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Jim Tang

@wxmann

3 months

I photographed some fireflies for the first time yesterday night in the woods of NW Missouri! 🪰

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Jim Tang

@wxmann

4 months

Ok this wins

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4 months

Aurora boreal desde Stonehedge.

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Jim Tang

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1 year

The shot of a lifetime, and the forecast success I will never forget. Upward lightning bolts from Shiprock yesterday... I could not believe what I was watching in front of my eyes! The gamble of the 11hr drive paid off and then some! #nmwx @NewMexico

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7 years

#Lightning above the Golden Gate Bridge, 9/11/17. #BayArea #CAwx #StormHour

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Jim Tang

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2 years

Snow coats the tops of peaks at Big Sur this morning. ❄️ #cawx @NWSBayArea @JimCantore

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Jim Tang

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1 year

California auroras just hit different.

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Jim Tang

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2 months

Yikes #Houston

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Jim Tang

@wxmann

3 years

“ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED?” —the sky, probably

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Jim Tang

@wxmann

2 years

Looking through my DSLR photos now. Gilmore City tornado #iawx ... what a day.

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Jim Tang

@wxmann

3 years

Finger of God. East of Sudan #txwx earlier today.

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Jim Tang

@wxmann

2 years

Mothership over the Badlands, earlier today... what a storm! #sdwx @NWSRapidCity

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Jim Tang

@wxmann

2 years

I went to the Sierra Nevada this past weekend to see the aftermath of three weeks of high-impact snowstorms. Before | After

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Jim Tang

@wxmann

4 years

Majestic dusk thunderstorm yesterday over White Sands National Park after it dropped ping-pong ball hail in the dune fields. One of the most incredible scenes I have ever witnessed. Unforgettable! #nmwx #stormhour

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Jim Tang

@wxmann

1 year

Here are some photos of the Superbloom this year in California. Happy Earth Day! w/ @PezmanWx

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Jim Tang

@wxmann

1 year

So is this the first photograph of a lightning bolt hitting a point below sea level? Badwater Basin, the lowest point in North America, is on the right side of the image. @DeathValleyNPS @JimCantore #cawx

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Jim Tang

@wxmann

4 years

Comet #NEOWISE photographed over Emerald Bay this morning. This is now a comet photography account.

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Jim Tang

@wxmann

2 years

Last night's monsoon storms over Tucson produced a bit of lightning... #azwx #monsoon2022 @NWSTucson

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Jim Tang

@wxmann

2 years

Holy chit

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Jim Tang

@wxmann

3 years

This has got to be one of the craziest haboob photos I’ve seen in the US, ever

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3 years

Near Tribune, Kansas today

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Jim Tang

@wxmann

1 year

The Half Dome bolt. Shot yesterday at dusk. Maybe one of the more difficult bolts I've captured from a physical positioning + targeting combination. But already one of my favorites. #cawx @YosemiteNPS @NWSHanford

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Jim Tang

@wxmann

2 years

Quick edit. What a tornado. Near Crowell #txwx earlier today. Career chase.

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Jim Tang

@wxmann

5 years

I still can't get over last Sunday's storm chase. Here's an after dark shot of striated structure when a supercell began to merge with a squall line west of Atwood, KS. #kswx #StormHour

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Jim Tang

@wxmann

2 years

Another video of the Gilmore City tornado. Formed right behind us! Top intercept of my chasing career. #iawx

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Jim Tang

@wxmann

4 years

Today was a fun, electric day at the Grand Canyon. ⚡️ Welcome back, monsoon. #azwx #stormhour

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Jim Tang

@wxmann

3 years

Monument Valley went off with a lightning storm last night! Was amazing to watch bolts illuminate the iconic rock towers. #azwx

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Jim Tang

@wxmann

3 years

The Grand Canyon came through in a big way again yesterday evening with a second round of thunderstorms! #azwx @NWSFlagstaff @GrandCanyonNPS @JimCantore

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Jim Tang

@wxmann

2 years

The snow-covered Panamint Range in @DeathValleyNPS . Always impressive, but even moreso when they are snowcapped like this, which I have never seen before.

