

Debarked trees with metal wrapped around them according to EMS per news 9. Yikes.

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2 years

painted a dramatic stormy sunset!

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5 months

Going by DOW data ive seen two EF5 strength tornadoes in two days. Greenfield IA and Eldorado OK

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1 year

The drinking fountain in Wray, CO shoots about 30 feet straight up.

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2 years

Vertical scan of the vortex in B/W and Radar. A lot of cool details right at the base.

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5 months

Man, of all the music they couldve liscenced or created for Twisters, why did it have to be fuckin COUNTRY. Yuck. Like i get it its the midwest but a high-action tornado movie deserves a banger score like the Original. Gimme some hard rock, fast orchestra, maybe a lil 80s.

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@Tempest_Artz

1 year

Considering it's relatively small core diameter, and its rapid forward speed, it likely managed to carve that trench in perhaps less than 2 seconds. That requires unbelievable wind velocities, likely way higher than 300mph. I can't even imagine what it'd do to a structure.

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2 years

My top 3 lightning shots of #Monsoon2022 ! I wasn't able to go very far from my house, but I didn't need to! #VegasWeather

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@Tempest_Artz

2 years

I even caught faint helical vortices! Almost exactly like Andover. So cool!

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@Tempest_Artz

2 years

My indoor tornado behaves a lot like Andover '22. Reminds me of @ReedTimmerAccu 's drone footage!

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5 months

The Eldorado-Duke OK tornado was truly magnificent. A childhood dream come true! #okwx #StormHour

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2 years

a very quick sketch of a big CG and some hills

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2 years

A collection of Lidar images of my indoor tornado! Using a laser, I was able to create these images that resemble Doppler Radar.

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4 months

the RAXPOL mobile radar framed up with the Eldorado wedge between two power poles

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27 days

@ReedTimmerUSA The merch idea is fantastic, but as an artist it hurts to see AI being used. Theres tons of us who would gladly help design some awesome merch for Team Dominator in a jiffy. Myself included!

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6 months

Just a bit of a signal

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2 years

Storm chasers in the middle of a field during a lightning barrage:

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2 years

@NWSSPC

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