Dramatic Storm Clouds

Dramatic Storm Clouds

A huge tornado funnel cloud touches down in Orchard, Iowa, Tuesday, June 10, 2008 at 9:04 p.m. The Globe Gazette and Mitchell County Press News reported that Lori Mehmen of Orchard, took the photo from outside her front door. Mehmen said the funnel cloud came near the ground and then went back up into the clouds. Besides tree and crop damage, no human injuries were reported.

Dark clouds churn as a thunderstorm moves across a farm field, Sunday night, May 16, 1999, near De Soto, Iowa.

A thunderstorm approaches Bill Snyder Family Stadium during the first quarter of an NCAA college football game between Central Florida and Kansas State Saturday, Sept. 25, 2010 in Manhattan, Kan. Play was suspended in the game due to lightning

Grave markers are silhouetted by the a swirling cloud of a severe thunderstorm as it passes over a rural cemetery near Wellsville, Kan. Saturday, June 20, 2009. The cell had earlier produced a small tornado but caused no damage.

Storm clouds carrying heavy rain move across downtown Phoenix, Tuesday afternoon, Oct. 5, 2010. A series of powerful thunderstorms hit the area with high winds, hail and heavy rain

The eye of Hurricane Earl is seen in this photo taken from the International Space Station August 30, 2010

Dark clouds stretch across the skyline as Hurricane Ike approaches the Gulf of Mexico near Houston, Texas September 12, 2008.

A seagull flies in front of the Sydney city skyline as a storm approaches December 13, 2004

A flash of lightning illuminates the sky over the 2,500-year-old Ancient Parthenon temple, on the Acropolis hill during heavy rainfall in Athens, early June 28, 2010.