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Jim Tang

@wxmann

3 years

More footage from the Seldon tornado earlier today. #kswx

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Jim Tang

@wxmann

2 years

Third video I’m posting tonight. Large wedge forming east of Gilmore City after the first tornado occluded. #iawx

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Jim Tang

@wxmann

2 years

One of my top 10 chases all time. Haboob. That's the tweet. #kswx

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Jim Tang

@wxmann

4 months

Back of camera, looking SOUTH from Nebraska. This is madness #aurora @TamithaSkov

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Jim Tang

@wxmann

7 years

Surreal, smoky sunset in SF earlier today, thanks to the #NorthBayFires / #WineCountryFires #CAwx

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Jim Tang

@wxmann

3 years

Aliens sure do like dust. Near Roswell, NM earlier tonight. #nmwx

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Jim Tang

@wxmann

5 years

Went up to the Grand Canyon yesterday in hopes of a storm and wasn't disappointed! Maybe one of the most beautiful atmospheric displays I have seen. #azwx #stormhour

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Jim Tang

@wxmann

4 years

This bad boy in the Badlands made the day today! Incredibly fun day. No bust here! #sdwx #StormHour

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Jim Tang

@wxmann

2 years

A thunderstorm over Utah yesterday. #utwx #monsoon2022

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Jim Tang

@wxmann

1 year

Easily radar signature of the year

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Jim Tang

@wxmann

2 months

The 2024 Hurricane Season

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Jim Tang

@wxmann

1 year

Didn't have a chance to post this yesterday, but here's a photo of aurora pillars from near Orland, CA (latitude 39.6ºN) the other night during the G4 geomagnetic storm. What an unforgettable night. #AuroraBorealis

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Jim Tang

@wxmann

3 years

Incredible landspout. Near Firestone #cowx 510 pm @NWSBoulder

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Jim Tang

@wxmann

1 month

Fire tornado in progress, #ParkFire

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Jim Tang

@wxmann

1 year

THIS. IS. CALIFORNIA.

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Jim Tang

@wxmann

1 year

Absolute perfection.

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Jim Tang

@wxmann

1 year

The highest elevation lightning bolt I have ever taken. 12,000 ft, mere miles from the Continental Divide on Trail Ridge Rd in @RockyNPS yesterday as a thunderstorm rolled in just after sunset. This completes my hat trick for National Park bolts in 2023! #cowx

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Jim Tang

@wxmann

4 years

Monster supercell after dark near Sublette, KS. Welcome back, May. #kswx #StormHour

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Jim Tang

@wxmann

3 years

Firestone #COwx landspout from earlier today. Have some better pics on my other camera but this wanted to show the structure with this storm especially as the precip started wrapping around the "meso".

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Jim Tang

@wxmann

3 years

Quick edit. Las Animas #cowx tonight. Incredible.

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Jim Tang

@wxmann

3 years

I was rushed going thru my photos last night since an MCS was bearing down on me. Here’s another, clearer photo showing the tornado-structure combo. #ndwx

Jim Tang

@wxmann

3 years

Incredible mothership supercell with tornado underneath. Still in awe from this scene. East of Sidney #mtwx southwest of Alexander #ndwx earlier today 6/10/21.

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Jim Tang

@wxmann

3 years

Big rock GOOD. Water GOOD.

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Jim Tang

@wxmann

5 years

On the road so here’s a quick and dirty edit of the storm near McDonald, #kswx earlier this evening. The most insane structure I have ever seen. This is August! #stormhour @NWSGoodland

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Jim Tang

@wxmann

3 months

The RFD occlusion starts eating at the condensation in the mesocyclone while the stout tornado continues to churn below, revealing the true extent of the tornado cyclone

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Jim Tang

@wxmann

3 years

Was originally planning to post this tomorrow but couldn't wait. Just the most incredible striations once I got closer to Alexander with the occluding meso/tornado underneath. Maybe one of my personal favorite photos of all time. #ndwx

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Jim Tang

@wxmann

2 years

Shelf cloud approaching Downtown Oakland as viewed from the Berkeley Hills. #cawx #atmosphericriver @NWSBayArea

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Jim Tang

@wxmann

3 years

So apologies for the silence lately. I'm in Alaska this week. On Friday, I saw the aurora for the first time. And it was as every bit incredible as I thought it would be... and more! #stormhour #alaska #Auroraborealis

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Jim Tang

@wxmann

2 years

Lightning strikes the red rocks of Sedona above the Village of Oak Creek last night. What a storm and evening! #azwx #monsoon2022 @NWSFlagstaff @spann

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Jim Tang

@wxmann

1 year

Honestly one of the cooler things I've seen while out chasing. Dual rotating updrafts creating a "Christmas tree" like appearance near Sharon Springs, KS last Wed. The lowering on the bottom right next to the speed limit sign would drop a tornado not long after this shot.

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Jim Tang

@wxmann

3 years

Lightning storm strikes downtown Denver 7/30. Super stoked to get this shot. #cowx #DenverWeather @CReppWx @NWSBoulder

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Jim Tang

@wxmann

4 years

Mother Nature put on a display over San Francisco today! 🌈 #cawx #sanfrancisco #stormhour

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Jim Tang

@wxmann

4 months

I'm still in shock, unbelievable day and unforgettable intercept. Oluskee, OK, when it was at its violent stovepipe stage #okwx

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Jim Tang

@wxmann

3 years

These satellite images of the volcanic shock wave are absolutely nuts.

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@_TheSeaning

3 years

Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai #volcano is erupting again. Huge shockwave. Tsunami warning. Images courtesy Himawari-8

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Jim Tang

@wxmann

4 years

Beautiful lightning from a thunderstorm offshore San Francisco this morning 8/17! #cawx #sf @NWSBayArea

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Jim Tang

@wxmann

2 years

Large tornado SW of Gilmore City earlier this evening. DM for licensing. #iawx w/ @paigevincent09

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Jim Tang

@wxmann

1 month

Took a screencap, violent rotation in this fire tornado with a pyrosupercellular occlusion type process evident #ParkFire

Jim Tang

@wxmann

1 month

Fire tornado in progress, #ParkFire

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Jim Tang

@wxmann

4 years

South of Lance Creek, WY on Sunday. Absolute beast of a storm. Strongest inflow winds I've experienced, could barely open the car door, and the winds blew my glasses off! And to top it all off, gorgeous striated structure at sunset. #WYwx #StormHour

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Jim Tang

@wxmann

8 months

Four scenes I captured in 2023 that were rarely or never photographed before: * Snow overlooking Big Sur (2/23) * Naked-eye aurora in Central California (4/23) * Lightning striking Badwater Basin in Death Valley (5/20) * Upward lightning from Shiprock (9/2)

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Jim Tang

@wxmann

3 years

Mothership sunset #txwx

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Jim Tang

@wxmann

2 years

An electrified LP supercell passes over Two Buttes (bottom) at dusk, Tuesday 6/8. #cowx #stormhour

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Jim Tang

@wxmann

3 years

Cool boundary collision things.

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Jim Tang

@wxmann

4 months

The aurora in Phoenix mode last night. And that's when I realized I needed more than 14mm...

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Jim Tang

@wxmann

3 years

Lightning and the Grand Canyon, name a cooler duo. Shot yesterday 8/15 as an isolated storm formed at dusk and came south over the canyon. #azwx #stormhour @GrandCanyonNPS @NWSFlagstaff

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Jim Tang

@wxmann

3 years

Somehow managed a half decent aurora photo despite clouds and snowfall on-and-off all night, Bz that never went negative, and hemispheric power < 20 GW all night. That's a win. Never underestimating high latitude magic again. #iceland

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Jim Tang

@wxmann

4 years

Sunset supercell in the grasslands. Colorado, you have treated me well. #COwx #StormHour

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Jim Tang

@wxmann

3 years

Sunset and the mothership. Fieldton #txwx yesterday 5/16/21

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Jim Tang

@wxmann

23 days

A storm north of OKC at sunset yesterday.

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Jim Tang

@wxmann

2 years

Tornado SW of Crowell #txwx earlier, beautiful stovepipe.

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Jim Tang

@wxmann

7 months

Hwy 190 between Owens Valley and Death Valley is one of my favorite drives. Though the valleys are very low, the mountain passes in between rise over 5000' in elevation, so do get snow from time to time. Here's some pics after last year's snowstorm in the area!

Caltrans District 9

@Caltrans9

7 months

ATTN DRIVERS: @Caltrans9 has snowplows out on State Route 190 over Towne Pass in Death Valley National Park. Drivers are reminded to give snowplows the space they need to work. #DontCrowdthePlow These pictures are from between Owens Lake and Towne Pass on State Route 190.

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Jim Tang

@wxmann

4 years

When you’re 30 miles from civilization and in a dire spot. You take any miracle given to you.

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Jim Tang

@wxmann

4 years

Maybe the most harrowing moment of my life tonight. Watch the entire video. The shutter is from my camera.

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Jim Tang

@wxmann

3 years

Crazy inflow S St. Francis #kswx 722 pm

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Jim Tang

@wxmann

1 year

Nice hurricane you got there California

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Jim Tang

@wxmann

2 years

Cows photobombing a supercell, western OK on May 31 #okwx #StormHour

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Jim Tang

@wxmann

2 years

Save this, because this may be the only time you'll ever see rain in California, snow in Minnesota, and a hurricane in the Gulf on a weather map at the same time

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Jim Tang

@wxmann

4 years

North of Quanah #txwx earlier today. Incredible supercell. #stormhour

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Jim Tang

@wxmann

3 years

Looks like I have no choice but to keep spamming fall color tweets. #colorado #COLORado

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Jim Tang

@wxmann

4 months

Lifetime intercept #okwx

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Jim Tang

@wxmann

4 years

Finally getting to the photos I took today - surreal scene today in SF. #cawx #CAFires2020 #CAfire

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Jim Tang

@wxmann

2 years

How my Saturday started | How my Saturday ended Happy October! #fall

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Jim Tang

@wxmann

3 years

July 8, north of Phillip, SD after dark. Supercell took on incredible striations after dark. Was a challenge and a thrill to try to stay ahead! True high plains magic. #sdwx #stormhour

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Jim Tang

@wxmann

3 years

Yesterday's KS supercell as it was on its last legs near Scott City. #kswx #stormhour

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Jim Tang

@wxmann

4 years

This is no doubt one of the most insane model runs I've ever seen from the GFS. 365 inches of snow, 23" of liquid equivalent. Through just Day 10.

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Jim Tang

@wxmann

1 year

I did. Pics to come. Maybe best lightning chase of my life

Carter Murphy 💰8️⃣

@cartermurphy218

1 year

PLEASE TELL ME SOMEONE GOT THIS BOLT HITTING SHIPROCK

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Jim Tang

@wxmann

2 years

Fall in Colorado

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Jim Tang

@wxmann

3 years

Soo I bailed on the Las Vegas storm because I didn't want to core punch on a random, unfamiliar road and end up in the canyons with no service by myself. Anyway here's a pic of a mammatus sunset from tonight to prove I was indeed in NM. #nmwx

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Jim Tang

@wxmann

3 years

The mothership descends down on the Kansas hills south of Ellsworth. Another photo from yesterday to spam your feeds. #kswx #stormhour

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Jim Tang

@wxmann

2 years

Sierra Nevada. Plastered. #cawx

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Jim Tang

@wxmann

3 years

Absolutely one of the most ridiculous violent tornado radar signatures I’ve seen. 4/27/11 tier.

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Jim Tang

@wxmann

2 years

Absolutely amazing storm over Great Sand Dunes right now #cowx

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Jim Tang

@wxmann

3 years

Incredible mothership supercell with tornado underneath. Still in awe from this scene. East of Sidney #mtwx southwest of Alexander #ndwx earlier today 6/10/21.

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Jim Tang

@wxmann

3 years

Incredible sunset tonight near Booker, TX on the OK side of the border. Dying left split storm on the left, mammatus on the right, and if you look close enough you can see the supermoon at the bottom. #txwx #okwx

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Jim Tang

@wxmann

3 years

Backside eyewall in Houma. Violent wind gusts, strongest I’ve ever seen. #ida

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